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United States senators have differing hopes for Wednesday’s report to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee by Iran special envoy Rob Malley.

After a year of talks over reviving the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, today’s appearance by special envoy Rob Malley at the United States senate may prove decisive.

The Canadian government has told Iran International that all visitors are carefully screened before entering Canada, dodging a direct response whether the Iranian football team will be allowed in the country.

A journalist in Iran has accused authorities of covering up the escape of the owner of a building that collapsed in Abadan Monday, and claiming that he is dead.

General Morteza Mirian, commander of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards’ ground operations, has claimed that 4,000 relatives of “senior officials” live in the United States, Canada, and Europe.

Saudi Arabia's foreign minister said on Tuesday that there had been some progress in talks with Iran but "not enough" and that the kingdom's hands remain outstretched to Tehran.

Amnesty International’s annual report on the worldwide use of the death penalty shows Iran as a country with a “disturbing spike” in executions.

Iranian judiciary spokesperson Masoud Setayeshi said Tuesday that Swedish-Iranian scientist Ahmadreza Djalali would be executed in due course.

Jordan says Iran-backed forces in the Syrian army and militias loyal to Tehran are trying to smuggle hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of drugs across the Jordanian border to Persian Gulf markets.

Analysts in Tehran say President Ebrahim Raisi’s one-day visit to Oman Monday could be a sign of a possible breakthrough in the stalled Vienna nuclear talks.

An Iranian politician has accused Russia of derailing the nuclear talks and obstructing the revival of the 2015 deal that would have helped Iran economically.

An F-7 fighter jet of the Iranian Air Force crashed near the central city of Esfahan on Tuesday, killing both of the aircraft’s pilots.

An oil tanker carrying about one million barrels of Iranian crude arrived in recent days in Venezuelan waters for delivery to the country's largest refinery.

Human rights group Amnesty International says the number of executions in the world rose alarmingly last year, with Iran accounting for the biggest portion of this rise.

Following controversy over remarks by Qatar’s foreign minister suggesting that Iran's Supreme Leader is ready for compromise in nuclear talks, the country’s ruler said Doha is not playing an official mediating role.

Former British-Iranian hostage Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe says Iran forced her to sign a last-minute false confession at the airport before letting her board the plane as a UK Foreign Office official was witnessing.

The IRGC official killed by gunmen in Tehran Sunday was responsible for recruiting operatives for terror attacks against Israelis, an informed source has told Iran International.

A 10-storey building in Iran's southern city of Abadan partly collapsed on Monday, killing at least five people and trapping over 80 people under the debris.

Despite potential oil market competition, Iranian firms are planning to revamp Venezuela’s largest oil refinery, Reuters said Monday in an exclusive report.

A UN Special Rapporteur has come under fire for receiving donations from repressive regimes, but she says the media accusing her are in violation of ethics.

Trade unionist Reza Shahabi has been questioned while suffering from high blood pressure and other complaints, the campaign for his release said Monday.