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An Israeli air strike knocked Aleppo airport out of service on Tuesday and forced the Syria to reroute flights carrying aid for those affected by last month's earthquake.

A deputy health minister said Monday “irritant substances” were used in school gas attacks and claimed these had affected only “less than 10 percent” of students.

Regardless of the apparent hullabaloo about IAEA chief Rafael Grossi’s visit to Tehran, politicians and commentators in Iran appear to be skeptical about the outcome of the visit.

The Washington Post has quoted Western intelligence officials as saying that Ramin Yektaparast from Iran is the main suspect in organizing an attack in November on a Jewish cultural center in Essen, Germany.

The Islamic Republic's judiciary has threatened women who unveil in public as well as people behind the ongoing wave of chemical attacks on schoolgirls.

An Iranian official says the issue of obeying mandatory hijab is a matter of principle that the Islamic Republic cannot disregard as it is part of the Iranian “civilization”.

The Ukrainian Air Force said Monday it shot down 13 more Iranian drones that had taken off from southern Russia overnight to attack targets in Ukraine.

The head of UN’s nuclear agency, Rafael Grossi, told reporters on Monday that his meeting with Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi March 4 had “enormous importance.”

The Islamic Republic says it is ready for a prisoner swap with Belgium after the constitutional court in the European country upheld an exchange treaty.

Western officials say Moscow has hesitated to buy ballistic missiles from Tehran out of concern that Ukraine’s allies would in response supply Kyiv with long-range rockets.

Amid a wave of chemical attacks on schoolgirls across Iran, several teachers' and students' unions have called for nationwide protests on Tuesday and Wednesday.

Imprisoned journalist and human rights activist, Narges Mohammadi has called for more "street protests in Iran" over the poisoning of schoolgirls.

A prominent writer and member of the Writers' Association of Iran says his release was made possible by the power of the people's protest movement.

Iranian media say a journalist who had been following the news of gas attacks on girls’ schools in the religious city of Qom for the past few weeks, has been arrested.

Iran's ruler Ali Khamenei said Monday that poisoning of schoolgirls in recent months is an "unforgivable" crime and denied any government role in the attacks.

Iran’s official government news website IRNA has rejected most of what appeared to have been progress during IAEA chief Rafael Grossi’s two-day trip to Tehran.

Iran's Parliament sunk into commotion Sunday as a lawmaker tried to stop another one from voicing his constituents’ anger over the so-called ‘chain’ school poisonings.

Iran’s national currency, rial, bounced back Sunday, regaining some of its recently lost ground following a visit by the UN nuclear watchdog, IAEA head Rafael Grossi.

The public is demanding answers after distraught parents of poisoned schoolgirls in Iran were brutally attacked by plainclothes security forces in recent days.

A group of Iranian expatriates have held a protest outside the office of US Special Envoy on Iran, Robert Malley, in Washington DC to call for his dismissal.

Azerbaijan is to allow Israel to use its airfields in case of a possible attack against Iran's nuclear facilities as part of their military cooperation media say.