The oil tanker MT Gulf Sky, which was said to have been hijacked earlier this month off the UAE coast as it was allegedly trying to smuggle Iranian oil,...

In the year 751 CE, the largely Arab-Persian army of the Abbasid Caliphate met the Chinese imperial forces of the Tang Dynasty on the banks of the River Talas...

Russian officials are now convinced that implementing a military solution in Syria is not possible, a US official has said. “Russia is convinced that a military solution cannot be...

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif yesterday welcomed the role played by Iraq in the Gulf and the construction of bilateral relations in the framework of non-interference in the...

An Iranian accused of spying for US and Israeli intelligence was executed on Monday, according to Iran’s official IRIB news agency, Reuters reports. Last month, the judiciary said Mahmoud...

The Iranian judiciary has suspended the executions of three men linked to anti-government protests in November, one of their attorneys, Babak Paknia, said on Sunday as reported by Reuters....

Turkey has suspended flights to Iran and Afghanistan as part of measures against the coronavirus outbreak, the Transport Ministry said on Sunday. Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said on Saturday...

Iranian health officials sought on Sunday to play down the president’s estimate that some 25 million people have been infected with the coronavirus, saying it was based on serological...

Iran has sent the black boxes from a Ukrainian airliner that it had accidentally downed in January to France for analysis, a Foreign Ministry official said on Saturday. Some...

An exiled Iranian opposition group that was the target of a failed bomb plot in France two years ago took its annual rally to the internet on Friday as...

Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani said on Saturday that 25 million Iranians have been infected with the coronavirus and that another 35 million are at risk of acquiring it. The...

Israel aims to provoke Iran into a confrontation before the US general election in November, an EU intelligence official has said, according i24 News. In reference to a chain...

Cyber-attacks were carried out recently against Israeli water infrastructure, however no significant damages were caused, the Israeli Water Authority has said. According to officials, the two attacks were aimed...

Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Iranian counterpart Hassan Rouhani discussed their countries’ fights against COVID-19 and Iran’s nuclear program. The two presidents “agreed to continue their cooperation in...

One can almost certainly predict that the victory of Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden will change many American equations. US President Donald Trump has overturned US foreign policy in...

United Nations’ (UN) International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) chief said ‘things will be bad’ for Iran inspectors are denied access to suspected nuclear sites by the end of July,...

Hospitals in Iran face acute shortages of medical personnel and beds as the country tackles a powerful second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, a senior official of Tehran’s anti-coronavirus...

US President Donald Trump has joined throngs of social media users posting the Persian hashtag meaning “No to Executions” to protest the planned execution of three men over their...

The Iraqi Joint Operations Command yesterday announced that the Basra Operations Command will control the Shalamcheh border crossing with Iran and the Safwan crossing with Kuwait. “The Iraqi naval...

Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday that sanctions against Iran have no chance of succeeding, the Kremlin said, Anadolu reports. In a phone conversation with German Chancellor Angela...

Iran is under pressure to halt the executions of 3 men who were arrested  during anti-government protests in 2019

Iran has reportedly decided to proceed with construction of the Chabahar railway project without India’s assistance citing a funding delay from New Delhi and will instead tap into approximately...

A spokesman for the Iranian government, Ali Rabiei, yesterday revealed details concerning the military agreement signed between Tehran and Syria, Russia Today reported. Rabiei told reporters that the bilateral agreement includes...

The Iranian Supreme Court in June upheld death sentences against three protesters who participated in the country’s anti-government demonstrations in November. A spokesman for the Iranian judiciary, Gholamhossein Esmaili,...

A Lebanese man accused of financing Hezbollah was freed from jail in the United States last month as a result of indirect contacts between Tehran and Washington that are...

Iran has executed a former defence ministry employee who sold information to the US Central Intelligence Agency, the Islamic Republic’s judiciary said on Tuesday. Reza Asgari had linked up...

Israel and the United States are developing a shared strategy aimed at taking out senior Iranian military figures and slowing down Iran’s nuclear program, US officials have revealed to the...

Iranian local media yesterday said a senior commander of the country’s Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) was killed in Syria. “IRGC leader Ibrahim Asami has been killed in Syria,” IRGC’s...

Lebanon’s top Christian cleric stepped up criticism of the Iran-backed Shia group Hezbollah and its allies without naming them on Sunday, saying Lebanese rejected being isolated from their allies...

Iran has claimed the downing of Ukrainian passenger jet in January was due to a “misalignment” of the air defence system’s radar, i24 News reported. The Iranian Civil Aviation...

Iran on Sunday confirmed 194 more fatalities from the novel coronavirus, bringing the nationwide death toll to 12,829, Anadolu Agency reports. A further 2,186 people tested positive for COVID-19, raising the...

Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani called on Saturday for big gatherings such as weddings and wakes to be banned to stem a rise in coronavirus infections, but insisted the country’s...