King Salman said, ‘We hope (Iran) changes its policy and negative behavior in the region, and it heads towards dialogue and cooperation. We are following with great concern the Iranian regime's destabilizing policy to security and safety in the region.’

Mehdi Mahdavikia recently wore a jersey featuring the flags of all FIFA member countries, including Israel, during a friendly match in Qatar.

Iran said nuclear talks that are set to resume Monday in Vienna should focus on lifting sanctions on the Islamic republic and "guarantees" the US will return to the fold. Negotiations to salvage the 2015 Iran nuclear deal resumed in late November, after a five-month hiatus following the election of...

Atomic Energy Organization of Iran director Mohammad Eslami said the enrichment levels were related to the needs of the country.

Iran has agreed to accept Ceylon tea in payment for a Sri Lankan oil debt valued at $251 million, Iranian media reported Thursday. "In recent negotiations, we reached a written deal to reimburse Iran's debt and interest on it in the form of a monthly shipment of tea produced in...

Officials have said the deal would become obsolete within weeks if Iran continued to step up its nuclear activities as it has been doing since 2019, a year after the United States left the landmark agreement and reimposed sanctions.

On Tuesday, Iran's military fired several missiles from land and sea as part of the five-day exercise.

Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett's government has called for a halt to international efforts to revive the Iran nuclear deal. The accord saw Iran agreeing to limits on its nuclear activities in exchange for sanctions relief from world powers.

Iran's envoy to Yemen, Hassan Eyrlou, died on Tuesday despite being flown out from the Huthi rebel-held capital in a rare exemption from a Saudi-led air blockade. Tehran blamed the "slow cooperation of certain countries" in facilitating Saturday's evacuation for Eyrlou's death.  

The General Authority for Statistics (GASTAT) released the Labor Market Publication, confirming that the unemployment rate of Saudis remained stable at +15 for Quarter 3 of this year at (11.3%) compared to the previous quarter.

Iran has said exporting vaccines manufactured by domestic producers was possible in a few months. Iran's deputy health minister for research and technical affairs Younes Panahi told Iranian media that some local producers made good progress and mass production of the vaccines will happen in the future. He said the...

The Canada-led International Coordination and Response Group had repeatedly asked Iran to meet in November to negotiate redress, but got no reply.

An Iran-linked hacking group attacked seven Israeli targets over a 24-hour period this week, an Israeli cyber-security firm said, in the latest episode of cyber-warfare between the rival states. The targets of the attack by the group called "Charming Kitten" included the Israeli "government and business sector", Tel Aviv-based Check...

South Korea's $2.5 million aid for programs supporting Afghan refugees in Iran has been hailed by the UN High Commissioner for Refugees and UNICEF. Iranian media reports said that South Korea's Ambassador to Iran Yun Kahghyeon on Tuesday signed an agreement of cooperation with the two UN agencies in the...

The Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency had been seeking to replace the devices which Iran says were damaged in a June attack it blames on Israel. The IAEA said the two sides "will continue to work on remaining outstanding safeguards issues with the aim of resolving them".

The deal has been on life support since 2018, when former president Donald Trump pulled the US out of the accord.

International diplomats have been cloistered in a Vienna hotel discussing how to salvage a deal that was intended to prevent Iran from developing an atomic bomb.  Can the landmark 2015 agreement be saved or has time run out to revive the deal? What's at stake?  Talks to rescue the agreement...

“Iran intends to take advantage of the EU experience to improve agricultural commerce in Iranian villages with emphasis on women’s employment,” an Iranian official said.

Iran's Vice President for parliamentary affairs, Mohammad Hosseini said his country stood by Syrian people and government to the best of its ability to help preserve its territorial integrity.

The 2022-2023 budget allocates about $5 billion to boost "defense capacities and strategic research", up from $4 billion the previous year.

The G7 on Sunday said time was running out for Iran to agree to a deal to curb its nuclear ambitions and warned Russia about the consequences of invading Ukraine. Foreign ministers from the world's richest nations have held a two-day meeting in Liverpool, northwest England, seeking to present a...

The animals that may be banned under the proposed law include 'crocodiles, turtles, snakes, lizards, cats, mice, rabbits, dogs and other unclean animals as well as monkeys.' This has led to protests and ridicule, especially on social media.

Negotiation is the first and foremost step, but not the last one, Nasr said, noting that there should be considerable agreements and outcomes to let the trust grow.

Iran plans to double exports to regional countries within the four-year term of President Ebrahim Raisi, though the target is achievable even within the next two years and a half, said the country's Deputy Foreign Minister for Economic Diplomacy Affairs Mehdi Safari. Safari, while presenting a report of the 100-day...

The sanctions announced by the US Treasury and State Department targeted government officials and organizations.

