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Iranian teachers have taken to streets in more nationwide protests after a two-day strike at their schools, as security forces arrested at least 7 activists.

A “lasting” agreement on reviving the 2015 Iran nuclear deal is reachable as soon as negotiators return to Vienna, Iran’s foreign affairs spokesman said Monday.

Reports have revealed that a manager in one of Iran’s semi-public companies has pocketed €230,000 for his business travels abroad.

US and Qatari leaders will discuss a broad agenda in Washington on Monday, including Iran and energy security in the aftermath of a potential Russian invasion of Ukraine, US officials said.

US President Joe Biden says Washington won't consider Taliban's legitimacy until Navy veteran Mark Frerichs is released by the group.

Iran-backed Houthis fired a missile at the United Arab Emirates in the third such attack in January, while Israeli President Isaac Herzog was visiting the country.

A Houthi in an interview with the IRGC-linked Tasnim Sunday has threatened the United Arab Emirates with "more effective and powerful strikes" in the future.

The European Union has decried a recent sentence for leading human rights campaigner Narges Mohammadi to eight years in prison and over 70 lashes.

The ultra-conservative daily Kayhan in Tehran has claimed that Iran's oil exports have surged recently, giving leverage to its negotiators in the nuclear talks.

As another Covid-19 wave hit Iran in January, reports say that over 30 members of parliament have contracted the coronavirus and up to ten are hospitalized.

Iran has announced it will reinstitute a buy-out scheme for the country’s compulsory military service, but only affluent people can afford the fees mentioned.

A conservative Iranian lawmaker has warned of massive uprisings in the country if the economic situation keeps deteriorating in the coming months.

‘Maximum pressure’ sanctions by the United States have clearly failed, Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei declared Sunday, quoting the US State Department.

Iranian parliament's budget review committee has rejected President Ebrahim Raisi's reform to eliminate the cheap dollar subsidy for importing essential goods.

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron have discussed ways to quicken the pace of Iran's nuclear talks in Vienna.

Voices calling for direct talks with the United States continue to be heard in Iran, as top officials recently signaled a shift in their hardline position.

A tweet by US Special Envoy for Iran Robert Malley about the Islamic Republic allowing women into the stadium for a football match has drawn criticism by hundreds of Iranians.

Iran's agriculture minister said Friday the Revolutionary Guards’ engineering arm Khatam ol-Anbia are to boost rice production with a $3 billion project.

A member of parliament has said Iran is ready to build up to 500,000 residential units in Syria as part of that country’s reconstruction projects.

An official of the Iran-Iraq chamber of commerce has denied reports by the Iranian state-run media that Iraq has released Iran’s funds blocked by US sanctions.

Guards and medical staff in a prison in Iran have attacked and beaten a number of political prisoners who had started a hunger strike.