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Israel is increasingly concerned that the US is aiming for a partial nuclear deal with Iran only to stop its uranium enrichment, Israel Hayom reported Sunday.

On his 100th day in office President Ebrahim Raisi has come under fire by both friends and foes for failing to make a dent in Iran’s economic and other crises.

A court in Iran has sentenced a retired female teacher who had signed a letter demanding Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei’s resignation to a five-year prison term.

The head of Iran’s Planning and Budget Organization has told parliament that the government needs $18 billion to import essential foods in the next few months.

Two strong earthquakes struck southern Iran on the Persian Gulf Sunday, prompting residents to flee their homes and killing at least one person, media reported.

Iran's parliament on Sunday delayed a bill that would eliminate a huge government subsidy for essential goods which weighs heavily on Iran’s depleted reserves.

The chairmen of Iraq and Korea joint chambers of commerce say news about $3.5 billion of Iran’s frozen funds being freed is not related to the two countries.

In a recent meeting with economists, President Ebrahim Raisi asked basic questions about the sorrow state of Iran's economy, showing a lack of prior planning.

An expert witness testified at the Iran Atrocities Tribunal in London Saturday that a crime against humanity was committed during protests in November 2019.

Richard Ratcliffe, the husband of a British-Iranian woman held in Iran, ended his 21-day hunger strike outside the UK Foreign Office and was admitted to hospital.

After a winter weather front passed from central Iran on Friday, the Iranian meteorological agency announced a “yellow” pollution alert for five major cities.

Norwegian police have charged a former Iranian diplomat for his alleged role in the 1993 assassination attempt on the publisher of Salman Rushdie’s Satanic Verses.

After a claim Friday that $3.5 billion of Iran's frozen funds had been freed, an IRGC newspaper bumped the figure to $4 billion, as a sign of Tehran's victory.

Exploratory talks with Iran have been cordial but not substantive, Saudi Arabia’s foreign minister has told France-24 in an interview published on Saturday.

The Iran Atrocities Tribunal in London, quoting unnamed “European sources”, says Iran’s nuclear negotiator demanded that Britain stop the work of the Tribunal.

US President Joe Biden said in a memo to his officials on Friday that there were sufficient supplies of oil so other countries can reduce purchases from Iran.

Hundreds of residents of Esfahan joined farmers protesting against water shortage and the drying up of the river, Zayandeh Roud, that flows through the city.

In the third day of the Iran Atrocities Tribunal in London the brother of a victim who was killed by security forces in the November 2019 protests testified.

Scores of Iranian Kurds have been arrested in two regions in the Iranian Kurdistan province, two human rights monitoring groups reported on Friday.

A former parliamentary leader in Iran says that refusing to directly negotiate with the United States is an “obvious mistake” and against national interests.

Ahead of new talks with world powers in Vienna, Iran’s top nuclear negotiator has reiterated that lifting of US sanctions will be the focus of the negotiations.