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Bahrain became another Persian Gulf Arab state to appoint its first ambassador to Damascus on Thursday since it downgraded ties early in the conflict in Syria.

The US Navy seized a stateless fishing vessel on Monday, believed to have originated in Iran, carrying $4 million worth of heroin in the Arabian Sea.

The rising number of metro train accidents in Iran is due to a serious need of overhaul for most of the existing wagons, a new report has revealed.

The head of Iran’s atomic organization said Thursday that curbing the sector’s development would disillusion talented young people and those active in the field.

In his latest spat with current premier Naftali Bennett, former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has attacked his rival’s approach to Iran and the Vienna nuclear talks.

Iran announced Thursday a rocket launch carrying three research devices amid nuclear talks with world powers, although it was unclear if any reached orbit.

Iran’s chief negotiator at the Vienna nuclear talks met Thursday with the three European participants in the 2015 nuclear deal, before negotiations take a New Year recess.

The Omicron variant of the coronavirus has spread in a dozen Iranian provinces, bringing confirmed cases to 43, the health ministry announced on Thursday.

Less than five months in power, President Ebrahim Raisi’s government already faces pressure by parliament to mitigate the deep economic crisis gripping Iran.

Saudi Arabia's King Salman has expressed concern about Iran's lack of cooperation with the international community on its nuclear and ballistic missile programs.

The Russian envoy to the Iran nuclear talks said Wednesday that he had met with his US counterpart in Vienna, where the eighth round of talks is taking place.

Indirect talks between Iran and the United States in Vienna have picked up pace although challenges remain, a Western diplomat told Iran International Wednesday.

After intense talks in Vienna for reviving the 2015 nuclear deal more observers in Iran expressed optimism on Wednesday that an agreement might be within reach.

Iran says Qasem Soleimani was assassinated with the direct order of former US president Donald Trump, vowing to bring the perpetrators to justice.

The Iranian government’s official newspaper has said that Iran sells its oil so cheap that the risk of circumventing US sanctions is worth taking for buyers.

Israel is considering several scenarios for an attack on Iran, with its military saying it can act immediately if it received the go ahead from the government.

Iran’s deputy minister for industry and trade has said that bank seizures of companies and factories has increased this year, amid a deepening economic crisis.

As the United States State Department expressed caution Tuesday over progress in the Vienna nuclear talks Iranian officials and media said a deal could be near.

Dangerous levels of air pollution in Esfahan, Tabriz and more than a dozen other major Iranian cities have shut down schools and kindergartens.

After eighth months of diplomatic attempts to revive the 2015 nuclear deal, Iran is still refusing to sit down with the United States, the main party to the dispute.

A woman in the religious city of Qom was arrested for arguing with a cleric and trampling on his turban after he and another cleric warned her over her hijab.