Iranians should not allow U.S. President Donald Trump's "maximum pressure" approach to harm national unity ahead of parliamentary elections, President Hassan Rouhani said in a speech, lashing out at hardliners over mass disqualification of (...)
A Caspian Airlines plane slid off the runway onto a highway on landing at an airport in southwestern Iran on Monday, but all passengers were evacuated without injury, Iranian state media reported.
"It ran out of runway when landing at Mahshahr (...)
Oman's Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Yousuf bin Alawi bin Abdullah will meet Iran's Foreign Minister Javad Zarif in Tehran on Sunday to discuss maritime security in the Hormuz strait, Oman's foreign ministry tweeted.
Oman maintains friendly (...)
Iran said on Wednesday that Tehran and its regional rival Saudi Arabia should work together to overcome problems, the state news agency IRNA quoted Iranian president's chief of staff Mahmoud Vaezi as saying.
"The relations between Iran and its (...)
Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei led last Friday's prayer for the first time in almost a decade, delivering a toned-down but defiant sermon in which he tried to tarnish protesters against the Iranian regime.
Demonstrators who had torn (...)
Washington's assassination operations during the past 10 years targeting terrorist leaders, from Al-Qaeda's Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi to Major General Qassem Suleimani, commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps' Quds Brigade, has revived (...)
Iraqi riot police opened fire Tuesday amid clashes with anti-government protesters on a central Baghdad highway, killing one person and wounding over a dozen people, officials said, the latest since violence erupted again last week between (...)
Iran said it had asked the US and French authorities for equipment to download information from black boxes on a downed Ukrainian airliner, potentially angering countries which want the recorders analysed abroad.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of (...)
Iraqi security forces fired tear gas and live rounds during clashes with anti-government protesters overnight and on Monday morning in Baghdad, killing two and wounding dozens of demonstrators, officials said.
The clashes prompted authorities to (...)
Iran said on Monday it could quit the global nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) if European countries refer it to the U.N. Security Council over a nuclear agreement, a move that would overturn diplomacy in its confrontation with the West.
The (...)
Iraqi security forces fired tear gas and live rounds during clashes with anti-government protesters overnight and on Monday morning in Baghdad, wounding at least 13 demonstrators and prompting authorities to close key streets and thoroughfares (...)
Iran will review its cooperation with the United Nations' nuclear watchdog over any "unjust" measures, Iranian parliament speaker Ali Larijani said after EU powers last week triggered a dispute mechanism under Tehran's 2015 nuclear deal.
"We state (...)
Iran is trying to decode the black box of the crashed passenger plane before planning to send it to a second country, an aviation official told official IRNA news agency on Sunday.
“Iran holds the black box of the Ukrainian Boeing 737 passenger (...)
Iran's supreme leader threw his support behind the elite Revolutionary Guards in a rare sermon on Friday after their belated admission that they had accidentally downed an airliner triggered days of street protests.
In his first Friday prayers (...)
Iran will send the black box flight recorders from the Ukrainian jetliner that it accidentally shot down last week to Ukraine for further analysis, an Iranian official said Saturday.
Hassan Rezaeifer, the head of accident investigations for the (...)
Iran's supreme leader said President Donald Trump is a ``clown`` who only pretends to support the Iranian people, as he addressed Friday prayers In Tehran for the first time since 2012.
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei says Trump will ``push a poisonous (...)
Britain's Treasury said it has designated the entire Hezbollah organisation as a terrorist group under its Terrorism and Terrorist Financing rules, and as such its assets will be frozen.
Previously it was only Hezbollah's Military Wing which was (...)
TEHRAN admitted on Saturday that its military had mistakenly shot down a Ukraine International Airlines flight 752, killing all 176 people on board, many of whom were Iranian. The confession in itself appears to have re-ignited anti-government (...)
Iraq's outgoing prime minister said Wednesday it was up to the next government to see through parliament's decision to oust U.S. troops.
Prime Minister Adel Abdul-Mahdi's comments came ahead of planned protests against the American military presence (...)
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Tuesday called on U.S. President Donald Trump to replace the Iranian nuclear deal with his own new agreement to ensure that the Islamic Republic did not get an atomic weapon.
"If we're going to get rid of it, (...)
Iran said on Tuesday it had arrested an undisclosed number of suspects accused of a role in shooting down a Ukrainian airliner, as anti-government demonstrations triggered by the disaster entered a fourth day.
Wednesday's shooting down of Ukraine (...)
Britain, France and Germany will trigger the dispute resolution mechanism in the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran, two European diplomats said on Tuesday, the biggest step the Europeans have taken in response as Tehran has backed off nuclear (...)
France, Britain and Germany confirmed on Tuesday that they had triggered the dispute mechanism in the Iran nuclear deal given its ongoing violations, but said they were not joining the United States campaign to exert maximum pressure on Tehran.
"We (...)
Britain, France and Germany have launched action under the Iran nuclear agreement paving the way for possible sanctions in response to Tehran's attempts to roll back parts of the deal, European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said (...)
As though the Middle East needed more crises or more wars, the region was brought to a perilous brink following the US assassination of Major General Qassem Suleimani, commander of the Quds Force of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). A (...)
