The United Nations World Tourism Organization on Friday named three villages in Iran among the world’s 52 best tourism villages for 2025, citing their rich cultural heritage and historical significance.
While relations between Moscow and Tehran have generally been good, ties between former Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and the seemingly perpetual Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov are decidedly not.
Iran’s former ambassador to Caracas said on Friday that US President Donald Trump is exaggerating the threat of drugs from Venezuela to justify an attack on the country, while ignoring the role of Washington’s traditional ally, Colombia.
A new and far deadlier conflict between Israel and Iran looms, former Israeli intelligence official Danny Citrinowicz told Eye for Iran, warning that Tehran has learned from past clashes and is rapidly improving its missile capabilities.
Tens of thousands of supporters of the Iran-backed armed Houthi movement converged in the Yemeni capital Sanaa on Friday to mourn the group's military chief of staff assassinated by Israel, which accused him of close ties to Iran.
Russia said on Friday it was ready to help resolve the impasse over Iran’s nuclear program after Russian President Vladimir Putin said this month he was receiving messages from both Israel and Iran.
Iran's foreign ministry on Friday condemned Israeli air strikes on south Lebanon, calling it a violation of a ceasefire with the weakened Hezbollah group it backs and holding the truce's guarantors the United States and France responsible.
As the world races to meet the UN’s 2030 Sustainable Development Goals, Iran faces a bleak environmental outlook given the scale of its problems and authorities' record of short-term policymaking.
Iran plans to activate about 80,000 trained volunteers in Tehran province to support social and religious outreach programs, including new coordination on hijab and public behavior, a senior official said on Thursday.
Russia has long sought to prevent Iran from having normal relations with the world, former foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said, days after the Russian foreign minister faulted him for accepting a sanctions clause in a 2015 nuclear deal.
New Zealand said on Friday it would reimpose United Nations sanctions on Iran, citing Tehran’s failure to comply with its nuclear obligations under the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, with the measures to take effect on October 18.
Authorities in Iran are increasingly targeting businesses rather than individuals who refuse to observe the theocracy’s strict social laws around veiling and gender mixing, several café owners and citizens told Iran International.
With the death of Nasser Taghvai, the Iranian film world has lost one of its last great moralists—a filmmaker who, through silence as much as cinema, taught the meaning of integrity.
Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei's representative to Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said on Thursday that Washington seeks Tehran's submission and uses the nuclear program as a means to that end.
Iran-backed hackers sought to blackmail former US national security advisor John Bolton over emails they had accessed, according to an indictment on Thursday accusing him of mishandling classified material.
The upcoming opening of Tehran’s new Saint Mary Metro station has sparked both celebration and controversy: hailed by some as a gesture of interfaith harmony and dismissed by others as a hollow publicity stunt to polish Iran’s image abroad.
Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei sent a message to Russian President Vladimir Putin a week after the Russian leader said Israel requested he convey to Iran its desire to avoid confrontation.
The hard-won ceasefire in Gaza is only the beginning, not the end of the crisis in Middle East. On the surface a fragile calm has settled over the region, but Iran's role in any new order remains undefined.
Iranian state-linked hackers are expanding their cyber operations beyond the Middle East to include targets in North America and Europe, according to Microsoft’s 2025 Digital Defense Report published on Thursday.
France on Thursday condemned stiff prison sentences handed down to two of its citizens in Iran earlier this week, calling the charges unfounded and their detention arbitrary.
MI5 Director General Ken McCallum said on Thursday that UK intelligence agencies were stepping up efforts to counter what he called mounting lethal plots by Tehran to silence dissidents on British soil.