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Iran on Saturday imposed sanctions on 24 more Americans in a largely symbolic move, as months of talks to revive a 2015 nuclear deal have stalled.

An Iranian lawmaker says the parliament is prepared to impeach President Ebrahim Raisi's economic ministers, but Majles leaders intentionally delay the process.

Some Iranian media report that an Iftar dinner by Iranian president Ebrahim Raisi was cancelled after most invited guests who were artists declined to attend.

Over 20 people arrested during protests seven years ago against water scarcity and distribution policies in south-west Iran have been sentenced to prison and lashes, the United States-based Human Rights Activists' News Agency (HRANA) said Saturday.

A prominent Iranian rights defender argues that sanctions should target violators of human rights in Iran, such as the Revolutionary Guards, not the people.

A group of US Republican senators have called on the administration to provide Israel with the military capabilities it needs to defend itself from a nuclear-armed Iran.

Opponents of a deal with Iran welcomed signals that President Joe Biden is opposed to delisting the Revolutionary Guard as a terror group, but questions linger.

Iran has seized a “foreign vessel” in the Persian Gulf for carrying “smuggled fuel”, Fars news website close to the Revolutionary Guard (IRGC) reported Saturday.

Some Iranian lawmakers have defended the foreign minister against hardliners who claim Iran's negotiators have made too many concessions in the nuclear talks.

The US State Department said Friday that President Joe Biden regards Iran’s Revolutionary Guard’s extraterritorial Qods (Quds) Force a terrorist group.

Iran’s capital Tehran on Friday had the worst air quality index in the world, according to data by IQAir -- a global air quality monitoring company.

A conservative newspaper in Tehran says the knife attack on clerics in Mashhad this week was an outcome of Iran's "wrong policy" about Afghan immigration.

Meta, formerly the Facebook company, has removed two Iranian cyberespionage groups that were targeting academics, activists, journalists and other victims.

Iran voted against the resolution move to suspend Russia from the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC), calling it “politically motivated”.

Supporters of Iran-backed Lebanese Hezbollah and Palestinian militant group Hamas held street parties celebrating the terrorist attack in downtown Tel Aviv.

US investigators are reportedly looking into whether two suspects arrested for impersonating federal agents could have been Iranian intelligence infiltrators.

United States forces say they have shot down a drone hovering near Ain al-Asad air base, which hosts American troops, in the Iraqi province of al-Anbar.

Along with a ceasefire in Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Yemen announced the return of their envoys to Lebanon as a sign of tension reduction among Arab states.

Fifteen human rights groups have urged international organizations to take action to stop Iran's persecution of witnesses testifying against its violations.

The top US general says he does not support removing Iran's Quds (Qods) Force, an arm of its Revolutionary Guards (IRGC), from a US terrorism list.

The US Treasury says Washington will not allow Iran to access in dollars its reserve assets maintained by the International Monetary Fund (IMF).