Iran has started exporting crude through its first terminal in the Gulf of Oman, bypassing the Strait of Hormuz to the north

Nahid Taghavi is being held in Tehran's Evin prison, awaiting sentencing on a 'security charge'

Iran put anti-riot measures in place in Tehran on Wednesday following continued water protests in Khuzestan

Iran decided last month to cut power supplies to Iraq, saying the it owes it more than $6 billion in arrears. That has left Wataniya unable to keep up with soaring demand in the country.

The UAE’s oil production limit fixed by the OPEC+ in 2018 is not a reflection of its full production capacity, which rose from 3.17 million barrels per day in that year to over 3.8 MBPD in April 2020.

This month, power generation impacted by drought results in rolling blackouts in the capital Tehran and other large cities

You might think the family business did not seem so inviting to young Iranian filmmaker Panah Panahi, given that his acclaimed father has faced years of persecution at the hands of the authorities.

Iran's national railway company on Saturday denied having been hit by a cyber attack following reports of disruptions at train stations across the country, local media reported. The announcement came a day after Fars news agency reported "unprecedented chaos" at stations with hundreds of trains delayed or cancelled. In the...

The plant was off-grid for two weeks, leading to power cuts in the country Officials blamed 'a technical fault' for the shutdown Iran's only nuclear power plant has been brought back online, its manager said early Monday, after two weeks off-grid amid a power shortage and rolling blackouts across the...

Iran’s non-oil exports rose by 50% in the first quarter of the current Iranian year, its Minister of Industry, Mines and Trade Alireza Razm Hosseini said The latest Iranian new year started on March 21, and the numbers Razm Hosseini gave are from the first three months since then Iran’s...

Official data put Covid toll in Iran at 84,000 Tehran, nine other cities highest-risk places Iran has struggled to keep the Covid pandemic under control, and now it must prepare for a worse case of the virus hitting them. President Hassan Rouhani on Saturday said that Iran will be hit...

Authorities say they try to convince victims' families to pardon death row offenders UN rights chief Michelle Bachelet had said over 80 child offenders are on death row   Tehran: Iran’s use of the death penalty for crimes committed as minors does not mean it violates human rights, a senior...

Lapid is flying to Rome to see Blinken The meeting comes as Biden moves ahead with fresh talks with Iran US Secretary of State Antony Blinken meets Israel's new top diplomat Yair Lapid on Sunday, in the United States' first face-to-face meeting with the freshly installed government that seeks a...

Semnan Province, the administrative region to the east of Tehran, is home to the largest number of licensed facilities Iran approved cryptocurrency mining as a legal activity two years ago Iran has issued licenses to 30 cryptocurrency mining centers, the Financial Tribune revealed this week, quoting official figures published on...

The 2015 deal saw Iran accept curbs on its nuclear capabilities Trump unilaterally withdrew three years later Iran on Friday said world powers must take any final decisions to revive the 2015 nuclear deal, after France and the United States suggested that time was running out. "The opposing sides are...

Rebels are seeking to seize control of Marib and its surrounding oil fields Fresh fighting comes after a diplomatic push by the UN and other failed Renewed battles between government forces and Huthi rebels over the strategic city of Marib in northern Yemen have left 47 dead, including 16 pro-government...

  The move comes as President Joe Biden's administration seeks to ease tensions with Iran The US military is rapidly adjusting its global footprint as it pulls out of Afghanistan     The Pentagon said Friday it was cutting the number of troops and air defense units deployed to the...

    The decision to go nuclear is geared to reduce the country’s external energy dependence Iraq currently uses electricity, gas imports from neighboring Iran to generate around a third of its electricity Iraq, which suffers chronic electricity shortages, wants to construct eight nuclear power reactors by 2030 in order...

Raisi is seen as close to the 81-year-old supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who has ultimate political power in Iran Raisi's only rival from the reformist camp was the low-profile former central bank chief Abdolnaser Hemmati Iran was Saturday set to announce the winner of a presidential election in which...

Iran's 83 million people are suffering as jobs are scarce, prices are rising  Economic crisis brought on by crippling sanctions and worsened by the pandemic When Iranians vote for a new president next week, they will do so in the depths of an economic crisis brought on by crippling sanctions...

Omani mediators appear to be convincing the Huthis to accept a ceasefire and take part in peace negotiations

The UN nuclear watchdog also claimed its enriched uranium stockpile was 16 times over the limit These are the first substantive reports since Iran suspended some inspections in February   UN nuclear watchdog International Atomic Energy Agency on Monday, May 31,issued two reports in which it claimed Iran had not...

Assad has cast himself as the sole architect of a reconstruction phase for the war-ravaged country Having overseen total destruction of his country in civil war, he is expected to become more autocratic Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is likely to be reelected as the president of the war-scarred Syria in...

Weeks after Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw from the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, US secretary of state Mike Pompeo has threatened to impose some of the strongest sanctions on Iran. Terming them as ‘strongest in history’, Pompeo has urged Iran to immediately stop its missile tests, halt its entire nuclear...

The recent move of the US president Donald Trump, intended to terminate the 2015-nuclear pact with Iran, has further escalated the environment of uncertainty in the region. Besides indicating toward the upcoming instability and disturbed geopolitical equations in the region, this termination also holds many long-term economic repercussions. After months...

In 1978, Egyptian journalist Mohamed Heikal declared in his book Sphinx & Commissar that Soviet influence in the Middle East was a “spent force”, undermined by Moscow’s inability to be both a superpower and “the bastion of world revolution”.  One decade later, as the Soviet Union collapsed in 1989-91, some...

By Gareth Smyth In the same week during which US President Donald Trump replaced Secretary of State Rex Tillerson with CIA director Mike Pompeo, the Saudi cabinet approved its first national nuclear program on March 13, with 16 reactors costing $80 billion. While Riyadh has stressed the diversification of energy...

By Gareth Smyth On December 18, 2017, a visiting delegation from the International Monetary Fund gave a generally upbeat assessment of the Iranian economy, estimating 4.2 percent GDP growth in the current fiscal year ending in March. Ten days later, protests broke out in Iran’s north-eastern Iranian city of Mashhad,...

By Al Emid The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia currently stands at so many crossroads — and rather complex ones, it may be added — that a short magazine article cannot do more than just consider some of the more striking examples. The paths that KSA chooses at these crossroads will...

Tehran-based Aseman Airlines flight, from Tehran to Yasuj, crashed on Sunday morning killing all 66 passengers on board. Following is a timeline of some major crashes involving Iran in the last 10 years: September 1, 2006 An Iran Air Tour Tupolev passenger plane catches fire on landing at an airport...

Scores of people are feared dead after an Iranian commercial aircraft crashed into a mountain in southern Iran valley on Sunday, reported a semi-official news agency in Tehran. Though rescue work is still on, till the writing of this report, but it was presumed that all 66 passengers on board...