Iran

Iran would retaliate against any oil company unloading Iranian oil from a seized tanker, a senior Commander of Iran's Revolutionary Guards' Navy said on Thursday, amid heightened tensions between...

Iran's foreign minister has said that his country shares a lot of "common denominators" with Egypt, Russia Today has reported. Egypt now has an Iranian affairs office and Tehran...

Nestled within the verdant forests of Ramyan City in Iran's Golestan province, Gol-e-Ramian Spring captivates and locals alike and offers solace from sweltering temperatures and a respite in the...

US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, on Tuesday signed a new national security waiver letting Iraq pay Iran for electricity that, for the first time, allows such payments to...

Dog and cat owners in Jordan have been advised to take precautions amid a reported outbreak of cystic echinococcosis, a tapeworm disease that if left untreated may lead to...

The United States is taking defensive measures to confront the challenges resulting from the unsafe behaviour of Russian aircraft in Syria, the State Department said yesterday. "We have noticed...

Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian has expressed Tehran's rejection of any Russian or international interference in Iran's territorial integrity and the issue of the three islands which are in...

Iran's Foreign Minister discussed the situation in Afghanistan with the UN's point man on the war-torn nation, as Russia has invited ruling Taliban officials to a meeting in Moscow,...

Iran and Pakistan have agreed to enhance defence cooperation and coordinate on border security following a meeting on Saturday in Tehran between the commander of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard...

The Iranian authorities announced yesterday a new campaign to force women to respect the country's strict "dress code" in public places with the so-called morality police returning to the...

Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia Al-Sudani began an official visit to Syria on Sunday, the first by an Iraqi premier since the outbreak of the Syrian war in 2011,...

The United States is sending F-16 fighter jets to the Gulf this weekend to reinforce its presence in the region amid an increase in Iranian harassment of oil tankers....

A barter of Iranian natural gas for Iraqi oil as described by the Iraqi Prime Minister this week would likely violate US sanctions on Tehran unless the US issued a waiver...

Once again, the world has witnessed the escalation of violence, bombing, destruction and deaths perpetrated by the terrorist state of Israel in the occupied Palestinian territories. This time it...

It's been quite a busy year for Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi in terms of diplomatic engagement. In February he made an official state visit to China, where 20 agreements...

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has released 15 Iranians from prison, amid the recent warming of relations between Abu Dhabi and Tehran. According to Iran's state-affiliated Fars News Agency,...

Iraq will start paying for its Iranian gas imports with oil, to circumvent the complicated mechanism agreed with Washington in order not to contravene US sanctions, the Prime Minister...

Iraq is in the grip of a severe water shortage which has left crop growers and food producers, such as Iraqi fish farmer, Qasem Karam, facing the loss of...

Raisi's African visit, the first by an Iranian leader since 2013, follows a visit in June to three Latin American countries.

Iran has summoned the Russian Ambassador in Tehran, Alexey Dedov, following a joint statement by Russia and the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) that affirmed their support for the United...

Germany will not deliver Eurofighter combat aircraft to Saudi Arabia in the near future, German Chancellor, Olaf Scholz, said on Wednesday, after a newspaper quoted a government document as...

Shlaim recalls a time when indigenous Jews resided in Muslim-majority lands harmoniously alongside their Muslim and Christian neighbours and how Israel worked to destabilise their ties

Iran's Foreign Ministry will follow up on the Durra gas field known as Arash in Iran, the country's Oil Minister, Javad Owji, said on Wednesday according to semi-official Tasnim...

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi arrived in Nairobi today as the part of the first leg of his three-nation tour of Africa, which will cover Uganda and Zimbabwe as well...

Indonesia's coastguard said, on Tuesday, it seized an Iranian-flagged super tanker suspected of involvement in the illegal trans-shipment of crude oil, and vowed to toughen maritime patrols, Reuters reports....

The head of a US think tank is currently on the run after being charged with being an agent of China and attempting to broker the sale of weapons...

An Iranian Revolutionary Guards Commander accused the US Navy on Monday of defending fuel smuggling in the Gulf by trying to interfere when Iran intercepted a ship last week,...

Kuwait and Saudi Arabia have "exclusive rights" in the Durra gas field in the Arabian Gulf, Kuwait Oil Minister, Saad Al Barrak, said on Sunday, and he called on...

Wounded Iranian veterans from the 1980-1988 war with Iraq took to the streets to protest against low pension. One man praised former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein calling him 'good', as others chanted 'Thank you, Saddam'. Iranian security forces cracked down on the demonstrators and used tear gas to disperse them.

Algerian Foreign Minister Ahmed Attaf has conveyed President Abdelmadjid Tebboune's support for the "positive movement" in Arab-Iranian relations. This came in his meeting with Iranian President Ibrahim Raisi on...

Iran has publicly executed two people over a Daesh attack on a Shia shrine in the city of Shiraz last year. According to Iran's judiciary, the two men –...

The Iraqi government has opened an investigation into the kidnapping of Israeli citizen, Elizabeth Tsurkov, in Baghdad in March, a government spokesperson told Reuters on Friday. Tsurkov went missing...