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More than 50 percent of Iran’s passenger planes are idle due to lack of spare parts, particularly engines, a trade representative told local media on Monday.

Media in Iran have criticized President Ebrahim Raisi for evading significant questions during his recent televised, including on the issue of nuclear talks.

Authorities in Iran’s capital Tehran and suburbs will close educational institutions two days a week as air pollution has reached a dangerous level in winter.

AP - Syria's military said Israeli warplanes fired missiles on the port of the coastal city of Latakia early on Tuesday without inflicting any human losses.

President Joe Biden will raise the issue of Iran’s nuclear program in his call with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday, the White House told reporters on Monday.

Iran’s conservatives supporters Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, are divided like an archipelago with many small islands linked by loose bridges, a pundit has said.

As Iran’s currency fell to its lowest exchange rate in 12 months, the head of Iran's Central Bank said foreign currency reserves had shot up over the past year.

An Iranian naval vessel which was under construction at Bandar Abbas in southern Iran has capsized in dry dock, killing one Navy personnel.

Yemen's Iran-backed Houthis held military funerals on Monday for 25 fighters killed in battles with the Saudi-led coalition in the Marib region.

Germany said Monday that it did not regard Iranian proposals to revive Tehran’s 2015 nuclear deal with world powers as “a basis for a successful end to talks.”

Iran’s defense ministry is creating an “economic headquarters” to coordinate and marshal its capabilities for more effective business and commercial operations.

Iran’s foreign minister said Monday that relations between “a few Arab states and the Zionist regime” is not in the interest of stability and peace in the region.

Iran reiterated Monday that it would negotiate in Vienna only on the basis of its drafts sent to world powers, demanding first the removal of all sanctions.

UAE's top national security adviser Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan met in Tehran with President Ebrahim Raisi and national security chief Ali Shamkhani.

Saudi Arabia's de facto ruler Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman starts a tour of Gulf Arab states on Monday ahead of an annual Gulf summit, amid nuclear talks with Iran.

In a televised talk Sunday, Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi only briefly addressed Iran's nuclear issue saying he is keenly pursuing the "lifting of sanctions".

Four months after President Ebrahim Raisi took office, most of his critics come from the like-minded conservative camp rather than from his political rivals.

Iran's economy has had almost no growth since its nuclear program gained momentum in 2004, to a large extent by the damage economic sanctions have inflicted.

The Secretary General of the Arab League has said Iran wants to control the Straits of Hormuz and the Bab al-Mandab either directly or through proxies it funds.

Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett on Sunday urged world powers to take a hard line against Iran in nuclear talks held in Vienna earlier in the week.

A protester accused of shooting a Special Riot Force commander in Mahshahr, southern Iran in the nation-wide November 2019 protests has been sentenced to death.