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Three petroleum product reservoirs belonging to the Aftab Oil Refining company have caught fire in Iran's southern port city of Bandar Abbas, state media reported on Monday.

The spokesman of Iran’s foreign ministry says the country does not recognize the fact-finding mission mandated by the UN over Iran's human rights violations.

Iran’s has dismissed a lawsuit filed with the International Court of Justice by four countries over a Ukraine airliner downed in 2020 as politically motivated.

Iranian rights activist Narges Mohammadi has once again been summoned by the Evin Security Court.

Toomaj Salehi, a well-known Iranian rapper, dodged a death sentence, sentenced to over six years in jail, his lawyer revealed Monday.

Iran’s communications minister says he welcomes the satellite internet service providers, especially Starlink, but they have to comply with the country’s territorial rules.

Security forces fired tear gas and arrested several veterans of the Iran-Iraq war who had gathered in front of the Foundation of Martyrs and Veterans Affairs.

Another Iranian Kurdish political prisoner has succumbed to his injuries after being tortured in detention, human rights activists reported.

Kuwait and Saudi Arabia have "exclusive rights" in a gas field in the Persian Gulf disputed with Iran, Kuwait Oil Minister Saad Al Barrak reiterated on Sunday.

Iranians marked the 24th anniversary of a brutal attack on Tehran University students by vigilantes and security forces, which sparked widespread protests in July 1999.

A US federal court has ruled that the Islamic Republic regime should pay over $3.3 million in damages to Iranian activist Masih Alinejad for detaining her brother.

Two members of the European Parliament have again raised the issue of designating Iran’s IRGC as a terrorist group, demanding action by the EU authorities.

Israel and Saudi Arabia are a long way from a normalization agreement, US President Joe Biden said in a CNN interview broadcast on Sunday.

Iraqi sources claim the kidnapping of Russian-Israeli researcher Elizabeth Tsurkov was carried out to press Israel to release a detained Iranian.

Following an armed attack on a police station in Iran’s Sunni city of Zahedan Saturday, media affiliated with security forces have threatened the city’s top Sunni cleric.

Tehran University officials say members of Iraq's Shiite Hashd al-Shaabi militias and other proxies of the Islamic Republic can study at Iranian universities.

Kurdish human rights organizations say a political prisoner from Piranshahr in Iran’s West Azarbaijan province has been killed after being tortured while in detention.

President Ebrahim Raisi has endorsed a law that adds Chinese to the list of foreign languages that can be taught in Iranian middle and high schools.

An Iranian lawmaker insisted on Saturday that the annual inflation rate in Iran is 120 percent, not 60 or 70 percent as various politicians and academics cite.

While Iran's UN envoy says Tehran is prepared to resume talks over the 2015 nuclear deal, a seasoned ex-diplomat says Tehran should accept the Western terms.

The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development says Iran's share of attracting foreign investment last year was only one tenth of a percent (one thousandth) of the world total.