Iran has not closed the door to dialogue with the US, a senior advisor to Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei said on Thursday, though said the pressure being placed on Tehran amounts to what he called psychological warfare.
Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Navy staged a large-scale naval parade in the Persian Gulf, the Sea of Oman, and the Caspian Sea on Thursday, with its commander vowing to prevent any enemy adventurism in the strategic waterways.
Iran branded comments by European Union foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas as reckless after she described the Islamic Republic as a serious threat during a visit to Israel earlier this week, the foreign ministry said on Wednesday.
The UN nuclear watchdog warned that any new agreement with Iran is impossible before Tehran resolves outstanding questions about uranium traces found at undeclared sites.
Iran warned on Tuesday that it would respond strongly to any use of the so-called snapback mechanism by Western countries, a tool within the 2015 nuclear deal that could reimpose international sanctions on Tehran lifted by the deal.
US immigration agents have detained an Iranian doctoral student at the University of Alabama amid renewed scrutiny of the Trump administration’s widening crackdown on international students.
US defense secretary Pete Hegseth urged public messaging emphasizing Iran's support of the Houthis in texts leaked to an American journalist, saying the public was largely ignorant about the Yemeni militia.
Iran is using diplomats and couriers to smuggle cash to Tehran's ailing ally Hezbollah in Lebanon via flights from Istanbul, Israel's N12 reported, after new authorities in Beirut banned Iran's state carriers.
The leadership in Baghdad is pressuring Tehran-aligned armed groups not to attack Israeli targets to avoid a punishing military response, The New Arab news outlet reported on Wednesday.
Tehran seeks to erect walls all around Iran, a senior armed forces official said, as part of a sweeping effort to tighten the country’s border security.
The United States on Wednesday moved to further impede Iranian access to American technology by adding two Iran-linked entities to its export blacklist, citing their alleged role in procuring parts for Tehran’s drone and missile programs.
Iran is forging documents to pass off fuel oil and liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) bound for Asian markets as emanating from other countries to skirt US-led sanctions, an analysis by Iran International shows.
The United States on Tuesday sanctioned three senior Iranian intelligence operatives accused of playing a role in the disappearance and presumed death of retired FBI agent Robert Levinson, who vanished in Iran over 17 years ago.
Workplace fatalities claimed the lives of over a thousand Iranian workers between March and September, a notable year-on-year increase that labor activists attribute to authorities' lack of attention to worker safety.
The United Nations Human Rights Council is set to vote on extending the mandates of both its fact-finding mission on Iran and its human rights rapporteur, citing ongoing and systemic human rights violations, according to a draft resolution seen by Iran International.
Iranian judicial authorities have announced arrests and legal action against individuals who took part in New Year’s celebrations at historical sites, accusing them of desecration, disrupting public order, and violating Islamic norms.
It starts with a text message on social media by an established cafe. A few million rials deposit, and a promise of a night unlike any other in Tehran.
US president Donald Trump has sent Iran’s leader a letter, we’re told, and that it’s significant. It probably is, but nobody I know seems to think so.
Last week I took my teenage niece to a concert at Tehran’s iconic Vahdat Hall, where two large portraits hang high on stage walls, watching over the audience. “What’s the Islamic Republic doing here,” my niece joked.
Almost four in ten marriages in Iran end in divorce, according to the latest official figures, giving rise to theocrats' cries of a crisis that may not be as obvious to some of the women gaining their freedom.
Iranian judicial authorities have announced arrests and legal action against individuals who took part in New Year’s celebrations at historical sites, accusing them of desecration, disrupting public order, and violating Islamic norms.
Iran is nearing a fork in the road, marked by what may be the most consequential decision yet to be made by the country’s supreme leader Ali Khamenei: war or a deal with the US administration of Donald Trump.
