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A former vice president and head of the environment department says the fate of the Iranian regime is contingent on saving the country's largest lake that has shrunk by 95 percent.

As Europe Tuesday warily welcomed Tehran’s latest input to nuclear talks, an Iran spokesman said Washington should “pay a price” if it again left an agreement.

Several US lawmakers and officials deplored the detention of Iranian-American Siamak Namazi on Tuesday, his 2500th day in Iran's notorious Evin prison.

A senior Iranian diplomat, Mehdi Safari says there is a conflict of interest between Iran and Russia in the energy sector, but there can be also cooperation.

A large group of people in the city of Shahrekord in southwest Iran held a protest rally on Tuesday after nine days with no piped water.

While Russia is holding joint military exercises with Iran’s Revolutionary guard and other Moscow allies in central Iran, Venezuela is also hosting sniper military exercises with these countries.

A drone attack hit a compound run by US troops and US-backed Syrian opposition fighters in possible revenge by Iran-backed militia over Israel-attributed strikes a day earlier.

Sixteen months after talks first began to revive the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, negotiations have boiled down to issue of sanctions and wording of a ‘final text.’

The Iranian judiciary says a Swedish citizen is detained in Iran on suspicion of espionage, adding that he might also face other charges.

Some women's rights activists on Monday staged flash mobs in Tehran to demand information on the whereabouts of a woman arrested for defying forced hijab.

A new congressional report has revealed that thousands of Afghan military personnel -- including a number of elite US-trained Afghan commandos – have fled to Iran.

The United States will reject any Iranian request for major changes to the text proposed by EU in the nuclear talks, a Western diplomat told Iran International.

Iran’s foreign minister says Tehran will give its final views on the EU-proposed text to revive the 2015 deal to the European Union’s coordinator of the Vienna talks by Monday midnight.

Iran’s Revolutionary Guard has confirmed that it is holding joint drone exercises with Russia at the Kashan Air Base, adding that Belarus and Armenia are also partaking in the drills.

A prominent conservative politician has warned of disillusioned voters and lamented Iran’s past annual oil income of $100 billion.

Texas Republican Senator Ted Cruz said on Sunday Iran’s incitement resulted in the assassination attempt on author Salman Rushdie, urging Washington to stop appeasing the Iranian regime.

After Iran's foreign ministry suggested author Salman Rushdie was to blame for the assault against him, the UK said it is "ludicrous" to suggest that novelist was responsible for the attack.

A series of Israeli airstrikes hit Iranian targets on Sunday close to Russia's main Syrian bases on the Mediterranean coast and areas near the ancestral home region of the Syrian president.

Discussions in Tehran on a European text aimed at reviving the 2015 Iran nuclear deal are at the “highest level,” the foreign ministry spokesman said Monday.

An Iranian lawmaker says Tehran does not need to send agents to the US to take revenge on American officials, and can recruit operatives from among the people there.

Iran’s foreign ministry on Monday denied any links with Hadi Matar, the man who stabbed author Salman Rushdie last week in New York, nearly killing him.