The new plant is expected to help bring back energy to those in Syria who lost access to it over the past decade.

Only 3.5 percent of Iraq’s farmlands are watered with irrigation systems and rivers are polluted with viruses and bacteria, oil spills and industrial chemicals.

Iran registered 39,619 new infections in the 24 hours to Sunday, taking the total since the pandemic started to 4,158,729

Talks have been happening since April in Vienna to find a way to bring both sides back into full compliance

The UN Security Council also agreed to discuss the incident off the coast of Oman on Monday

Pahlavi, like many others, has spoken before of the regime crumbling

Bennett said Israel had shared intelligence with the United States, Britain and others also tying Iran to the attack.

A British security guard and a Romanian crew member were killed in what analysts said bore all the hallmarks of the "shadow war" between enemies Iran and Israel

Iran built the port to reportedly expedite the export of petroleum products from the South Pars energy hub, which the country shares with Qatar.

The MT Mercer Street, managed by prominent Israeli billionaire Eyal Ofer, was struck on Thursday off the coast of Oman, in an incident Israel has blamed on Iran.

The move comes barely days after Human Rights Watch urged Iran to unconditionally release all water protesters it had detained.

The US sanctions choked Iran, including by seeking to stop its oil exports, and the economy contracted by more than six percent in both 2018 and 2019

Reza Sarhangpour Kafrani, aka Reza Sarhang, co-owned the Canada-based company Prolife Global, which conducted business in the US and elsewhere.

The Islamic Republic "is not only Israel's problem, but it is the world's problem. Its behaviour threatens the freedom of navigation and global commerce", the Israeli official added.

Analysts said the attack bore all the hallmarks of tit-for-tat exchanges in the "shadow war" between Israel and Iran  

The authorities should immediately release peaceful protesters, provide information about deaths, and allow an independent international investigation, says Human Rights Watch .

Iran's president-elect has said his government will support talks that ‘guarantee national interests’ but will not allow negotiations for the sake of negotiations.

The demonstration was a spillover from protests in the oil-rich Khuzestan province, where water protests began more than 10 days ago

At the heart of the meeting will be the presence of US troops in Iraq and more broadly, whether Baghdad has what it takes to stand up to residual Islamic State jihadist group cells within the country's borders.

In a big setback to the Iran-backed militia, one of its top commanders, Brigadier Hamer Yahiya, who was the military chief of staff of the capital’s Hamdan district, was killed in fighting.

GCC demands Iran’s nuclear program, ballistic missiles, and its support for militias must be included in ongoing talks in Vienna between Iran and five world powers

The United States is planning a crackdown on Iranian oil sales to China in violation of its sanctions

Tehran inaugurated Thursday the terminal in Jask, on the Gulf of Oman, allowing tankers to avoid the Strait of Hormuz -- a passage less than 40 kilometres wide at its narrowest point

HRW has condemned the Iran’s response to ongoing internal water protests; at least four people have been killed by security forces

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.

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