Archive

China is now the single largest investor and trading partner to 11 Middle Eastern countries, thanks primarily to its Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), a global, multi-trillion-dollar project.

Several Nobel Laureates and distinguished academics in a letter have urged the United Nations to intervene for the release of two top university students imprisoned in Iran.

Advocacy group United Against Nuclear Iran (UANI) has released a satellite photo of two oil tankers during ship-to-ship transfer of Iranian crude reiterating calls for sanctioning them.

Iran’s Revolutionary Guards have made new bribery accusations against the brother of former president Hassan Rouhani who is already serving a prison term.

A dual national jailed in Iran has started a hunger strike in solidarity with Barry Rosen, a former hostage, who has launched a campaign at Vienna talks to draw attention to those held by Tehran.

In a five-minute trial a court in Iran has sentenced prominent political prisoner Narges Mohammadi to eight years in jail and 70 lashes, her husband announced.

The US 5th Fleet interdicted a stateless fishing vessel in the Gulf of Oman carrying 40 tons of urea fertilizer that can also be used to make explosives.

South Korea has paid part of Iran’s delinquent dues to the United Nations from funds frozen at its banks because of American sanctions, Seoul announced Sunday.

Empress Kuzcooo, a female comedian, says Instagram deleted her page after she was reported for a post that poked fun at Iran’s president for praying at the Kremlin.

Iran’s annual inflation rate hovered above 40 percent in the last Iranian calendar month that ended on January 20, a statistical center reported on Saturday.

A US safety firm has cancelled environmental and safety classification of two tankers following accusations that they had shipped cargoes of Iranian oil.

Several clerics and politicians in Iran have criticized the aura of secrecy surrounding Tehran's long-term deals with Russia and China as colonial in nature.

Dismissal of two professors from two of Iran’s top universities has created controversy, evoking memories of purging independent-minded academics in the past.

The spokesman for Iran's police says salaries of police officers have increased several times in the current Iranian year, describing their living conditions as a major concern.

Richard Nephew, who is known as the architect of Washington’s sanctions on Iran, has left the US negotiating team in Vienna over differences with chief US negotiator Robert Malley.

Iran has rejected a Russia-proposed ‘interim’ deal that would have given limited sanctions relief in return for some nuclear curbs, US officials have told NBC News.

Smaller conservative parties in Iran have become more active recently, in what could be a design to shape politics more to the liking of the Supreme Leader.

The UN Security Council on Friday stromgly condemned "the heinous terrorist attacks” in the UAE on Monday and in other sites in Saudi Arabia by the Houthis.

Fars News Agency has claimed that Vladimir Putin was so overwhelmed in his recent meeting with the Iranian president that he became fidgety and had to tidy his tie to calm himself.

Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei's representative in Alborz province says President Ebrahim Raisi will offer Islamic prayers at the White House someday.

Iranian hardliner cleric Ahmad Alamolhoda says women with loose-fitting hijab should not feel secure in public, urging people to express hatred towards them.