Iran

Earthquake in Iran leaves over 600 injured

A 6.3 magnitude earthquake on Iran's western border with Iraq injured more than 600 people, most suffering minor wounds, state television has said. No fatalities have been reported.
26 November 2018

World leaders at UN look for progress on NKorea, brace for Trump

North Korea and Iran will dominate this week's gathering of world leaders at the United Nations, where President Donald Trump will be firmly in the spotlight as he continues to upend global diplomacy.
23 September 2018

Iran resumes talks with Russia to build new nuclear power plant

Iran resumes talks with Russia to build a new nuclear power plant capable of generating up to 3,000 megawatts of electricity, energy minister Reza Ardakanian says, according to the Tasnim news agency.
25 August 2018

Air France, British Airways to end flights to Tehran

Air France and British Airways announce to halt flights to Tehran citing low profitability.
24 August 2018

Iranian MPs summon president

Iranian lawmakers have given President Hassan Rouhani one month to appear before parliament to answer questions on his government's handling of Iran's economic struggles, state media reported yesterday.
1 August 2018

Threats won't work, try respect

Iran waved away US President Donald Trump's claims that talks with the country's leaders were imminent, saying "threats, sanctions and PR stunts won't work". With Washington pulling out of the landmark 2015 nuclear deal and set to reimpose full sanctions on Iran from August 6, Tehran has responded coolly to Trump's offer on Monday to talk "any time" without preconditions.
1 August 2018

Iran will resist Trump's 'psychological warfare': Iran general

Overnight threats by President Donald Trump against Iran amount to "psychological warfare", and Tehran will continue to resist its enemies, a senior commander of Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards was quoted as saying.
23 July 2018

Iran lodges complaint against US over renewed sanctions

Iran has lodged a complaint with the International Court of Justice against the United States' reimposition of sanctions, the foreign ministry said yesterday.
17 July 2018

The battle for Iran

Iran, in the latest of a series of incidents on its western and south-eastern borders, said it had disbanded a Pakistan-based cell of anti-Shiite militants in a clash this week on the Iranian side of the border.
8 July 2018

Costa sees Spain past Iran

Spain squeeze 1-0 past dogged Iran in their World Cup Group B encounter on Wednesday thanks to a fortuitous goal from Diego Costa.
20 June 2018

US increases sanctions pressure on Iran

The United States imposed sanctions against six individuals and three companies it says were funneling millions of dollars to Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard's elite Quds Force, just days after President Donald Trump withdrew from the 2015 Iran nuclear deal.
11 May 2018

As US, North Korea plan to meet, Iran warns against Trump deals

A US push to change the Iran nuclear deal was sending a “very dangerous message” that countries should never negotiate with Washington, Iran’s foreign minister warns as US and North Korean leaders prepare to meet for denuclearization talks.
22 April 2018

New wave of Iranian globetrotters hits the road

A travel frenzy is gripping young Iranians, who are inspiring each other through social media to overcome traditional constraints and expand their horizons.
4 February 2018

Regional rivalries threaten to fuel the fire in Syria and Iran

Turkish allegations of Saudi, Emirati and Egyptian support for the outlawed Kurdish Workers Party (PKK) threaten to turn Turkey's military offensive against Syrian Kurds aligned with the PKK into a regional imbroglio.
30 January 2018

The best hope for the Iranian people

One of the most extraord-inary things about the current protests in Iran—the largest since the Green Movement in 2009—is that the very people that they are directed against may well have been the people who started them.
10 January 2018

What has gone wrong in Iran?

Hundreds of Iranians came onto the streets on December 28, 2017,in an impromptu demonstration in the city of Mashhad protesting high prices of daily necessities and rampant corruption.
4 January 2018

Saudi Crown Prince calls Iran leader 'new Hitler'

Saudi Arabia’s powerful Crown Prince calls the Supreme Leader of Iran “the new Hitler of the Middle East” in an interview with the New York Times, sharply escalating the war of words between the arch-rivals.
24 November 2017

Kurdish battle positions Kurds as US ally against Iran

There may be a silver but risky lining for Kurdish nationalists in their devastating loss of Kirkuk and other cities on the periphery of their semi-autonomous region as they lick their wounds and vent anger over deep-seated internal divisions that facilitated the Iranian-backed Iraqi blitzkrieg.
19 October 2017

Trump is strengthening Iran's radicals

The United States and Iran have rarely agreed on how to proceed with nuclear talks or other elements of their bilateral relations. But synergies and similarities between two factions—Iranian hardliners and the hawks of the current US administration—are as counterintuitive as they are profound.
17 October 2017

Trump expected to decertify Iran nuclear deal, official says

President Donald Trump is expected to announce soon that he will decertify the landmark international deal to curb Iran’s nuclear program, a senior administration official says, in a step that potentially could cause the 2015 accord to unravel.
6 October 2017