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While Washington reiterated Friday that “substantial progress” is being made in nuclear talks with Iran, critics continued to express concern over a "bad deal."

Except for the state-run broadcaster (IRIB), street interviews about controversial issues such as direct negotiations with the US are rare in Iranian media.

Iran has seized a cargo of antique goods and ancient artifacts smugglers planned to take out through Turkey.

A drone flown by Lebanese militant group Hezbollah crossed into northern Israel on Friday, triggering air defenses and the scrambling of fighter jets.

While Iran’s parliament is halfway through its four-year term, commentators say most of the lawmakers are unlikely to convince voters to re-elect them in 2024.

A senior European Union official said Friday that a US-Iranian deal to revive Iran's 2015 nuclear agreement was close but success depended on the political will of those involved.

Tens of Iranian students staged a protest outside the Indian embassy in Tehran to protest a ban on hijab in colleges in the southern Indian state of Karnataka.

Nine human rights organizations have called on world powers negotiating with Iran in Vienna “not to lift human rights sanctions on the Islamic Republic of Iran.”

OPEC and its oil exporting allies will integrate Iran into their oil supply accord should a nuclear agreement be reached in Vienna and US sanctions lifted.

An “exclusive” report by Reuters Thursday on nuclear talks in Vienna was “misinformation disguised as reporting,” an Iranian spokesman tweeted Friday.

An oil refiner from India has started negotiations with the Islamic Republic to resume crude imports as soon as the nuclear deal is finalized.

Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian left Tehran Friday morning for Germany to participate in the 58th Munich Security Conference (MSC).

Parliament has dealt a blow to the Iranian government’s plan to balance the budget by refusing to ditch indirect food subsidies, fearing a public backlash.

Persian-language television channels Iran International and Voice of America Thursday aired a documentary about the life of Baktash Abtin, an Iranian poet who died in custody in January.

Rumors have resurfaced that China will deploy 5,000 security forces to Iran to protect its investments, raising public concern over secrecy in dealings with Beijing.

A website in Tehran has published an article by Siamak Namazi, an Iranian American jailed in Iran since 2015, amid news that Iran and the United States are holding talks for a possible prisoner exchange.

A Western source close to indirect talks between Iran and the United States confirmed to Iran International that release of Western prisoners is part of the overall negotiations.

Japanese oil and energy corporation ENEOS has announced its readiness to resume Iranian oil imports within two to three months of any revival of the 2015 Iran nuclear deal.

A US-Iranian deal taking shape in Vienna lays out phases of mutual steps to bring both sides back into full compliance with the 2015 nuclear agreement, Reuters reported.

Members of the European Parliament have called on Iran to introduce an immediate moratorium on the use of the death penalty as a step towards abolishing it and commuting all death sentences.

Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah traveled to Iran around two months ago when Tehran asked him to respond to any possible Israeli strike on Iran nuclear sites.