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Twenty-six Iranian rights groups expressed fury over the appointment of the Islamic Republic as the chair of the UN Human Rights Council 2023 Social Forum.

It is looking ever more likely that the US is stepping up talks to kick-start nuclear talks with Iran despite denials from senior diplomats.

Iran’s Parliament Research Center says the country's poverty rate has reached over 30% since 2018.

Israeli President Isaac Herzog and his Azerbaijani counterpart Ilham Aliyev discussed the threat of Iran in Baku on Tuesday.

The US State Department is offering a reward of up to $10 million for information on the IRGC financial distributor to Hezbollah, Muhammad Qasir.

The United Arab Emirates said Wednesday that it withdrew from a US-led Middle East maritime security coalition two months ago after evaluating its security relationships.

Several Iranian female political activists have spoken up about prison guards unnecessarily forcing them to strip naked, even in front of cameras, to humiliate them.

South Korean media say Seoul and Washington are mulling over ways to release Iran’s $7 billion funds frozen due to US sanctions on Tehran.

Following the killing of at least three during clashes with Taliban forces, the commander of the IRGC Air Force said Monday that “such conflicts should not be overstated.”

Heated debates over a new bill about how to deal with women who refuse to observe compulsory hijab continues inside and outside the Iranian parliament.

Iran’s Minister of Interior has rebuffed the UN fact finding mission on Iran calling it a media war against the regime.

The United States Tuesday imposed punitive measures on two Syrian money services it said help the government maintain access to the international financial system in violation of sanctions.

Iranian state media claimed Tuesday that two contentious issues raised by the UN nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency have been resolved.

Businesses in Semirom city in Esfahan Province have gone on strike in protest to heavy charges against two local political prisoners.

Iran has banned protesting filmmakers from working after participating in the Cannes Film Festival without obtaining a permit.

A report, claimed by an opposition group to have been hacked from the Iranian presidency servers, advises the government to redefine its relations with Azerbaijan.

The Ukrainian Parliament approved the country’s National Security and Defense Council's decision to impose sanctions on Iran.

The removal of Iran’s top security official Ali Shamkhani came after he requested former President Mohammad Khatami to officiate his daughter’s wedding ceremony, says the UK-based Amwaj media.

Central Bank of Iran’s (CBI) latest figures indicate that in April inflation reached a level unprecedented since the Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran in 1942.

Russia launched its 17th mass air attack this month targeting Ukraine’s capital Kyiv, the third in as many days, this time using only Iranian-supplied drones.

OPEC will welcome Iran’s full return to the oil market when sanctions are lifted, the secretary general of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) said Monday.