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United States and Iranian officials played down prospects as they headed to Vienna for the resumption of nuclear talks on Thursday.

Iran exported 366,000 tons of gasoline from March 21-July 20, and earned $133 million, spokesman of the country’s customs organization told local media on Wednesday.

An Iranian war veteran injured during the eight-year conflict with Iraq has died after setting himself on fire due to financial harship in the Kurdish-majority city of Sonqor in Western Iran.

Iran has sentenced three people, including a woman, to be blinded in one eye in ‘eye-for-an-eye’ punishment under the Islamic Republic’s retribution laws.

An Iranian international affairs analyst says the West does not pay attention to bragging by Iranian officials about their capablity to build a nuclear bomb.

The senior European official chairing Iran nuclear talks in Vienna tweeted Wednesday he was heading to the Austrian capital to resume discussions.

Following Iran’s repeated failures to get a satellite into orbit, Russia's Roscosmos says it will launch one on behalf of the Islamic Republic into space.

A Sukhoi-22 fighter jet belonging to Iran’s Revolutionary Guard crashed on Wednesday at an air base in the south-central city of Shiraz due to a “technical failure.”

A report by Iran’s Shargh newspaper says at least 200 people are still missing following the severe landslide and mudslide northwest of the capital Tehran last week.

Tehran will not “shy away from any action aimed at removing sanctions” and has “no reason” to abide by the 2015 nuclear deal, its atomic chief said Wednesday.

The United States Tuesday asked permission to confiscate an Iranian plane impounded in Argentina on suspicions of links to international terrorist groups.

Security forces laid siege to a village in northern Iran Tuesday and started demolishing houses and farms belonging to members of the persecuted Baha’i faith.

IAEA Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi says that “good words” from the Islamic Republic are not enough to satisfy international inspectors

The Israeli and the US navies have started a four-day joint military war game in the Red Sea as Jerusalem’s worries are growing about Iran’s presence in the region.

There are one hundred thousand missiles in Lebanon, chief commander of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, Hossein Salami Tuesday told a gathering of thousands of Basij militia.

Iran can double its trade with China if US sanctions are lifted, but it would need 8 years to regain the economic status of 2010, a Tehran business leader says.

An Argentine judge investigating the Iranian and Venezuelan crew of a cargo plane grounded in Buenos Aires over IRGC links has allowed some of them to leave.

A senior US Republican senator says the insistence by the European Union and President Joe Biden on rejoining Iran’s nuclear deal – or the JCPOA – is a fool’s errand.

Iran’s foreign minister says Tehran’s move to feed fuel into “hundreds” more centrifuges to enrich uranium was a response to new US sanctions on entities supporting oil and petrochemical trade.

A former senior lawmaker has called on the Iranian government to explain, once and for all, if it intends to lay the 2015 nuclear agreement (JCPOA) to rest.

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi is slated to travel to New York for the 77th session of the UN General Assembly in September, his first since he did not attend the event last year.