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Advisers to US president-elect Donald Trump are crafting a wide-ranging sanctions strategy to squeeze Iran, Bloomberg reported citing people familiar with the matter.

A strategic cooperation agreement that Russia and Iran are set to sign will not include a mutual defense clause, unlike agreements Moscow has signed with Pyongyang and Minsk, Russia's news agency cited Iran's envoy as saying on Thursday.

Iran’s UN ambassador says Iran is not involved in or supporting the training of the Yemeni Houthis, responding to a recent report by the UN Panel of Experts on Yemen.

Even as a long-sought ceasefire in Gaza has yet to take effect, Iran's supreme leader and other top officials have already begun celebrating it as a victory for Palestinian fighters backed by Tehran.

A report by Iran's Central Bank has inadvertently highlighted the pervasiveness of insider dealings and corruption that threaten the integrity of Iran’s entire banking system.

The spokesman for Iran's Ministry of Foreign Affairs said Thursday that Trump advisor Elon Musk had no involvement in the recent release of Italian journalist Cecilia Sala, as reported in US media.

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said Iran opposes war and violence during his visit to Tajikistan, his first international trip of 2025.

Iran's ultraconservatives condemned President Masoud Pezeshkian for his comments to NBC News, in which he denied Iran’s intention to assassinate President-elect Donald Trump.

Iran's IRGC called the ceasefire between Israel and Iran-backed Hamas a "conquest" for the Palestinian resistance in a statement Thursday.

When a key advisory body in Iran started revisiting the contentious issue of acceding to international monetary conventions, it not only faced opposition from hardliners but also raised questions about whether the Supreme Leader has moderated his stance.

Prominent Iranian satirist and author Ebrahim Nabavi died by suicide in Maryland on Tuesday night, his family said in a statement to Iran International.

The United States should not rule out any arrangement with Iran that leads to peace and security in the Middle East, president-elect Donald Trump’s pick for state secretary Senator Marco Rubio said on Wednesday.

A widespread network of brokers online are working to facilitate a trade in eggs, sperm, embryos and surrogate wombs, Iranian newspaper Ham-Mihan reported in an investigation.

Decisions concerning Iran's nuclear doctrine are made exclusively by the nation’s highest authorities, the head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) said on Wednesday.

Israel and Hamas have reached a ceasefire deal to end the Gaza war, US President Joe Biden announced on Wednesday, over 15 months after the October 7 attack by Iran-backed militants triggered the bloody conflict.

The Seed of the Sacred Fig, the latest film made by Iranian dissident filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof, has been nominated in BAFTA's hotly contested Film Not In The English Language category.

While many analysts agree that Iran finds itself in a weakened position, a conservative commentator inside Iran claims that the unstable situation might shift in Tehran's favour.

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has arrived in Tajikistan for his first foreign visit of 2025.

Ahmadreza Jalali, an Iranian-Swedish scientist currently sentenced to death in Iran, accused the Swedish government of neglecting his case in an audio message from Evin Prison.

Iran’s navy unveiled its first signals intelligence (SIGINT) vessel, Zagros, on Wednesday, said to be designed for electronic surveillance and cyber intelligence operations.

The latest US sanctions targeting Russian and Iranian oil could significantly disrupt Russia's oil supply chains, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said in its monthly report on Wednesday.