The Israeli military carried out a surprise multi-front drill on Sunday in what it called an effort to gauge readiness to counter a cross-border assault and stave off any rerun of the October 7 attacks by Iran-backed Hamas militants.
While China keeps buying discounted oil from Iran and Russia, it is steering new investments and trade routes toward their competitors, official Chinese data reveals.
Tehran water authorities will cut supplies for 12 hours to households deemed heavy consumers who ignore three official warnings, a senior utility official said on Tuesday, as the capital faces its worst drought in more than a century.
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.
Iranian police said on Tuesday they detained about 21,000 people described as suspects during the country’s 12-day war with Israel, arrests they said were largely based on public tip-offs, while the judiciary had put the figure closer to 2,000.
Israel’s June attack on Iran was years in the making but launched only after three developments aligned: US President Donald Trump’s re-election, the impasse on nuclear talks, and direct Iranian missile strikes on Israel, Euronews reported.
Iran’s president is facing a storm of backlash after twice straying into politically fraught territory on live television, first by suggesting talks with Washington were preferable to war, then by downplaying the stakes of the Zangezur Corridor dispute.
A vast majority of Iranians are dissatisfied with the government's economic policies, according to a poll by Iran's leading economic newspaper Donya-ye Eqtesad, as costs of living soar and the value of the Iranian currency slips.
Lebanese Foreign Minister Yusuf Raji will not meet Iran's newly reappointed security boss Ali Larijani when he visits the country this week, Lebanese media reported, as Beirut seethes over Iran's criticism of its efforts to disarm Hezbollah.
Iran’s hardliners have vowed retaliation against a US-brokered deal last week which would link two parts of Azerbaijan via a corridor through Armenia, while President Masoud Pezeshkian’s government has so far offered only a muted response.
Iran on Monday criticized the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) for what it called a failure to act over Israeli and US attacks in June after talks in Tehran with the UN nuclear watchdog’s deputy director general earlier in the day.
A right-wing political party in the UK is demanding an upcoming Shi'ite Islamic camp for children be cancelled over alleged ties to Iran’s government which organizers deny.
We Iranians need a national conversation — an ongoing, daily dialogue to see the dark and bright sides of the challenges our country faces and, hopefully, find practical solutions.
Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence issued secret guidance warning ministries and major companies to prepare for the likely return of punishing United Nations sanctions, documents reviewed by Iran International show.
A procurement network tied to a shadowy Iranian military organization stretches into Europe using front companies to supply sensitive technology to the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program, according to an Iran International investigation.
Israel's defense minister on Monday hit back at a list published by media linked to Iran's military which named Israeli officials in an assassination list, appearing to threaten Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei's life in response.
The Islamic Republic’s massive investment in this year’s Arbaeen pilgrimage to Iraqi holy cities is stirring fresh outrage at home, where Iranians face spiraling inflation, unpaid wages and hours-long power and water outages.
Iran is ready to accept certain restrictions on its nuclear program in exchange for the lifting of economic sanctions, but ending uranium enrichment is not negotiable, the country’s deputy foreign minister said.
Iran’s top security chief is set to urge Iraqi Shia factions to expedite approval of legislation reforming the Popular Mobilization Forces and fully integrating them into the state security apparatus, a source told Iran International.
Iranian border guards, in coordination with the navy, have seized a tanker carrying more than 2 million liters of what authorities described as smuggled diesel fuel in the Gulf of Oman, state media reported on Monday.
A senior Iranian Revolutionary Guards commander said Israel could launch another attack on the Islamic Republic if it believed it could succeed, but insisted Tehran’s forces remained fully prepared to respond.