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Iran’s government is working behind the scenes with hardliners in parliament to restrict Internet access, a lawmaker has charged amid major service disruptions.

Talks over Iran’s nuclear program resumed in Vienna Thursday with Enrique Mora, the senior European official, set mediating between Iran and the United States.

Saudi Arabia has reiterated worries over Iran’s lack of transparency with international nuclear inspectors, and its non-compliance with obligations under international nuclear agreements.

A hardliner newspaper in Iran has accused Tehran's ‘reformist’ media of carrying out psychological warfare designed by the "enemy", meaning the United States.

Iran’s intelligence ministry said Thursday it has arrested a group of 10 Islamic State (ISIS) militants, hired by Israel to plan attacks on religious mourning ceremonies during Muharram.

Iran’s Supreme Leader's adviser Ali Akbar Velayati has called for closer ties between Tehran and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, designated a terrorist organization by the US, EU, and UK.

A round of meetings began Thursday in Vienna as various accounts emerged on what has or has not been agreed over restoring the 2015 Iran nuclear deal.

Amid Iran’s intensified persecution of followers of the Baha'i faith, the United States has called on the Islamic Republic to stop its ongoing oppression of the religious minority.

US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan expressed concerns over the safety of Iranian women’s rights activist Masih Alinejad following the arrest of a man with an assault rifle outside her New York home.

World markets need Iran’s oil and gas supplies this winter, oil minister Javad Owji said Thursday, as diplomats gathered in Vienna for talks on Tehran’s nuclear program.

The international community must hold the authorities to account for the torrent of violence against protesters in Iran in May 2022, Amnesty International says.

An Iranian specialist of nuclear detonators, who was previously working at a secret nuclear weapons development test site in Iran, is said to be still working for the defense ministry on nuclear weapons.

Eight US Republican Senators have written to President Joe Biden asking him to deny a visa to Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi who plans to travel to the UN in New York in September.

A US-based think tank says al-Qaeda terrorist group’s second in command, who is set to become its new leader following the death of Ayman al-Zawahiri, is in Iran.

United States and Iranian officials played down prospects as they headed to Vienna for the resumption of nuclear talks on Thursday.

Iran exported 366,000 tons of gasoline from March 21-July 20, and earned $133 million, spokesman of the country’s customs organization told local media on Wednesday.

An Iranian war veteran injured during the eight-year conflict with Iraq has died after setting himself on fire due to financial harship in the Kurdish-majority city of Sonqor in Western Iran.

Iran has sentenced three people, including a woman, to be blinded in one eye in ‘eye-for-an-eye’ punishment under the Islamic Republic’s retribution laws.

An Iranian international affairs analyst says the West does not pay attention to bragging by Iranian officials about their capablity to build a nuclear bomb.

The senior European official chairing Iran nuclear talks in Vienna tweeted Wednesday he was heading to the Austrian capital to resume discussions.

Following Iran’s repeated failures to get a satellite into orbit, Russia's Roscosmos says it will launch one on behalf of the Islamic Republic into space.