
Iran, Armenia Reject Azerbaijani Drug-Smuggling Accusations
Ali Shamkhani, Iran’s top security official, warned Azerbaijan to avoid "costly traps set by devils" after President Ilham Aliyev accused Iran and Armenia of colluding in drug trafficking.

Ali Shamkhani, Iran’s top security official, warned Azerbaijan to avoid "costly traps set by devils" after President Ilham Aliyev accused Iran and Armenia of colluding in drug trafficking.

A roundtable discussion in Tehran has revealed two different visions about the economic future of Iran - improved ties with the world or reliance on the East.

Farmers in Esfahan entered the office of a lawmaker and demanded he deliver on his promise of prayers for rain, saying they would not leave until it rains.

The new head of the Revolutionary Guard’s Media Basij Organization, a propaganda outfit, says Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei is not happy with the media in Iran.

EU Foreign Policy Chief Josep Borrell said Friday that he would meet with Iranian diplomats for nuclear talks in Brussels instead of Vienna, the main venue of talks.

Saudi Arabian Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan said on Friday that Iran was accelerating its nuclear activities and putting the region in “a very dangerous place”.

Iran’s foreign ministry harshly condemned a terror attack on a Shiite mosque in Afghanistan on Friday that killed at least 35 people, blaming Sunni extremists.

The visit of a top EU official to Tehran seems not to have produced any immediate results for resuming nuclear talks in Vienna, European officials indicate.

Saudi Arabia says talks with Iran have not made sufficient progress to restore full diplomatic relations, but it is “serious about” ongoing bilateral talks.

Based on figures published by Iran’s census registration bureau, 791 babies were born in the past six months from mothers aged 10-14 years-old.

Iran has condemned the killing of protesters in Lebanon, describing Thursday's shootings as seditions backed by Israel, state-run Press TV said on Friday.

In a string of visits by Middle Eastern allies to Washington this week Saudi Arabia’s foreign minister has also met with the Secretary of State to discuss Iran.

A member of the Iranian Parliament's has pulled back from an assertion that officials were in talks with Chinese companies over building affordable housing.

Iran's former president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad strolling at the Dubai Expo 2021 has said that political borders and religious, racial divides are created by Satan.

By the end of the current Iranian fiscal year, the government needs an additional $12 billion to balance its budget, with revenues falling short of projections.

The United States will offer an additional $67 million to support the Lebanese army, US Under Secretary of State Victoria Nuland said in Beirut on Thursday.

Teachers in Iran held protest rallies in several cities to demand the passage of legislation that would guarantee higher pay amid skyrocketing inflation.

Ankara has announced it arrested an Iranian agent and seven Turks Sept. 24 over an alleged plot to abduct an ex-Iranian military official and render him to Iran.

Enrique Mora, European Union’s lead negotiator on Iran’s nuclear issue met with Ali Bagheri, political deputy of Iran’s foreign ministry in Tehran, on Thursday.

Iran-backed forces in Syria said on Thursday they would respond forcefully to an Israeli strike on Wednesday evening in the second such strike within a week.

At least two people were killed in Beirut on Thursday when heavy gunfire targeted supporters of the Shi'ite group Hezbollah, as they headed to a protest demanding the removal of the judge investigating last year's explosion at the city's port.