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The UN Security Council and the United States have condemned the intrusion and seizure of the now-closed US Embassy in Yemen and the detention of its local staff.

A leading conservative newspaper in Iran has called on the government to cut-off the budget it allocates to Shiite seminaries and by extension to many clerics.

Keeping pets has become a symbol of affluence in Iran, can be dangerous, and should be prohibited, a member of parliament from Esfahan province has suggested.

Israel's national security adviser has called Iran the "most destabilizing force in the region", a threat to civilian life and "feeding on chaos" in the region.

Israeli President Isaac Herzog began an official three-day visit to the United Kingdom on Sunday where he will meet top officials to discuss Iran's nuclear issue.

Hackers have disabled the website of a large Iranian airline, Mahan, on Sunday, sending messages to customers claiming they also accessed sensitive information.

Iran’s first vice president said Sunday that the Islamic Republic has become so powerful no regional or world power can make a decision without Tehran.

The commander of IRGC's navy says that in clashes with the US Navy 9 of its sailors have been killed, without providing details or timing of any fatal incident.

Critics say President Ebrahim Raisi's wrong choice of officials will hurt efforts to attract foreign investment and is prompting talented Iranians to emigrate.

Yemen's Iran-backed Houthi movement said on Saturday it had fired 14 drones at several Saudi cities, including at Saudi Aramco facilities in Jeddah.

Bahrain's foreign minister, Abdullatif Al Zayani, said on Saturday that Lebanon needs to demonstrate that its powerful Iran-allied Hezbollah movement can change its behavior to mend a rift with Gulf Arab states.

The flagship hardline newspaper Kayhan criticized Saturday the notion of an interim arrangement as step towards reviving Iran’s nuclear deal with world powers.

Unknown perpetrators hurled an incendiary device at the entrance of Iran’s consulate in the northern German city of Hamburg Friday, which is being investigated.

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin sought on Saturday to reassure nervous allies in the Middle East that the Biden Administration was committed to the region.

Iran’s Revolutionary Guard has seized an oil tanker “for smuggling diesel” in the Persian Gulf region, days before nuclear talks are set to resume in Vienna.

President Ebrahim Raisi's "inaction" and "indecision" have frustrated Iran's conservatives and hardliners in parliament who supported him just weeks ago.

Iran’s foreign minister Saturday condemned the British government’s decision on Friday to ban the Palestinian Hamas militant group under UK's Terrorism Act.

Some hardline media in Iran have called the Iran Atrocities Tribunal, held in London last week, a British stunt to shift attention from £400 million owed Iran.

As night fell in Esfahan where large crowds protested Friday, Internet connection in the city center were cut and riot police trucks appeared on the streets.

Iran’s foreign ministry spokesman has told state television that the United States should lift sanctions “at once” to return to the 2015 nuclear agreement.

Telling the truth is a crime in Iran, says journalist Mohammad Mosaed, winner of the 2020 press freedom award of the US-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ).