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Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz has appeared before a key Knesset committee to argue for a higher defense budget, citing Iran as the major threat.

Iran’s president Ebrahim Raisi has said that young Iranians are not attracted to Western culture any longer, while hundreds of thousands emigrate every year.

Production of the Fakhravac Covid vaccine, one of eight Iranian inoculations developed by the defense ministry is to stop due to lack of demand as imports grow.

A female Iranian political prisoner has told her family that she has been repeatedly subjected to strip-down searches in various detention centers.

President Ebrahim Raisi's honeymoon with Iran's hardliners in and out of the parliament (Majles) seems to be over, as criticism has mounted.

The leader of Lebanon's Iran-backed Hezbollah has declared for the first time on Monday that his powerful militant group has 100,000 trained fighters.

With Iran nuclear talks stalled, Israel reportedly appropriated $1.5 billion to prepare for a potential strike at Iran, as US tested a new bunker-buster bomb.

Talks in Brussels are not necessary before the resumption of indirect nuclear talks with Iran in Vienna, State Department spokesperson Ned Price said Monday.

Iran's hardline President Ebrahim Raisi said on Monday that the US should lift sanctions, as Tehran has refused to return to nuclear talks since in June.

Iran's cultural heritage minister, denied Sunday there was any plan to dig agricultural wells near the tomb of Cyrus the Great in the ancient Achaemenid site, Pasargadae.

Iran’s foreign minister has said a 20-year cooperation agreement will be concluded with Venezuela during Nicolas Maduro’s trip to Iran in the coming months.

In confirming Monday their diplomats would meet in Brussels to review Iran’s stalled nuclear talks, EU foreign policy chief and Iran’s foreign ministry did not name a day.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad ended his Dubai trip on Sunday after the Iranian Consulate prevented him from holding a press conference, sources told Iran International.

A Russia-led post-Soviet security bloc started its largest military drills near the Tajik-Afghan border in years on Monday amid tensions ahead of talks between Afghanistan's new Taliban leaders and major regional powers.

Iran’s foreign ministry spokesman, Saeed Khatibzadeh has said on Monday that talks with Saudi Arabia “have been cordial and to the same degree serious”.

Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi (Raeesi), in a rare move, has appointed two active-duty Revolutionary Guard commanders as governors in two key provinces.

In a visit to Moscow on Monday, the head of Iran’s Armed Forces Joint Staff Mohammad Bagheri said that Afghanistan is a special issue for bilateral discussions.

More than two months after his inauguration as Iran's new hardline President, Ebrahim Raisi (Raeesi) has completed the setup of his key economic team.

Iran’s Revolutionary Guards will take a share of an ambitious housing construction project promised by the government, that could cost billions of dollars.

An Iranian lawmaker and an industry official say that Chinese vessels have been avoiding Iranian ports and Iranian ships are not allowed into Chinese ports.

Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi has ordered all ministries and agencies to coordinate efforts in “neutralizing” US sanctions and defending the national currency.