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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.

Russia’s role in the Vienna nuclear talks splits Iranians. Some accuse Moscow of pressuring Tehran, while others see Russia negotiating on Iran’s behalf.

Floods caused by torrential rains have swept through drought-stricken Iran disrupting electricty and clean water in the worst-hit areas of the south and east.

Iran’s leader has lashed out at former US president Donald Trump and others for the killing of Qasem Soleimani, saying they “will pay back for their crime.”

Iran’s Tehran province is literally sinking with large sinkholes and fissures appearing in the densely populated region as underground water reserves decline.

Foreign Minister Yair Lapid has claimed Israel has superior military capabilities, amid talks between world powers and Iran on restoring the 2015 nuclear deal.

Iran's space rocket launch on Thursday failed to put its research payloads into orbit after the vehicle was unable to reach the required speed, spokesman said.

France on Friday condemned Iran's satellite rocket launch and said it was "all the more regrettable" as nuclear talks with world powers were making progress.

A former advisor to Iran’s Qasem Soleimani has said that a Russian officer in Syria once gave the Qods chief 100 Krasnopol guided artillery shells as a gift.

Iran's economy minister has said Thursday that the government has no immediate solution for the hardship families face, urging people to be patient.