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Three activists jailed since August 14 in Iran have said that they have refused to sign a pledge not to sue the country’s Supreme Leader in order to be freed.

The coming weeks are decisive for the future of the nuclear deal with Iran, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Sunday.

Lebanon's two main power plants were forced to shut down after running out of fuel plunging the country into darkness on Saturday, despite Iran sending fuel.

The head of Iran’s atomic energy agency has said that stockpiles of 20-percent enriched uranium have reached 120kg, a third more than previous estimates.

A report by Iran’s Central Bank (CBI) issued in August and made available in October shows an extraordinary growth in liquidity, which fuels high inflation.

A main concern of Iran in talks to rescue the 2015 nuclear deal would be around ways to verify the lifting of US sanctions, Iran's Foreign Minister has said.

While the Iranian foreign minister has reiterated that his country will soon return to Vienna nuclear talks, it is not clear if Tehran has new preconditions.

A conservative newspaper in Iran has suggested the Taliban is misusing Tehran’s aid, highlighting varying views in Iran on Afghanistan’s new rulers.

Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi has accused the United States of being behind a suicide attack in Afghanistan on Friday that killed 46 people in a mosque.

Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, foreign minister of the Islamic Republic of Iran visited Syria on Saturday and met with president Bashar al-Assad in Damascus.

The Islamic Republic of Iran's first President, Abolhassan Banisadr who was ousted by clerics passed away at age 88 in a Paris hospital after 40 years in exile.

The US Department of the Treasury removed a large Iranian industrial group from its list of sanctions on Friday, as nuclear talks with Iran remain suspended.

The first president of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Abolhassan Banisadr who was elected after the monarchy has died in exile, where he lived since 1981.

Ten people were injured in two explosives-laden drone attacks at King Abdullah airport in the southern Saudi city of Jizan late on Friday and early on Saturday.

After visiting the Bushehr nuclear power plant Friday, President Ebrahim Raisi said that atomic energy would play an increasing role in generating electricity.

A human rights group and activists say that several political prisoners were attacked and injured in their ward by violent inmates in a Tehran prison on Friday.

Recent statements from Iran and Saudi Arabia have provided hope that a pathway might be emerging to an end to the bitter seven-year civil war in Yemen.

Iran wants to continue sending fuel to Lebanon and hopes for an agreement with Beirut, foreign minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian said in Beirut on Friday.

German finance regulator BaFin said Friday it had banned a Hamburg-based branch of Bank Melli Iran from issuing loans citing infringement of transparency rules.

Reports of a halt in Iranian trucks entering Turkey were "completely fake and mischievous," Iran's Consul-General in Erzurum, eastern Turkey, said Thursday.

A group of plaintiffs have made a formal request for the arrest of Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi if he travels to Scotland to attend a climate conference.