The Iraqi Health Ministry reported 75 additional fatalities from the novel coronavirus on Friday, Anadolu Agency reports. As many as 3,461 infections were registered in the past 24 hours, bringing the...

To reduce the overwhelming dependence on crude oil exports, which have been hit hard by sanctions, Iran is slowly shifting focus towards petrochemicals, the country’s second-largest export industry, Anadolu Ageny reports....

US President Donald Trump’s special envoy for Iran is leaving his post after two years, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced Thursday, Anadolu Agency reports. It is unclear why Brian...

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Wednesday that America will submit a resolution at the UN Security Council next week calling for an extension of the arms...

Iranian President, Hassan Rouhani, has called for the repercussions of the explosion that devastated the port of the Lebanese capital Beirut on Tuesday. Rouhani described the explosion as a...

Egypt has sent nearly 150 soldiers to Syria to fight in the ranks of the Assad regime, military sources told Anadolu Agency. The soldiers had been sent to the...

A massive fire broke out yesterday inside an industrial zone in the Iranian capital of Tehran, state television reported. The flames ripped through three warehouses in Jajrud, around 25...

The leader of a US-based Iranian opposition group has been abducted by Iran while he was staying in Dubai, says his family. The group is designated as a terrorist...

Fifteen pro-Iran fighters from Iraq were killed on Monday during raids that targeted the Al- Bukamal city in the Deir Ez-Zor countryside in eastern Syria, the Syrian Observatory for...

Iran has been concealing the number of Covid-19 deaths during the pandemic, leaked data has revealed. The accurate figure is almost three times that which the government claims, investigators...

Iranian authorities have arrested 19 Afghans after the Taliban flag was raised in the capital Tehran during Eid Al-Adha celebrations, Anadolu reported today. According to the news site, Commander of Tehran...

Israel launched air strikes on Syrian military targets in southern Syria late yesterday, after thwarting an attack near the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, Reuters reported. According to the state-run news agency Sana, Israeli helicopters...

Saudi Arabia has said that three Iranian boats were “forced” to leave its territorial waters last week. The incident comes at a time of high tension between Riyadh and...

The spokesperson for Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), Brigadier General Ramadan Sharif, said the Islamic Republic’s military capabilities and level of deterrence have evolved despite the arms embargo...

One person is dying from COVID-19 every seven minutes in Iran, state television said on Monday, as the Health Ministry reported 215 new deaths from the disease, and state...

Iran announced Sunday that it has imposed economic sanctions on a former US expert for playing an active role in Washington’s “economic terrorism against the interests of the Islamic...

The foreign minister of United Arab Emirates told his Iranian counterpart that strengthening bilateral cooperation was an important element in tackling the coronavirus, UAE state news agency WAM said...

A senior advisor to Iran’s supreme leader on Sunday congratulated Turkey for reopening the Hagia Sophia Mosque after 86 years as a museum. “We congratulate the Turkish people for this important Islamic success,”...

Iran’s foreign minister blamed the US and Europe for funding and protecting terrorists Saturday following the arrest of the leader of a US-based anti-government group. “The west must cease...

Iran’s main stock index broke through the key 2 million point mark for the first time ever on Sunday, amid warnings that the market is overheating, reported Reuters. The...

Iran said on Saturday that its intelligence forces have detained a US-based leader of a pro-monarchist group whom it accused of being behind a 2008 bombing that killed 14,...

Iranian teams have cleaned up an oil slick near field in the northern region of the Gulf that had extended over a six-square-km (2.3 square mile) area, an Iranian...

Ukraine said on Friday that its first round of talks with Iran about the downing of a Ukrainian airliner shortly after takeoff in Tehran in January had been constructive,...

Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, accused the United States on Friday of trying to stir anti-government protests by imposing sanctions that he said are aimed at bankrupting the...

A cyber cold war is raging between Iran and Israel as another Iranian group early Friday claimed to have launched a series of cyberattacks on Israel’s rail infrastructure since...

Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said yesterday it launched ballistic missiles from “the depths of the Earth” for the first time, international news agencies reported local media saying. The...

The US has formally notified the United Nations Security Council on Tuesday of the detention of an Iranian arms ship off the Yemeni coast. “I would like to draw...

An Iranian delegation will arrive in the Ukrainian capital, Kiev, today to discuss compensation for the families of the Boeing 737 passengers which were killed by an Iranian missile...

For the fifth consecutive year, Iran achieves self-sufficiency in wheat production, the New Khaleej reported President Hassan Rouhani saying on Monday. During a meeting with a group of activists in the field...

The military exercise, code-named “Payambar e Azam 14” or the Greatest Messenger, is the largest of its kind in the region.

Iran registered a record 235 deaths from the new coronavirus in the past 24 hours, according to official health ministry figures released on Tuesday. The Islamic Republic is the...

With little regard for normal diplomatic protocol, Iran’s former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has reached out to arch-rival Mohammad Bin Salman in a letter dismissed by officials and experts. Ahmadinejad...