Iran

TEHRAN: A 'terrorist' attack killed four members of Iran's security forces in the country's southeast, the state news agencyIRNA reported on Monday. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps members were killed "during a terrorist act" in…

DUBAI: Iran said Monday it executed its second prisoner detained amid the nationwide protests now challenging the country's theocracy. Iran's Mizan news agency, under the country's judiciary, identified the man executed as Majidreza…

DUBAI: Saudi Arabia's foreign minister said on Sunday that Iran's Gulf Arab neighbours would act to shore up their security if Tehran were to obtain nuclear weapons. Indirect US-Iranian talks to salvage a 2015 nuclear pact between global…

BAGHDAD: Sanctions-hit Iran is consolidating its hold over neighbouring Iraq, an economic lifeline where pro-Tehran parties dominate politics, all to the chagrin of the United States, experts say. For years, Iraq has been caught in a…

PARIS: The sister of Iran's supreme leader has slammed his "despotic" rule and thrown her support behind protests ignited by Mahsa Amini's death, in a letter published Wednesday by her son. Protests have gripped Iran since Mahsa Amini,…

TEHRAN: Iran has sentenced to death five people over the killing of a Basij paramilitary force member during nationwide protests sparked by Mahsa Amini’s death following her arrest by the morality police, the judiciary said on Tuesday.…

TEHRAN: Iran has sentenced to death five people over the killing of a member of the Basij paramilitary forceduring nationwide protests, the judiciary said Tuesday. Another 11 people, including three children, were handed lengthy jail…

PARIS: Iranian activists and Western nations on Monday dismissed a claim that the protest-hit Islamic republic is disbanding its notorious morality police, insisting there was no change to women’s rights. Iranian shops shut their doors…

DUBAI: Iranian shops shut their doors in several cities on Monday, following calls for a three-day nationwide general strike from protesters seeking the fall of clerical rulers, with the head of the judiciary blaming "rioters" for…

CAIRO: Iran on Saturday began construction on a new nuclear power plant in the country's southwest, Iranian state TV announced, amid tensions with the US over sweeping sanctions imposed after Washington pulled out of the Islamic…