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A tweet from Russia’s lead negotiator in the Iran nuclear talks Tuesday found progress in discussion in Vienna over Tehran’s atomic program and US sanctions.

Iran’s labor minister has described unemployment as the main problem of the country, second only to inflation, but said it is not the ministry’s task to create jobs.

An Iranian human rights monitoring group based abroad has reported over 2,300 protest rallies in the country in 2021, with most events related to labor issues.

Iranian retirees held demonstrations in the capital Tehran and several other cities to protest their low pensions that have left them at the verge of poverty.

Experts and media are warning Iran's government of serious consequnces if it stops allocating cheap dollars for essential imports in next year's budget.

Twitter users have started a campaign to protest the detention of Iranian rights activist Narges Mohammadi as she is being held in solitary confinement for 42 days.

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi will pay an official state visit to Russia in 2022, upon an invitation by Russian President Vladimir Putin, Iran said Tuesday.

Israeli warplanes have fired missiles at the port of the Syrian coastal city of Latakia, causing large explosions and massive material damage, Syria said.

A former lawmaker says the hardline majority in Iran's parliament is wasting time on a bill to restrict internet access instead of tackling the economic crisis.

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said on Tuesday that Israel would not automatically oppose a nuclear deal with Iran but world powers must take a firmer position.

Iran’s former president Hassan Rouhani has warned the Supreme Leader over the economic perils of delaying a nuclear deal with the West, some sources have said.

European Union represnetative at Iran nuclear talks, Enrique Mora, spoke Monday of “weeks not months” to agree over reviving the 2015 agreement, the JCPOA.

Diplomats from Iran and world powers have started the eighth round of talks in Vienna to revive the 2015 nuclear agreement (JCPOA).

A British minister says he United Kingdom has included the Islamic Republic in its list of hostile nations along with Russia, China, and North Korea.

Iran has called on the three western European states to enter resumed Vienna nuclear talks with a focus on reaching agreement as quickly as possible.

Iraq's Supreme Court Monday rejected appeals by Iran-backed Shi'ite factions against the results of the October parliamentary election, the chief judge said.

Iran plans to appoint a new ambassador to Houthi rebels in Yemen after the death of its previous envoy, the foreign ministry spokesman said on Monday.

Fars news agency in Tehran affiliated with the IRGC said Monday that recent wargames were meant to give bargaining power to Iran’s nuclear negotiators in Vienna.

Iran says over nine million liters of fuel is smuggled out of the country every day, citing highly subsidized prices as the main reason for the illicit trade.

Iran’s foreign minister has said talks aimed at reviving the 2015 nuclear agreement resume in Vienna based on a "new document" replacing a preliminary draft from June.

Iran's negotiation team has arrived in the Austrian capital Vienna to resume talks with world powers over the country’s nuclear program.