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Social media reports by journalists and citizens in Iran say a series of loud explosions were heard tonight in Western Iran, around the cities of Hamedan and Kermanshah.

The health ministry reported Iran's first three deaths from the highly contagious Omicron coronavirus variant on Saturday as the number of infections increased.

Iranian parliament's investigation of former President Hassan Rouhani may be a factionally motivated move by hardliners to divert attention from his successor's failings.

Twitter has permanently suspended one of Iranian leader Ali Khamenei’s accounts apparently for sharing an animation video depicting the killing of Donald Trump.

Mohammad Javad Zarif was not invited to a policy meeting with President Ebrahim Raisi because he criticized Russia last year, a Tehran newspaper said Saturday.

France says it is “vital” that Vienna talks to revive the 2015 nuclear agreement “succeed” because if negotiations continue with the current speed there will be nothing left to negotiate.

Mohsen Hashemi, former Iranian President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani’s son, has called his father's death in 2017 "suspicious".

An Iranian lawmaker says Tehran and Riyadh are getting ready to reopen their embassies, closed since Saudi diplomatic missions were attacked by mobs in 2016.

The United States has arrested an Iranian dual citizen for conspiring to illegally export electronic goods and technology to the Islamic Republic.

A US-based group has called on the government and donors to suspend financial support for Princeton University due to its inaction against a controversial Iranian scholar it employs.

Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi have announced the launch of a 25-year cooperation deal signed in March.

For the second time in less than a month the Iranian parliament’s presidium has stopped a motion to impeach one of President Ebrahim Raisi’s economic ministers.

Iran’s hardliner Kayhan daily wrote Saturday that an animation video depicting the killing of former US President Donald Trump has caused “terror and fear” in the “terrorist American government.”

China seeks to expand its influence in the Middle East by opening the first consulate in a strategic Iranian trade and military port.

Chief negotiators of Iran and the three European participants in the Vienna nuclear talks have returned to their capitals to hold consultations and update their respective governments.

Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo slammed the Biden Administration for continuing talks with Iran while Tehran is threatening former US officials and attacking US targets.

Iran’s Foreign minister who is visiting China to follow up on a 25-year agreement with Beijing says bilateral cooperation is accelerating under the current administration.

Denmark says espionage threat from Iran, China and Russia is increasing against the country as well as the Arctic region where world powers are competing for resources and sea routes.

Iran's central bank says that over $6 billion was taken out of the country in six months (March 21-Sept. 20), because of political and economic uncertainty.

A new report has revealed that many Iranians go to Iraq to sell their kidneys because they can get more money for their organ and in US dollars.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken says Iran is advancing its nuclear program in increasingly dangerous ways, and its malign activities in the region have also increased.