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Iran's hardliner President Ebrahim Raisi has vowed revenge for the killing of Qasem Soleimani in 2020 unless former US President Donald Trump is put on trial.

Iran spent $9 billion in foreign currency to import mobile phones in 33 months, with a large portion going for “luxury” devices with a price tag of over $600.

Iran's foreign ministry spokesman said Monday that Western nuclear negotiators in the Vienna talks have backed off from their "maximalist demands".

Iran-affiliated hackers targeted Israeli media outlests early Monday, on the second anniversary of Qasem Soleiman's killing by a US done attack in Baghdad.

A business representative in Tehran has criticized the government's sanctions-busting oil barter deals with buyers like China saying Iran gets little in return.

The United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) said late on Sunday it had received reports of an attack on a vessel near Yemen's port of Ras Isa and an investigation was being conducted.

Jailed Iranian writer Baktash Abtin has been put in a medically induced coma as his health condition is deteriorating due to complications caused by Covid-19 that he contracted in prison.

Strong reactions to comments by a cleric in Iran has highlighted the vast gap between the official ideology and the people's notion of a desirable lifestyle.

An official of Iran’s drug importers union says official claims of self-sufficiency in production of raw materials for medicine and pharmaceutical products is not true.

Iran’s Revolutionary Guard and Lebanon’s Hezbollah have reportedly started construction work to expand two old military bases near the Syrian capital Damascus.

The son-in-law of Iran’s former president has said that a recent meeting between Hassan Rouhani and Iran’s leader Ali Khamenei was “normal and intimate”, rejecting rumors to the contrary.

A state-affilliated website in Iran has admitted that Russia and China have "convinced Iran to drop some of its maximalist demands" in the Vienna nuclear talks.

A conservative news website in Tehran has published readers' comments about the nuclear talks and Iran's economic crisis, that despite censorship are revealing.

An young Iranian political prisoner, Adel Kianpour, who was on hunger strike to demand a fair trial for about a week has died in detention in southern Iran.

In a sharply critical article in the Spectator, Jake Wallis Simons has called the Iran nuclear talks one of “the West’s great foreign policy failures of 2021”.

During his recent visit to Iran's religious center Qom, top Shiite clerics told President Ebrahim Raisi to end policies that have isolated Iran in the world.

An ex-Iranian ambassador has said a new Chinese consulate in Bandar Abbas port city will foster Beijing’s economic presence on Iran’s Gulf of Oman coastline.

Three local members of the paramilitary Basij who were fighting armed groups alongside Revolutionary Guards in southeastern Iran have been killed, the IRGC said.

A senior Iranian politician has revealed Qasem Soleimani’s influence in Iran’s foreign policy, including the selection of ambassadors to several countries.

Chanting anti-American slogans hundreds of people rallied in the Iraqi capital Baghdad on Saturday to mark the anniversary of the killing of an Iranian general.

A large fire sparked from an underwater pipeline has interrupted production at one of the platforms in Iran’s South Pars gas field in the Persian Gulf.