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For the first time in nine years, Iran has resumed sending Muslim pilgrims to Saudi Arabia for Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca, after receiving approval from Riyadh.

The European Union has reached an agreement to bolster sanctions against Iran in response to Tehran’s attack on Israel this month, following a meeting of the bloc's foreign ministers.

April 13, 2024, Iran’s attempted retaliation against Israel marks a watershed moment in the history of contemporary Middle East that might bring Arab monarchies and Israel ever closer than before.

The Iranian foreign ministry claimed on Monday that nuclear weapons have no place in its nuclear doctrine.

US forces in Iraq and Syria faced two separate rocket and explosive drone attacks in less than 24 hours, Iraqi security sources and US officials told Reuters on Monday, the first reported after a near three-month pause.

Iran’s Judiciary has mandated provincial justice departments to cease registering legal complaints against state officials, a move widely seen as a way to further shield government and military officials from facing accountability.

Over a dozen Iranian Baha'i women were summoned to the Islamic Revolutionary Court, over arbitrary charges of propaganda against the Islamic Republic and participating in activities contrary to Islamic law.

He is an attention seeker, always trying to grab attention, sometimes by making too much noise and at other times by keeping silent. Former populist Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is currently in the latter mode.

Criticism of Iran’s Central Bank is continuing as one lawmaker takes aim at its failure to provide necessary foreign currency for raw material imports, exacerbating the country’s currency crisis.

The chairman of Iran's Medical Council has warned about the state of healthcare in the country as significant gaps in critical residency positions threaten the already battered sector.

Conflicting reports from sources affiliated with Iran and its proxies have raised questions about their intentions, as a US base in Syria was targeted on Sunday for the first time in more than two months.

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi arrived in Islamabad on Monday on a three-day official visit, his first after unprecedented tit-for-tat military strikes this year.

Recent floods have devastated the southeastern province of Sistan-Baluchestan, causing massive infrastructural damage leaving hundreds of thousands of residents without critical supplies.

Iran is grappling with soaring food prices amidst economic turmoil and the devaluation of the rial compounded by Iran-Israel tensions.

Many students at Amir Amirkabir University of Technology in Tehran embarked on a strike on Sunday, after morality police banned over 200 students from entering the campus.

On Sunday, the death sentences of 9 prisoners convicted of drug-related charges were carried out in Iran in three different prisons, bringing the total to nearly 900 hangings in the past 12 months.

At least five rockets were launched from Iraq's town of Zummar towards a US military base in northeastern Syria on Sunday, two Iraqi security sources told Reuters.

Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei says the low success rate of missiles launched at Israel in the April 13 attacks is a "secondary issue," downplayingthe failure of the attack.

As Iranian women continue to defy the Islamic government in Tehran by shunning the hijab in ever-greater numbers, officials cling to the theory of foreign conspiracies to justify their crackdown.

Hossein Hosseini, goalkeeper for Iran's Esteghlal football club, has been called to the Football Federation's disciplinary committee to explain an incident in which he embraced a female fan.

Experts are warning that mismanagement could threaten ancient Iranian heritage after the Deputy Minister of Iran's Cultural Heritage expressed concern about a lack of funds for maintaining critical sites.