The United States has reinstated a sanctions waiver allowing India to operate Iran’s Chabahar Port, weeks after Washington revoked the exemption as part of its so-called maximum pressure campaign on Tehran.
ExxonMobil’s return to southern Iraq this month underscores how far Baghdad has surged ahead of Tehran in exploiting their shared border oilfields—and how the two neighbors’ fortunes are diverging.
Iran summoned European ambassadors in Tehran on Wednesday to protest what it called interventionist and baseless remarks made in a joint statement by the European Union and the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) on its territorial claims and defense policies.
Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Monday that Tehran is committed to Islamic unity and has no disputes with other Muslim nations, urging countries in the region to resist efforts by outside powers to sow division.
The Iran-backed Houthi movement said they targeted a cargo ship in the Red Sea as it was sailing toward Israel, the second attack in less than a week after the Jewish state assassinated Yemen's Houthi-aligned prime minister.
The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) on Monday urged Iran to relinquish control of three Persian Gulf islands which it has held since 1971 following Britain’s withdrawal from the region.
Iranian and Iraqi officials discussed ways to increase pressure on Iranian Kurdish opposition groups during a recent visit to Baghdad by Iran’s National Security Council Secretary Ali Larijani, sources from Iranian Kurdish parties told Iran International.
Planned transport routes linking Armenia and Azerbaijan must not change the region’s geopolitics or cut Iran's access to other corridors, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said in a phone call with his Armenian counterpart Ararat Mirzoyan on Tuesday.
A senior Iranian lawmaker warned on Monday that Tehran could halt its regional maritime security cooperation, including in the Strait of Hormuz, if European powers move to reimpose United Nations sanctions via the so-called snapback mechanism.
A recent flurry of high-level meetings across Central Asia and the Middle East signals a quiet but marked shift: Iran and Russia are increasingly sidelined in the region’s political and economic realignments in favor of Arab states.
Iran’s ambition to serve as a regional energy hub is faltering, with key neighbors losing confidence in Tehran’s ability to fulfil its commitments and shifting to alternative suppliers.
A prisoner exchange involving Elizabeth Tsurkov, an Israeli-Russian academic kidnapped in Baghdad in 2023, is expected to be finalized within days, multiple Iraqi and regional sources have said, amid quiet negotiations between Washington, Baghdad, and groups aligned with Tehran.
President Donald Trump’s high-profile trip to Saudi Arabia has drawn renewed attention to the often fraught relationship between the Middle East’s main heavyweights: Sunni Saudi Arabia and its Shi'ite rival Iran.
US President Donald Trump told Persian Gulf leaders on Wednesday that Iran must end its support for what he called Tehran's proxy forces and cease its nuclear weapons ambitions if it hopes to reach a deal with Washington.
US President Donald Trump made a u-turn on his campaign against the Iran-backed Houthi militia after huge financial losses and American casualties became impossible to justify, according to the New York Times.
President Donald Trump plans to announce that the US will begin officially referring to the Persian Gulf as the “Arabian Gulf,” the Associated Press reported — a move condemned by Iran as a politically motivated affront to its national identity and historical legacy.
The White House said on Monday that a top Houthi missile expert was killed in US strikes, as President Donald Trump warned that that military action against the Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen would continue until the group no longer threatens maritime security.
Tehran has condemned the US and UK military strikes against the Iran-aligned Houthi rebels in Yemen, rejecting US President Donald Trump's warning against its support for the militant group which it continues to say acts independently of Iran.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shiaa al-Sudani discussed Iran’s regional influence, Iraq’s energy independence, and US business investments during a call on Tuesday, the US State Department said.
Iranian foreign minister Abbas Araghchi and parliament speaker Mohammed Bagher Ghalibaf are due to attend the funeral of slain Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in Beirut on Sunday.
Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei on Wednesday told the visiting leader of potential mediator Qatar that Tehran expected more of the same hostile US policy under President Donald Trump.
US Navy and Coast Guard vessels rescued five Iranian and two Indian mariners from their sinking Iranian commercial ship, the M/V Shayesteh in the Persian Gulf.