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Iran’s capital Tehran on Tuesday registered red air quality alert and ranked as the world’s fourth most polluted city where all population groups are at risk.

Iran is planning its next budget on the assumption that US economic sanctions will continue, but is forecasting more than one million barrels p/d oil exports.

A former revolutionary says Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei is personally responsible for the "the atrocities committed" against peaceful protesters in Esfahan.

The Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen said on Tuesday it launched air raids on "legitimate" Houthi military targets including a "secret" site belonging to the Iranian Revolutionary Guards.

Iran’s nuclear talks resumed Monday with formal discussions between remaining members of the 2015 deal, the JCPOA, with Washington due to take part indirectly.

An early round of Iran’s resumed Vienna talks with world powers took place Monday with a positive reaction from the European Union official chairing the meeting.

Iranian reporters have revealed that they were told by the government to avoid raising public expectations about the outcome of the nuclear talks in Vienna.

Israel's prime minister on Monday called on world powers not to "give in to Iran's nuclear blackmail" as negotiations commenced in Vienna.

Rents in Iran have jumped 47 percent this year in line with general inflation amid sanctions, putting tremendous pressure on millions of people in large cities.

Iran said Monday that the "real sides" in Vienna nuclear talks should make a deal with Tehran because the window of opportunity "will not remain open forever".

An Iranian prosecutor says 124 people have been indicted in absentia for the killing of Iran’s general Qasem Soleimani by US drones in Baghdad, in January 2020.

Hardliners in Iran call the new negotiating team sent to Vienna “revolutionary forces”, and pouring scorn on the United States, while also attacking Israel.

Britain and Israel will "work night and day" to prevent Iran from becoming a nuclear power, the foreign ministers of the two countries wrote in a joint article.

The heavy presence of financial officials in Iran's new negotiating team highlights Tehran’s focus on lifting US sanctions in talks starting in Vienna, Monday.

Iran, Turkmenistan and Azerbaijan have signed a gas swap deal for up to 2 billion cubic meters per year, Iranian state news agency IRNA reported on Sunday.

Iranian human rights groups abroad have reported on Sunday that 214 protesters in Esfahan have been arrested and 30 others are in hospitals with eye injuries.

Both far-right and far-left politicians in Iran are proposing new cash handouts to poverty-stricken citizens amid skyrocketing food prices many cannot afford.

Hardline media in Iran claim that the United States instigated protests in Esfahan to put pressure on Tehran ahead of nuclear talks set to resume on Monday.

Iran’s health minister has warned about the possibility of the new coronavirus variant, Omicron, spreading in the country but did not announce any travel bans.

Israel worries Iran will secure a windfall in sanctions relief in renewed nuclear talks but will not sufficiently roll back its bomb-making potential, Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said on Sunday.

Victims’ families of an airliner downed by Iran in 2020 protested Sunday rejecting a trial of junior officers and demanding top officials to be held to account.