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Hundreds of local Sunnis Friday joined the congregation of a Friday prayer leader who was sacked last week by the dominant Shiite clerical establishment in Iran.

An Israeli source has told Iran International that Iran plans to make drone strikes the focus of its offensive activities across the region in the near future.

Iran’s intelligence minister Esmail Khatib says despite pressure by the United States and its allies Tehran currently has fewer problems in selling oil.

A senior Iranian commander has claimed that the military has deployed ballistic missiles, which can change targets in flight and render defenses ineffective.

An American academic who was imprisoned in Iran for 1,216 days is suing Princeton University, saying they sent him to study and then left him there without any support.

In line with Tehran’s efforts to imply that nuclear talks are progressing well, the state-run news agency IRNA says 80 percent of Iran’s demands are included in a draft.

The United States said Thursday it will counter Iran’s threat to international and regional security, after an arms shipment to Yemen’s Houthis was seized by the US Navy.

Iran has been able to boost oil exports to the extent that it has helped the economy grow by 3.3 percent this year, the government's news website said Friday.

The Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen destroyed an explosives-laden boat in the southern Red Sea before it could carry out an attack, Saudi state television said.

Iran’s foreign minister says the next round of talks between Tehran and Riyadh will be held in the Iraqi capital Baghdad in the near future.

Lebanon's top Christian party has indicated it is considering ending a political alliance with Iran-backed Hezbollah, threatening a fragile union that has shaped Lebanese politics for nearly 16 years.

Iraq's Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein has said in a news conference in Tehran Thursday, that "It is time for Iran and the United States to start direct talks."

Tehran's Tajrish Bazaar with its shrine, Christmas trees, and shopping for the Winter Solstice festival is a vignette of plurality of traditions at this time of year.

Talks to salvage the 2015 Iran nuclear deal will resume on Monday [December 27], two parties to the talks announced on Thursday.

Thousands of teachers across Iran have taken to the streets again, urging the release of their fellow teachers who were detained in previous protests.

US State Department told Iran International that the deceased former Iran envoy with Houthis was not the IRGC operator with a 15-million reward on his head.

A renowned sociologist in Iran says that a subtle shift has taken place in the nature of people's demands from political change to urgent economic and social issues.

The US Navy said on Wednesday that two of its patrol coastal ships seized a cargo of illicit weapons from a fishing vessel in the North Arabian Sea on Monday.

The Saudi-led coalition fighting Iran-aligned Houthi forces in Yemen said it launched air strikes against a Houthi security forces camp in the capital Sanaa.

US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan says the United States and other world powers have set a deadline "within weeks" for fruition of Iran nuclear talks.

The Iranian envoy to Sanaa who died Tuesday after evacuation to Tehran is suspected to be the Qods Force commander with a $15 million US price tag on his head.