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Qatar’s Emir will discuss global energy security and efforts to revive the 2015 Iran nuclear deal with President Joe Biden during his visit to Washington.

The TEDPIX index in the Tehran bourse dropped 26,000 points Tuesday to 1.208 million points, and investors blamed President Ebrahim Raisi for their losses.

Iran and Azerbaijan are set to construct a bridge on Astarachay River running along the joint border as part of their plans to increase road transit between the two countries.

There are more than 30,000 idle production plants across Iran that are completely closed or semi-active due to economic and legal issues.

The possibility of holding direct talks with the United States, and also the idea of an interim nuclear agreement have led to optimism among observers in Tehran.

An Iranian court Tuesday convicted French national Benjamin Briere of espionage, sentencing him to eight years in prison, French news network BFM TV reported.

A group of former Iranian prisoners detained because they had converted to Christianity has issued a statement demanding the right to education for Persian-speaking Christians.

Reporters Without Borders has expressed concern for the lives of three jailed political activists in Iran who have been transferred to detention centers known to mistreat prisoners.

Talks to revive the 2015 nuclear deal between Western powers and Iran are approaching a dangerous impasse, British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss said on Tuesday.

Iran has reiterated it will not consider in the Vienna talks any interim arrangement towards reviving the 2015 nuclear accord.

Iranian officials and media affiliated with the IRGC are saying that Tehran is prepared to hold direct talks with the US if "a good agreement" is within reach.

The United States says direct dialogue between Tehran and Washington would be much more productive on both nuclear negotiations and on other issues.

Iranian universities have fired four professors of social sciences in less than a week, in what critics see as further political cleansing of academia.

Iran’s foreign minister said Monday Tehran would consider direct talks with the United States if needed to revive the 2015 nuclear deal with world powers.

Some manufacturing companies in Turkey have halted production temporarily after Iran cut gas flows last week for up to 10 days due to a “technical problem.”

Lebanese Sunni Muslim leader Saad al-Hariri said on Monday he was stepping back from politics partly blaming Iran’s intrusive role in Lebanon.

An Iranian conservative journalist has called for Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian to step down over President Ebrahim Raisi’s treatment during his recent Russia visit.

Iran intends to set the minimum monthly salary for the next Iranian year (starting March 21) at 56 million rials, which is about $200 at today’s exchange rate.

Small investors are exiting Tehran’s stock exchange after 18 months of losses, with the hope of making alternative investments and recoup some of their capital.

Iran is installing sensors and cameras on roadside electrical equipment to help catch anyone stealing power cables and lamps.

The top military adviser to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei says a new era of relations with neighboring countries has begun in Tehran's foreign policy.