Iran's president told the U.N. General Assembly on Tuesday that the United States could impose "neither negotiations nor war" on the Islamic Republic amid heightened tension between the longtime foes over Tehran's 2015 nuclear deal with major (...)
A fire broke out at an Iranian factory near Tehran on Tuesday, Iran's state TV reported, the latest in a string of fires and explosions, some of which have hit sensitive sites.
"There are no casualties ... firefighters have been dispatched to the (...)
“The parliamentary elections to be held next year are of paramount importance, and all necessary preparations should be made in order to give their results a high degree of credibility,” said Grand Ayatollah Ali Al-Sistani, the highest-ranking Shia (...)
Despite international calls to reconsider its actions, the US administration has unilaterally slapped additional sanctions on Iran over its nuclear programme.
Announcing the sanctions this week, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said the UK, France (...)
The Trump administration is set to announce on Monday new sanctions on people and entities involved in Iran's nuclear, missile and conventional arms programs, to support its assertion that all U.N. sanctions against Tehran are now resumed, a move (...)
Iran is ready for a full prisoner exchange with the United States, Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said in a virtual address to the Council on Foreign Relations in New York.
Relations between Tehran and Washington have deteriorated sharply (...)
Iran dismissed U.S. efforts to restore all U.N. sanctions on the country as mounting economic pressure from Washington pushed the local currency down to its lowest level ever on Sunday.
Iran's currency dropped to 272,500 to the U.S. dollar at money (...)
In historic scenes in Washington this week, the UAE and Bahrain signed normalisation agreements with Israel after US sponsorship. US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hailed the deals as “a historic breakthrough,” (...)
On Tuesday evening, Middle East Time, US President Donald Trump stood next to Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu at the White House ahead of the signing of the normalisation agreement between Israel and the UAE and announced that at least (...)
A trial of British-Iranian aid worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe scheduled for Sunday in Iran has been postponed, a British lawmaker said on Sunday, citing a conversation with Zaghari-Ratcliffe's husband.
Member of parliament Tulip Siddiq said in a (...)
The Arab League (AL) called Wednesday on the international community to take a firm stand against the Iranian activities that "shake the regional countries' stability."
The AL stressed rejection for the "Iranian hostile practices," calling on Tehran (...)
Iran's state television, citing an unnamed official, announced Tuesday that a British-Iranian dual national is facing a new charge, raising fears she could be forced to return to prison following her temporary release.
The report did not elaborate (...)
The Middle East and North Africa has been, traditionally, at the core of French diplomacy. Prior to World War I and until World War II, France had been an active great power in shaping the destinies of millions of Arabs, not to mention the (...)
Iran has been struggling to increase its oil and gas output recently, especially of natural gas from the South Pars Field, a joint field with Qatar, despite the fact that US sanctions make it almost impossible for Tehran to sell its output.
Though (...)
The runoff parliamentary elections in nine provinces will be held on Friday, spokesperson for Iran's Elections Headquarters Esmail Mousavi announced on Monday.
Mousavi said that the runoff parliamentary elections will be held in the provinces of (...)
Iran has let the U.N. nuclear watchdog inspect one of the two sites it agreed last week to grant access to after a protracted standoff, while Tehran's stockpile of enriched uranium has risen further, quarterly reports by the agency said on (...)
Jared Kushner and U.S. officials visited a major air base in the United Arab Emirates on Tuesday, speaking to Emirati and American pilots on the tarmac, near the advanced F-35 fighter jets that the UAE hopes to buy as it normalizes relations with (...)
Niger, the U.N. Security Council president for September, said on Tuesday it stands by a declaration that no further action can be taken on a U.S. bid to trigger a return of U.N. sanctions on Iran because there is no consensus in the 15-member (...)
When thousands of Iraqi demonstrators poured into the streets of cities across the country last year, they were largely protesting against unbridled corruption, government inefficiency, unemployment and the lack of basic services.
But soon the (...)
The United States is expected to reduce its troops presence in Iraq by about a third in the coming months, a U.S. official said on Friday, a move that had been expected after President Donald Trump's administration committed to a reduction (...)
Foreign Minister Heiko Maas agreed with his Israeli counterpart Thursday that an effort must be made to extend a weapon embargo on Iran, while stressing Germany still sees the landmark 2015 deal between Tehran and world powers as the best way to (...)
The U.N. nuclear watchdog agency says Tehran has agreed to allow inspectors in to two sites where Iran is suspected of having stored or used undeclared nuclear material.
The International Atomic Energy Agency said Wednesday that Iran was (...)
Iran said Sunday that an upcoming visit this week by the head of the U.N.'s atomic watchdog agency to Tehran has nothing to do with a U.S. push to impose so-called ``snapback'' sanctions on Iran.
The Trump administration last week dismissed (...)
Iran has retrieved some data, including a portion of cockpit conversations, from the Ukrainian jetliner accidentally downed by the Revolutionary Guard forces in January, killing all 176 people on board, an Iranian official said Sunday.
That's (...)
The U.N. nuclear watchdog's chief Rafael Grossi will make his first trip to Tehran in that role on Monday to pressure Iran to grant inspectors access to two suspected former atomic sites after a months-long standoff, he said on Saturday.
The (...)
