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A statement by Gen. Mark Milley, Chairman of the US Joint Staff, about Iran’s development of nuclear weapons has raised eyebrows of experts and observers.

A petition launched against the meagre minimum wage increase for the new Iranian year violates the labor law by disregarding the inflation rate, critics say.

Amid simmering tensions over the observance of the Iranian regime’s strict Islamic dress code, police arrested three Iranians who confronted hijab enforcers.

Tehran-linked groups targeted US forces in Syria for a second day in a row Friday, after the United States conducted an air strike against their bases following a drone strike Thursday.

A war monitor says the US airstrikes on positions of Iran-backed militias in eastern Syrian city of Deir ez-Zur (Deyrizor) have killed eights militiamen, after a deadly drone strike targeted American forces in the area.

Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Ground Force commander visited border regions in the northwest near Armenia and Azerbaijan where tensions between the two Transcaucasian countries have spiked.

The Nowruz holidays weren’t the happiest of days for Iran’s diplomats at the UN in Geneva, coinciding as it did with a highly critical report by the UN’s Special Rapporteur Javaid Rehman.

The US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen says Washington is mulling over new ways to strengthen its sanctions against the Islamic Republic.

The US military carried out air strikes in Syria Thursday night against Iran-backed militia groups who it blamed for a deadly drone attack on its forces.

The ultraconservative Paydari [Steadfastness] party is often blamed in Iran for most of the country's political, economic and social-cultural problems.

A large crowd of Iranian expatriates held a big rally in Brussels to once again urge the EU countries to designate Iran’s Revolutionary Guard as a terrorist organization.

The intelligence protection unit Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei’s offices has reportedly arrested and interrogated three people on suspicion of disclosing secret documents.

Despite US sanctions Iran has reached its highest level of oil exports in at least two years surpassing 1.3 million barrels per day, the finance minister says.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is due in London to discuss solutions to Iran’s continued nuclear armament.

Syria and Saudi Arabia have reportedly agreed to reopen their embassies after a decade, after Damascus ally Tehran made a deal recently to revive ties with Riyadh.

As the Holy Month of Ramadan starts, Iran's police have warned there will be strict punishments for those caught eating in public during fasting hours.

The Gulf Cooperation Council has reiterated its position on Iran’s “occupation” of three islands in the Persian Gulf which it claims belong to the United Arab Emirates.

A group of US Republican senators has urged the European Union to designate Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) a terrorist organization.

Pressure is mounting on the Biden administration to take harsher action on Iran as senators claim Iran’s oil wealth is helping fund Russia’s war on Ukraine.

An Iranian protester thrown from the fourth floor of a building when the security agents stormed his residence last week has lost his life.

A federal judge in New York ordered Iran's central bank and a European intermediary to pay out $1.68 billion to family members of troops killed in the 1983 bombing of the US Marine Corps barracks in Lebanon.