Iran expressed hopes Monday to turn the page in its ties with the United Arab Emirates during a rare visit by a senior official from the Gulf Arab country. UAE National Security Advisor Sheikh Tahnoun bin Zayed Al-Nahyan arrived in the country earlier Monday.

The landmark 2015 nuclear accord was initially agreed between Iran and Britain, China, France, Germany, Russia and the United States. But it began unravelling in 2018 when then US president Donald Trump pulled out and reimposed sanctions, prompting Iran to start exceeding limits on its nuclear program the following year.

Iraqi fishermen live in constant fear of arrest by Iran or Kuwait for mistakenly straying across frontiers.

Ebrahim Raisi, who took office in August, listed inflation, high prices, and tax evasion as among the top challenges facing his government. He was speaking during a television interview on Sunday, December 5, marking his first 100 days in power.

A senior Emirati security official is due in Iran on Monday, ISNA news agency reported, in the latest outreach between the two countries since a downgrading of ties five years ago. UAE National Security Adviser Sheikh Tahnoun bin Zayed Al-Nahyan "will arrive tomorrow in Tehran" at the invitation of secretary...

The explosion was heard in the skies over the Iranian city of Badroud, just 20 kilometres from the nuclear plant

The seventh round of nuclear talks ended Friday after five days in Vienna, with delegations returning to their national capitals and expected to go back to Austria next week. Iran had paused the talks in June following the election of ultraconservative President Ebrahim Raisi.

The deputy minister Mehdi Sadeqi Niaraki argued that production growth is one of the main strategies to develop the Islamic Republic, adding that the Statistical Centre of Iran and the Central Bank of the Islamic Republic of Iran have announced in a different report 5.5 percent and 6.1 percent production...

Negotiations in Vienna aimed at reviving the Iran nuclear deal are to be suspended Friday, Iranian media said, as European diplomats expressed "disappointment and concern" at the latest proposals from Iran. Iran said it has submitted two draft proposals for the nuclear agreement, which has been in tatters since the...

Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian has said that Tehran has gone to Vienna with serious determination and a clear and rational agenda. Iranian media reports said that Amirabdollahian made these remarks in a telephone conversation with his Japanese counterpart Yoshimasa Hayashi on Thursday evening. Regarding the ongoing nuclear talks in...

Iran's top diplomat said Thursday that an agreement to revive his country's nuclear deal with world powers was "within reach" but that this depended on the goodwill of the West. Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian also said on Twitter that negotiations in Vienna were "proceeding with seriousness" and that the removal...

Chief Executive of Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) Air Marshal Arshad Malik announced that the PIA will start direct flights from Karachi to Mashad in Iran from 1 Jan 2022. Iranian local media reports said that Arshad Malik was speaking in a meeting with Ambassador of Iran in Pakistan Mohammad Ali...

After half a century hidden away, the royal racers are back on show, with the Iran Historical Car Museum drawing in thousands since it opened to the public in recent weeks.

President Ebrahim Raisi's comments in a phone call with Emmanuel Macron on Monday evening were his first after the reopening of the talks in Vienna earlier in the day.

French President Emmanuel Macron has called on his Iranian counterpart Ebrahim Raisi to return to fulfilling Tehran's obligations under the 2015 nuclear deal "without delay".

The government has shown its willingness and seriousness by sending a quality team known to all. If the other side shows the same willingness, we will be on the right track to reach an agreement, Iran's foreign ministry spokesman said.

Two leading Iranian banks have welcomed a decision by a Hague-based tribunal to order Bahrain to pay them more than $270 million in compensation for its 2015 closure of a bank they had supported.

A US Navy arrived also helped the Iranian seamen with food, water, and medical care.

The riverbed has been the rallying spot for farmers and other people from across Isfahan province protesting the lack of water. Drought is a cause, but they also accuse the authorities of diverting water from the city to supply a neighboring province, which is also desperately short on supplies.

Riot police were deployed in force Saturday in the Iranian city of Isfahan, a day after violent protests over the drying up of a lifeblood river.

The rail cooperation document was signed between the three countries on the sidelines of the summit of ECO member-states.

The volume of trade with the ECO countries - Turkey, Afghanistan, the Republic of Azerbaijan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Pakistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. - also increased by 43 percent in comparison to the corresponding period last year, IRNA reported.

The visit by Ali Bagheri, Tehran's chief nuclear negotiator, is the first to Gulf Arab states by an official of the new government of Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi. The UAE downgraded ties with Iran in 2016 amid rivalry between its ally Saudi Arabia and the Islamic republic.

The Islamic republic shot down Ukraine International Airlines flight PS752 shortly after take-off from its capital Tehran on January 8, 2020.

Rafael Grossi, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said the talks he held in Tehran on Tuesday were "inconclusive" despite being "constructive".