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Iranian academic Mohammad Fazeli and reformist political commentator Abbas Abdi have explored the best and worst-case scenarios for Iran as it entered a new year on March 21.

Iran's government and football federation officials are blaming each other for an incident in Mashhad during which women who wanted to watch a soccer game were pepper sprayed.

Republican Senator John Cornyn tells Iran International that he thinks the Vienna negotiations to revive the 2015 nuclear deal is “fundamentally flawed”.

As many as 131,365 girls under the age of 15 have been married in Iran over the last five years, according to official data quoted by local media.

Political analysts in Iran say President Ebrahim Raisi has not carried out any economic reforms and has simply surrendered to vested interests of regime insiders.

Kuwait says the disputed Arash/Durra gas field in the Persian Gulf is “exclusively owned” by the Persian Gulf nation and its neighbor Saudi Arabia.

The United States Wednesday imposed sanctions on an Iran-based man and his firms it accused of helping Tehran obtain materials for its ballistic missile program.

An Iranian website has denied a claim that Iran's March 13 missile attack on Erbil was meant to derail a plan to pump Kurdish gas to Turkey and Europe.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Wednesday Moscow would work with Iran to take steps to circumvent Western sanctions, the RIA news agency reported.

As the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen has announced a ceasefire, Iran-backed Houthis have called the measure “meaningless” if the siege against the rebels is in full effect.

The United States, China and Russia will discuss Afghanistan on the sidelines of a two-day meeting of neighboring countries in the Chinese province of Anhui.

Iran-backed Lebanese Hezbollah has praised the attacker who killed five Israelis in a suburb of Tel Aviv in the third deadly attack of its kind in a week.

Unnamed Israeli military officials have told local media that an air defense pact with friendly regional countries is in the works to confront Iranian threats.

Amnesty International has rebuked Iran for routinely repressing citizens and "systemic impunity" of officials for "past and ongoing crimes against humanity".

With the United States and Israel in ten-day naval maneuvers, Senator Lindsey Graham has said an Israeli attack on Iran is “probably the way this movie ends.”

Iranian women were once again denied entry into a soccer stadium despite FIFA’s pressure on Islamic Republic to allow them for international and official games.

Kuwait’s foreign minister Sheikh Ahmad Nasser al-Mohammad al-Sabah said Tuesday the Arash/Durra gas field was a tripartite issue between Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and Iran.

A veteran diplomat who was a former US envoy to Israel has quitted Biden's team at the nuclear talks to restore the 2015 deal with Iran.

Another member of President Joe Biden’s Iran negotiating team has resigned amid growing criticism at home and abroad of an impending nuclear deal with Tehran.

British-American-Iranian wildlife conservationist Morad Tahbaz has ended his nine-day hunger strike he started after his abrupt return to prison despite pledges of furlough.

The European Union's top diplomat Josep Borrel says talks to revive the 2015 Iran nuclear deal are stuck by Tehran after a hurdle thrown by Russia was overcome.