Iran has successfully launched the Bavar-373 missile defence system destroying a long-range target for the first time

Iran has dismissed allegations that it is interfering in the US presidential elections by suggesting that the Trump team is attempting to undermine the confidence of American voters, who,...

US billionaire Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway conglomerate has agreed to pay $4.1 million to the US Treasury after falling into the sprawling dragnet of American sanctions on Iran. A...

An Iranian woman was arrested in the central Iranian city of Najafabad yesterday on charges of “insulting the Islamic hijab”

The United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has stressed the importance of an Iranian nuclear deal for the maintenance of security in the Gulf. Speaking in a video session of...

A virtual meeting of the UN Security Council at the minister of foreign affairs level was held on Tuesday to discuss the “Maintenance of International Peace and Security: Comprehensive...

Iran’s health minister appealed on Tuesday for more public and government support to enforce restrictions aimed at stemming a third major outbreak of coronavirus infections as new cases set...

Tehran is willing to sign military and security agreements with Arab Gulf countries for the sake of the region’s stability, Iranian Defence Minister Amir Hatami told Al Jazeera. Hatami...

The 13-year arms embargo imposed on Iran by the UN Security Council expired on Sunday in accordance with Resolution 2231 of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), commonly...

The Islamic Republic of Iran has the capacity to produce 90 per cent of its military needs, a spokesman for the Iranian foreign ministry said. “Iran has achieved a...

The head of the Arab Joint List in the Israeli parliament has said that Israel’s occupation of Palestine is a greater problem than Iran in the region. Knesset member...

An arms embargo imposed since 2007 by the UN Security Council (UNSC) ended Sunday, according to Iran’s foreign ministry, Anadolu Agency reports. All restrictions on the transfer of arms, related activities...

The head of the Iranian Commission of National-Security and Foreign-Policy, Mojtaba Zonnour, asked support from members of parliament to begin a dismissal investigation of President Hassan Rouhani, Anadolu Agency reports. Zonnour...

Two Iranian ports were exposed to a massive cyberattack last week, a senior official at the Ports and Maritime Organisation (PMO) of Iran was reported confirming by Iranian media...

The founder and CEO of an Iranian financial services firm was handed a 23-month jail sentence in the US yesterday for conspiring to evade sanctions on the Islamic Republic....

Iran and the US will reach a new deal to exchange prisoners ahead of the US presidential elections slated for November, the Jadeh Iran news site reported. The site...

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani announced yesterday that Iran will be able to resume its arms trade from this Sunday following the failure of the US to extend the UN...

This is one of the uncomfortable questions raised by the newly declassified Clinton files. A diplomatic dispatch to the former Secretary of State dated 12 October 2011 revealed that...

Iranian militias in Syria have been changing the names of ancient streets within the country with names of Iranian Shia leaders, according to the UK-based Syrian Observatory of Human...

The Iranian Foreign Ministry yesterday welcomed two proposals for dialogue with Gulf states under the auspices of Russia and China. “China and Russia have proposed plans for dialogue with...

Iranian health minister yesterday announced that a coronavirus vaccine was tested successfully on monkeys, adding that it would undergo human tests “in the next couple of weeks”. “All activities...

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has paid a fine worth 600,000 dirhams ($163,330) after killing two Iranian fishermen in August, RT reported yesterday. UAE coastguards opened fire at Iranian fishing boats...

Iran registered a daily record 272 deaths from coronavirus in the past 24 hours, the health ministry said on Monday, taking total fatalities to 28,816 in the worst-hit country...

Iran does not, at this stage, have enough enriched uranium to build a nuclear bomb, the Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Rafael Grossi has said....

Syrian regime forces attacked Iranian militia sites in the eastern governorate of Deir Ez-Zor and controlled an oil field which was previously held by the Iranian militiamen, local media...

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi proposed the formation of a new multilateral forum to de-escalate tensions in the Middle East, international news agencies reported yesterday. His remarks came during a...

A suspected gas explosion flattened a building and shops in a marketplace in southwest Iran on Sunday, killing at least five people, a fire official said, in the latest...

Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani on Friday described the new US sanctions on Iran as “cruel, terrorist and inhumane”, international news agencies reported. Rouhani characterised the sanctions as “attempts to...

The Iranian rial fell to a new low against the US dollar on Saturday as the economy reels under pressure from the COVID-19 pandemic and US sanctions. The dollar...

Downplaying the impact of new US sanctions on Iranian banks, Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani on Friday said the move is a “political propaganda” to appease domestic audience in the...

Iranian human rights activist and journalist Narges Mohammadi has been released from prison after her sentence was reduced, her husband and the judiciary said yesterday, AFP reports. “Narges was released from...

Intelligence sources yesterday reported that the Iraqi government had officially expelled the Kataib Hezbollah (Hezbollah Brigades) from Baghdad airport and closed all its offices in the capital. The Hezbollah...