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The UN Special Rapporteur for Iran said in a report on Monday that Iran often uses lethal force against protesters exercising their right to peaceful assembly.

Iran’s foreign ministry has expressed concern about “terrorism, violence and extremism in Afghanistan”, one day ahead of a regional meeting in Tehran.

Iranian state TV's clip of one military officer slapping another during a public ceremony led to a deluge of speculation, theorizing, cheers, and condemnation.

Iran fed 20-percent uranium into an advanced centrifuge other than those already enriching to up to 60 percent at its Natanz site, the IAEA said on Monday.

US officials say they believe Iran was behind the drone attack last week at the military outpost in southern Syria where American troops are based.

A top Israeli official has told Iran International that an attack against Iran's nuclear targets has become a priority, as media say that training will begin.

Syrian said Israel attacked targets southern Syria on Monday in a frontier zone where Israel has long been concerned about the presence of Iran-backed groups.

Iran will hold a second meeting with EU's coordinator of the Iran nuclear talks, Enrique Mora, Tehran's top negotiator Ali Bagheri Kani tweeted on Monday.

In a rare admission the speaker of Iran’s parliament said Monday, “We could not accomplish anything” with 80 percent of the economy dominated by the government.

A Lebanese judge on Monday charged 68 people including 18 detainees with murder and incitement to sectarian strife over fatal clashes this month in Beirut.

Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi has made enough gaffes in just two months to be advised by a newspaper to seriously consider prevention and damage control.

An official has said that Iran has now the lowest birth rate in the Middle East after experiencing the fastest decline in births during the past three decades.

Iran’s oil refining capacity has declined by 11 percent in 8 years and its share of global refining is just 2 percent, despite its large reserves of crude oil.

The husband of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, detained for more than five years in Iran, has gone on a hunger strike again after she received another sentence.

Contradicting trade officials, the IRGC-linked Fars news agency has once again insisted that Iran is selling more than a million barrels p/d of oil to China.

The Secretary of Iran’s National Security Council threatened Sunday that an Israeli attack on his country’s nuclear sites will be met by a “devastating” response.

Mikhail Ulyanov, Russia's envoy to the IAEA, has asked what the refrain “soon” means in statements by Iran’s foreign minister about returning to nuclear talks.

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei in a speech on Sunday did not mention nuclear talks with the West and focused on Islamic unity and anti-American statements.

An alleged birthday party for EU envoy, Enrique Mora, who recently traveled to Tehran to discuss the nuclear talks, has led to controversy in the Iranian media.

The head of UN’s nuclear watchdog has reiterated in an interview with NBC that his agency’s monitoring system in Iran’s nuclear facilities is no longer intact.

President Ebrahim Raisi should tell the truth to the people instead of giving "formal" television interviews, a well-known conservative newspaper has said.