Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei's rejection of talks with the United States is final, Iran’s parliament speaker said, emphasizing that when Khamenei calls such negotiations “not honorable,” the decision is settled.
Iran’s currency, the rial, plunged to a record low of 891,000 per US dollar on Saturday, following Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei’s rejection of talks with Washington the day before.
Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said Saturday that the country’s diplomatic corps now bears an even greater responsibility after Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei firmly rejected negotiations with the United States.
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei met with senior Hamas officials in Tehran on Saturday, reaffirming Tehran’s support for the Palestinian group and renewing his criticism of the United States, a day after rejecting the possibility of nuclear talks.
Since his election, President Masoud Pezeshkian has faced attacks from hardliners, and now Reformist allies warn he could lose more public support if he fails to ease hardships from US sanctions.
Iran says it has officially launched the production line for Iridium Hexafluoride (IR46) at the Shahid Raeisi Nuclear Site in Isfahan (UCF site) on Saturday amid US pressure to curb Iran's nuclear program.
The Trump administration's "maximum pressure" policy on Iran will remain in place unless the Islamic Republic reaches a deal with the United States, the State Department told Iran International on Friday.
Syrian security forces arrested a former protocol officer at Deir ez-Zor airport in eastern Syria near the Iraqi border on charges of drug trafficking and antiquities smuggling, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported on Friday.
Iranian-Canadian activists fought for a decade to have Canada designate the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a terrorist organization, not to punish its hapless conscripts.
US President Donald Trump's policy on Iran is a muddle lacking any coherent strategy, his former national security advisor John Bolton told Iran International’s Eye for Iran podcast, speaking after Trump pulled his security detail despite an alleged death threat from Tehran.
German authorities have told Gazelle Sharmahd that the body of her father, Jamshid Sharmahd, has been returned to Germany after his death in an Iranian prison while awaiting execution, she told Iran International.
In a press conference that few saw coming, US president Donald Trump stood alongside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to announce a jaw-dropping plan to take over and rebuild Gaza.
US House Speaker Mike Johnson on Friday praised US President Donald Trump’s approach to Iran for ramping up pressure on Tehran and its regional allies, as a US senator called for additional sanctions on China over its role in Iran’s missile program.
The German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA) canceled a Berlin event featuring Iranian-American analyst Trita Parsi, citing security concerns after public backlash over his participation.
The economic impact of the so-called maximum pressure on Iran will be significant, with a zero-exports goal set by US president Donald Trump.
Dissident Iranian journalist and rights activist Masih Alinejad has been invited to the Munich Security Conference, according to a guest list seen by Iran International.
The Ham-Mihan newspaper in Tehran has cautioned President Masoud Pezeshkian that delaying a response to US President Donald Trump for direct talks would be more detrimental than making a poor decision.
The UN Special Rapporteur on Iran, Mai Sato, has sounded the alarm after Iran’s Supreme Court denied a judicial review for Pakhshan Azizi, a Kurdish political prisoner and humanitarian worker facing a death sentence.
US Deputy Special Envoy for the Middle East, Morgan Ortagus, said on Friday that Hezbollah's "reign of terror" in Lebanon and the region is over, crediting increased US pressure on Iran for the group's decline.
The Munich Security Conference has restored an invitation to Iranian exiled prince Reza Pahlavi after it rescinded it under pressure from the German Foreign Ministry, Iran International has learned.
Iran's ambassadors to France and the UK say they remain open to negotiations with the West, despite new US sanctions targeting Iran's oil exports and the reimposition of Trump-era maximum pressure policies.