Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei on Sunday rejected calls by Tehran moderates for direct negotiations with the United States, insisting that Washington’s hostility cannot be resolved through talks.
Israel says it launched airstrikes against the positions of Yemen's Houthis in Sanaa on Sunday, shortly after the group fired a ballistic missile allegedly armed with a cluster bomb warhead at Israel.
Israel is threatening Muslim nations, Iran's foreign minister said on Sunday in an op-ed on a pan-Arab daily newspaper, urging Islamic countries to impose sanctions and form an international coalition against Iran's archenemy.
A viral series of photos showing women without headscarves on the streets of Tehran has ignited heated debate on social media over claims that the Islamic Republic has loosened its enforcement of compulsory hijab.
Nearly 75 percent of Britain’s Labour voters back designating Iran’s Revolutionary Guards as a terrorist group, a poll cited by the Telegraph shows, increasing pressures on the prime minister to fulfill his party’s pre-election pledge.
Iran’s intelligence forces killed six militants and arrested two in restive Sistan and Baluchestan province after deadly attacks by Jaish ul-Adl Sunni militants left several police forces dead, local authorities announced on Saturday.
Iran has overhauled its visa rules starting this month, requiring foreign tourists to enter only through organized tours booked with registered agencies, the Travel and Tour World website reported Saturday.
A Lebanese opposition figure has urged his government to expel Iran’s envoy in Beirut after senior Iranian official Ali Larijani reaffirmed Tehran’s backing for Hezbollah, deepening the controversy over Iran’s role in Lebanon.
Iran has asked Belarus for assistance in restoring its damaged air defense and electronic warfare systems following the June conflict with Israel, Ukraine’s Foreign Intelligence Service said.
At least 160 people were executed in Iran over the past month, according to a report by the Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), which warned that the pace of executions in the country is accelerating.
A conservative daily in Tehran has accused the Taliban of deliberately withholding water to pressure Iran, urging the government to use diplomatic, economic and other tools to punish the group.
Germany’s ambassador to Iran Markus Potzel announced he is ending his mission in Tehran for "personal reasons," and that the visa section is now operating at reduced capacity.
A hacker group said it disabled communications on more than 60 Iranian oil tankers and cargo ships, severing links between the vessels, their ports, and the outside world in one of the largest cyberattacks on the country’s maritime sector.
A prominent Iranian conservative figure alleged that Israel seeks to orchestrate leadership change in Tehran by assassinating members of the Assembly of Experts to pave the way for former president Hassan Rouhani, Iranian media reported on Thursday.
Moderates’ call for an overhaul of Iran’s political order has drawn fierce conservative backlash, with some critics invoking reformist appeals of 2003 that ended in bans, prison, and exile.
Iran’s former intelligence minister Mahmoud Alavi warned that domestic injustices and political exclusion risk eroding national cohesion, saying Iranians should not be treated as if unity is only demanded in wartime.
The United States imposed sanctions on 13 companies and eight vessels over suspected ties to Iran, the Treasury Department said on Thursday, in the latest effort to stop Tehran's oil exports in violation of US sanctions.
The Iranian rial slid further on Thursday, with the US dollar trading around 957,000 rials in Tehran’s free market, as markets braced for the possible reinstatement of UN sanctions through the so-called "snapback" mechanism.
The United States Air Force is seeking information to acquire copies of Iran’s Shahed-136 drone for study and training purposes, a report by the Pentagon-owned newspaper Stars and Stripes said.
Washington has outsourced its Iran policy to Israel following the 12-day war, former Obama-era negotiator Alan Eyre told Iran International, warning that the Trump administration now sees Iran's nuclear issue as resolved despite the remaining risks.
Iran is awash in voices claiming to speak for its people: state loyalists, opposition figures and self-styled experts of every stripe drowning out the non-extreme yet critical voices with their din.
Buying, selling, and drinking alcohol in Iran is illegal and still risky. But over the years, something has shifted. Whispers spread: some restaurants let customers bring their own drinks. Then, a few began serving alcohol under code names.
