Iran's parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf declared on Wednesday that he had tested positive for the novel coronavirus.
Official news agency, KUNA, quoted Ghalibaf, who sequestered himself at his house after he knew of his infection, that he (...)
During the end of the 1970s, the region was faced with two sharp contradictory models: the Egyptian-Israeli peace, and the Khomeinist Revolution creating a "turban" state and transforming politics in the region from the art of possible into a fatwa (...)
The United States on Monday announced a slew of fresh sanctions and additional measures targeting Iran's petroleum sector as part of the Trump administration's maximum pressure campaign against Tehran.
In a statement on Monday, the US Treasury (...)
The United States on Thursday blacklisted sixteen Iranian banks in a bid to staunch the flow of money to the Iranian regime.
The US action included the designation of an Iranian military-affiliated bank under the US Treasury Department's (...)
Iran on Wednesday reported 239 deaths due to complications caused by coronavirus over the past 24 hours, marking the highest single-day fatalities in the country, local media said citing a statement from the health ministry.
This brings the total (...)
Yemeni Minister of Information, Muammar Al-Iryani praised alertness and high readiness of the security services in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, due to the success of their security operation that culminated in the announcement of the overthrow of a (...)
The US Department of State confirmed that the Iranian nuclear program continues to pose a threat to international peace, in light of the Iranian regime's ongoing failure to comply with the conditions of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) (...)
The President of Yemen on Thursday called on the international community to end the suffering of Yemenis through ensuring "decisive and active" pressure on "the Houthis and Tehran," and for the implementation of UN Security Council resolutions (...)
Nuclear activities in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) "remain a cause for serious concern", the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said in Vienna on Monday.
IAEA chief Rafael Mariano Grossi, addressed member (...)
Iran's coronavirus death toll has risen by 166 to 24,118, a health ministry spokeswoman told state TV on Saturday.
The total number of identified cases spiked by 2,845 in the last 24 hours to 419,043 in Iran, one of the Middle East's worst-hit (...)
France's foreign ministry on Friday said there was no evidence to suggest Lebanon's Hezbollah was storing chemicals to make explosives in France after a senior US official said the group had set up caches in Europe since 2012.
Speaking on Thursday, (...)
Who is the most prominent peace envoy to have convinced the region and its countries, to a large extent, of the necessity to establish peace with Israel?
Do you think it's US envoy Brian Hook or President Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner? My (...)
Iranian champion wrestler Navid Afkari was executed without any prior warning to him, his family or lawyers, according to media reports.
Iran said it executed Afkari on Saturday despite an international outcry and widespread pleas to spare his (...)
An Iranian deputy health minister warned on Tuesday of a "resurgence" of novel coronavirus cases in several parts of the country following reduced observance of health protocols.
The republic has been battling the Middle East's deadliest outbreak of (...)
A total of 1,044 centrifuges were active at the Fordow uranium enrichment plant, the head of Iran's atomic agency has said. It is in line with steps to reduce its commitments to the nuclear deal, Ali Akbar Salehi told the Iranian parliament's news (...)
A trial of British-Iranian aid worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe scheduled for Sunday in Iran has been postponed, a British lawmaker said, citing a conversation with Zaghari-Ratcliffe's husband.
Member of parliament Tulip Siddiq said in a tweet she (...)
Iran's coronavirus death toll rose by 116 to 23,029, a health ministry spokeswoman told state TV on Saturday.
The total number of identified cases spiked by 2,139 in the last 24 hours to 399,940 in one of the Middle East's worst-hit countries, Sima (...)
Iran's state TVhas said that the country's authorities have executed a wrestler for allegedly murdering a man after President Donald Trump asked for the 27-year-old condemned man's life to be spared.
State TV quoted the chief justice of Fars (...)
Iranian state television on Saturday aired a video in which a champion wrestler facing two death sentences appeared to confess to killing a water company security guard during anti-government protests in 2018.
The case of wrestler Navid Afkari has (...)
An explosion of a chlorine gas canister being transported by a truck in western Iran has injured 217 people but caused no deaths, state news agency IRNA reported.
The blast struck late Friday in Chardavol county in Ilam province, the news agency (...)
Iran on Saturday opened the new school year after nearly seven months of closure.
In a video conference, President Hassan Rohani said the education of 15 million students is as important as the health system.
"Education will not be closed in our (...)
Iran's stockpile of enriched uranium now stands at more than ten times the limit set down in a 2015 nuclear deal with world powers as it continues to use more advanced centrifuges to enrich uranium than permitted, the International Atomic Energy (...)
French President Emmanuel Macron arrived in the Lebanese capital Beirut, carrying with him a plan that he would present to the Lebanese political leadership while hoping that it would be instrumental for Lebanon to help overcome the worsening (...)
Iranian women have decided to speak out on sexual violence, raising awareness about a subject that continues to be a taboo in the republic. Taking a cue from #MeToo movement that began three years ago, many mostly anonymous Internet users in Iran (...)
Iran's death toll from the novel coronavirus rose by 119 to 21,020, the health ministry's spokeswoman told state TV on Wednesday, with the total number of identified cases rising to 365,606.
Sima Sadat Lari said that 2,243 new cases were identified (...)
