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A band of radical students, and followers of Ayatollah Khomeini, stormed the US Embassy in Tehran on November 4, 1979 and took Americans hostage for 444 days.

Births have declined more than expected in Iran this year, local media reported quoting figures from a government statistical organization.

Saudi Arabia’s interest in improving relations with Iran is diminishing, according to a member of the Iranian parliament’s National Security and Foreign Policy Committee.

The US State Department spokesman on Thursday said that according to provisions of the 2015 nuclear deal (JCPOA) Iran can never acquire a nuclear weapon.

President Ebrahim Raisi’s top economic official says Iran has been “smuggling oil and bringing the dollars back secretly” because of “illegal” US sanctions.

The Biden Administration approved its first major arms sale to Saudi Arabia for 280 air-to-air missiles valued at $650 million, the Pentagon said on Thursday.

A Cypriot judge on November 1 extended the detention of a 38-year-old Azeri, arrested in Nicosia September 27, allegedly involved in a terror plot against Israeli businessmen.

An official in charges of setting wages in Iran says that the monthly living basket for a family has risen to more than double the income of an average worker.

Iran has accumulated 25kg of uranium enriched to 60 percent and 210kg enriched to 20 percent, the spokesman of its nuclear agency told a Tehran rally Thursday.

Lebanon's prime minister Najib Mikati Thursday repeated his call for information minister Georges Kordahi to step down over a diplomatic rift with Saudi Arabia.

Two days after Iran International TV revealed in an investigative television report that the new chief of Iran's state television had fired two top managers, media in Tehran confirmed the news on Wednesday.

The United States has not “learned a lesson” from the seizure of its embassy in Tehran in 1979, the commander of Iran’s IRGC said on the event's anniversary.

President Ebrahim Raisi referring to upcoming nuclear talks has said “Iran will not leave the negotiating table” but will also not accept excessive demands.

Vietnam has been in talks with Iran over the seizure of a Vietnamese oil tanker off the Iranian coast, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on Thursday.

Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei’s office in London received more than £100,000 in coronavirus aid from the British government, The Times reported on Wednesday.

Russia’s Tehran embassy denied Wednesday there was any agreement between Iran and Russia to block Iranian gas extraction in the Caspian Sea as long as Iran’s demand for gas remains lower than its output.

Iran's talks with world powers will resume on November 29, its top nuclear negotiator, Ali Bagheri Kani, said as concerns over Tehran's nuclear advances grow.

The IMF in a recent report showed that Iran’s foreign currency reserves increased from a low of $12.4 billion in 2020 to a projected $31.4 billion for 2021.

An influential conservative lawmaker in Iran criticized Tuesday what he alleged was excessive influence of the son-in-law of President Ebrahim Raisi (Raeesi).

Iran’s national security chief has tweeted that “the powerless US president” is unable to give guarantees and without it the fate of the nuclear talks is clear.

Iran claimed Wednesday that “recently” the United States tried to seize Iranian oil in the Sea of Oman, but the IRGC Navy intervened and repossessed the oil.