Iran

Iran has ramped up its diplomatic engagements throughout the year in an effort to overcome its isolation, improve its economy, and project a sense of strength. President Ebrahim Raisi, an ultraconservative leader, has spearheaded this…

Albanian police on Tuesday raided a camp home to members of an Iranian opposition movement, with local media reporting that the group is suspected of orchestrating cyberattacks against foreign institutions.The Ashraf 3 camp northwest of…

Amid intensifying violence in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, the leaders of Palestinian militant groups Hamas and Islamic Jihad engaged in discussions with high-ranking Iranian officials in Tehran. Ziyad al-Nakhalah, the chief of Islamic…

Iran has decided to reopen its embassy in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday, June 6, following a seven-year closure, a diplomatic source told Agence France-Presse (AFP), sealing a Chinese-brokered rapprochement deal announced in March. The…

Iran's Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei, has expressed his willingness to enhance diplomatic relations with Egypt. He made this known during a meeting with Oman's Sultan, according Iranian state media on Monday. Historically, the…

Iran has appointed a veteran diplomat with extensive experience in Gulf affairs as its new ambassador to Saudi Arabia, the semi-official Fars news agency reported on Monday. Alireza Enayati, previously Tehran’s ambassador to Kuwait from…

Iran’s Intelligence Minister Esmail Khatib has announced that the country’s forces had recently captured a “terrorist” group linked to Israel, local media reported. Khatib said the team was captured while entering across the…

Iran on Friday has executed three men accused of deadly violence during last year's anti-government protests despite objections from human rights groups. Mizan, the judiciary's website, announced the executions of Majid Kazemi, Saleh…

Iran has executed a Swedish-Iranian dissident convicted of leading an Arab separatist group accused of attacks, including one on a military parade in 2018 that killed 25 people. According to Iran's severe interpretation of Islamic law,…

Iran has executed a Swedish-Iranian dissident convicted of leading an Arab separatist group accused of attacks, including one on a military parade in 2018 that killed 25 people. According to Iran's severe interpretation of Islamic law,…

Thousands of Iranians took to the streets Friday across the country to mark Quds Day (Jerusalem Day) in solidarity with Palestinians, state media reported. The rallies, an annual fixture since Iran’s 1979 Islamic revolution, are held on…

In a further attempt to rein in increasing numbers of women defying the compulsory dress code, Iranian authorities are installing cameras in public places and thoroughfares to identify and penalize unveiled women, the police announced on…

Saudi Arabia and Iran scooped top spots in a Quran and call to prayer recital competition in the Kingdom on Friday, state press agency SPA reported. Iranian contestant Younes Shahmoradi secured first-place in the Quran recital part of the…

An Iranian court has handed out death sentences to two men over an attack on a Shia shrine in Iran that killed 15 people in October and was claimed by the militant group ISIS, the official news agency IRNA reported on Saturday. Fars…

Worldwide leaders have welcomed the announcement that Saudi Arabia and Iran have reached an agreement to resume diplomatic relations. The decision to re-establish relations, which were severed in 2016, came following talks that took place…

Muslim Media Corporation, popularly called MMC, has  again taken a brave stanceby urging a boycott of Saudi Arabia and Iran until they embrace peace and settle their long-standing differences as tensions between both countries continue to…

In a rare interview from Tehran's Evin prison on Thursday, a US citizen imprisoned by Iran on spying charges that the United States rejects as baseless beseeched US President Joe Biden to secure his release and that of two other American…

The European Unionon Monday has imposed asset freezes and visa bans on Iran’s education and culture ministers. The sanctions are in a fifth round of sanctions against Tehran over its crackdown on demonstrators. The new measures targeted…

Opponents of Iran’s regime are urging foreign ambassadors to boycott an annual celebration of the 1979 Islamic Revolution in Tehran, with a hashtag campaign led by individuals who have lost family members to the regime. The…

Despite a brutal crackdown by security forces, the province of Sistan-Baluchistan has witnessed protests weekly after Friday prayers since late September. Protesters took to the streets in Iran’s southeastern province…

Iranian activist Leila Hosseinzadeh detailed in a social media post the dire conditions of female prisoners jailed at Adel Abad prison in Shiraz, noting that sedative and anxiety pills are being given to many prisoners. In a…

Iran has sentenced a former defense ministry official to death for allegedly spying for Britain, the official IRNA news agency reported on Wednesday. Alireza Akbari, who served as a deputy defense minister during the tenure of…

Iranian authorities have arrested a journalist who published interviews with families of death row inmates sentenced in connection with nationwide protests, the reformist daily Etemad said Friday. Fourteen Iranians have been…

Iranian police briefly detained several unidentified top-tier football players in a raid on a party on New Year’s Eve where alcohol was served in violation of a ban, Iranian media reported. Mingling between sexes outside…

Iran on Monday sanctioned the heads of the UK’s domestic spy agency and military along with British and German political figures, hitting back at Europe before it imposes new sanctions of its own. At his weekly press…

At least two young men arrested during anti-regime protests in Iran are at imminent risk of execution, activists warned on Saturday, two days after Tehran carried out its first execution over demonstrations sparked by Mahsa…

Iran’s state-run al-Alam news channel has denied media reports claiming the country’s morality police had been shut down. Earlier on Sunday, several news outlets reported that the Islamic Republic had abolished its morality…

Iran on Sunday put to death four people accused of working with Israel’s intelligence service, the judiciary said. “This morning, the sentences of four main members of the gang of mobsters related to the Zionist intelligence…

The US Navy said Saturday it had seized one million rounds of ammunition along with rocket fuses and propellant being smuggled on a fishing trawler from Iran to war-torn Yemen. The cargo was discovered on Thursday…

Farideh Moradkhani, a niece of Iran’s supreme leader and an outspoken critic of the Islamic Republic, has declared her support for the ongoing anti-regime protests in the country and called on the international community to…