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Tit-for-tat attacks have continued between the US military and Iranian-backed forces in Syria, who threaten more strikes as US vows to protect its personnel.

An Iranian official says China’s private sector has entered the port city of Bandar Abbas on the Persian Gulf to evaluate logistics and investment opportunities.

A relatively moderate politician says Iranians no longer believe in the reformist-conservative dichotomy that has been the mainstay of regime politics for 25 years.

Protests erupted again in Iran’s Sunni majority region Friday as community’s prominent religious leader slammed Islamic Republic for its violence and lack of real elections.

Moderate Iranian news website Rouydad 24, which has been a relatively good source of news about developments in Iran, has been blocked by the country’s authorities.

The Biden administration has agreed to a sanctions waiver that will see the Islamic Republic pocket a $500 million payment from Iraq for electricity and natural gas Baghdad imports.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with his British counterpart Rishi Sunak in London to discuss where Iran’s nuclear threat was discussed among other issues.

A statement by Gen. Mark Milley, Chairman of the US Joint Staff, about Iran’s development of nuclear weapons has raised eyebrows of experts and observers.

A petition launched against the meagre minimum wage increase for the new Iranian year violates the labor law by disregarding the inflation rate, critics say.

Amid simmering tensions over the observance of the Iranian regime’s strict Islamic dress code, police arrested three Iranians who confronted hijab enforcers.

Tehran-linked groups targeted US forces in Syria for a second day in a row Friday, after the United States conducted an air strike against their bases following a drone strike Thursday.

A war monitor says the US airstrikes on positions of Iran-backed militias in eastern Syrian city of Deir ez-Zur (Deyrizor) have killed eights militiamen, after a deadly drone strike targeted American forces in the area.

Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Ground Force commander visited border regions in the northwest near Armenia and Azerbaijan where tensions between the two Transcaucasian countries have spiked.

The Nowruz holidays weren’t the happiest of days for Iran’s diplomats at the UN in Geneva, coinciding as it did with a highly critical report by the UN’s Special Rapporteur Javaid Rehman.

The US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen says Washington is mulling over new ways to strengthen its sanctions against the Islamic Republic.

The US military carried out air strikes in Syria Thursday night against Iran-backed militia groups who it blamed for a deadly drone attack on its forces.

The ultraconservative Paydari [Steadfastness] party is often blamed in Iran for most of the country's political, economic and social-cultural problems.

A large crowd of Iranian expatriates held a big rally in Brussels to once again urge the EU countries to designate Iran’s Revolutionary Guard as a terrorist organization.

The intelligence protection unit Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei’s offices has reportedly arrested and interrogated three people on suspicion of disclosing secret documents.

Despite US sanctions Iran has reached its highest level of oil exports in at least two years surpassing 1.3 million barrels per day, the finance minister says.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is due in London to discuss solutions to Iran’s continued nuclear armament.