Iran and Egypt have lodged formal protests with FIFA after Seattle designated their 2026 World Cup group-stage game as a “Pride Match,” triggering a diplomatic and cultural backlash from two countries where homosexuality is criminalized.
Iran, China and Saudi Arabia held a trilateral meeting in Tehran on Tuesday, the third since their 2023 normalization agreement brokered in Beijing, state media reported.
Iran’s foreign ministry on Sunday confirmed that 55 Iranian nationals have been detained and are being deported from the United States, marking the second group expelled in recent months under President Donald Trump’s tightened immigration policies.
Simultaneous visits by senior Turkish and Saudi officials to Tehran last weekend were widely seen as a move by the two US allies to explore new channels to manage rising regional tensions through dialogue with Iran.
Interrogations of rebels detained in Chad uncovered an Iran-backed network recruiting and training Africans to target Western and Israeli interests, Argentina's Infobae online newspaper reported citing Chadian officials.
Gulf Cooperation Council Secretary-General Jasem Mohamed Albudaiwi urged Iran to take to build trust with its neighbors and stop policies that undermine stability in the Middle East.
The editor-in-chief of Iran’s hardline daily Kayhan, overseen by Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, said Bahrain’s “main demand” is reunification with Iran, stepping up Tehran’s response to a recent GCC statement on the three disputed Persian Gulf islands.
Senior Iranian official Ali Shamkhani cautioned Persian Gulf neighbors after the GCC renewed claims over three Iranian islands and backed Saudi and Kuwaiti ownership of the Arash/Durra gas field, framing the dispute as a test of regional red lines amid post-war tensions.
An Iranian court said it has ordered the United States government to pay more than $22 billion in damages for what it described as support for protesters during the 2022 Woman, Life, Freedom movement, state media reported on Tuesday.
South Korea’s foreign ministry said on Monday that South Korean nationals have been arrested in Iran on suspicion of smuggling, adding its embassy is in contact with Iranian authorities and providing consular assistance.
Iran and Turkey have agreed to start building a new joint rail line that will serve as a strategic trade corridor between Asia and Europe, Iranian foreign minister Abbas Araghchi said Sunday.
Turkey’s Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said Ankara would do “whatever we can” to help resolve Iran’s nuclear issue through dialogue and international law, Iranian state media reported on Sunday, following talks in Tehran with his Iranian counterpart Abbas Araghchi.
Iran's foreign ministry on Saturday denounced US President Donald Trump’s announcement of a closure of Venezuela’s airspace, calling it a serious breach of international law and a threat to global aviation safety.
The UN nuclear watchdog’s latest rebuke shows that Iran’s turn to nuclear ambiguity is deepening concerns and may accelerate an escalation that all sides insist they want to avoid.
President Masoud Pezeshkian held a meeting with Iranian-born Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi during his trip to New York in September for the UN General Assembly, reform-leaning Tehran-based magazine Agahi-e No reported on Tuesday.
Iran’s judiciary said on Tuesday that prosecutors have filed charges against a former member of parliament and media figure who alleged that President Masoud Pezeshkian sent a message to US President Donald Trump through Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
US President Donald Trump has asked Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to manage a channel aimed at opening dialogue between Washington and Tehran as the kingdom seeks to avert further regional escalation, the Lebanese newspaper al-Akhbar reported on Tuesday.
Iran’s foreign ministry rejected reports about President Masoud Pezeshkian’s letter to Saudi crown prince, saying it was a routine bilateral message focused solely on Hajj coordination and contained nothing related to negotiations with the United States.
President Masoud Pezeshkian sent a letter via Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to President Donald Trump with the permission of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei offering to revive nuclear talks, a former Iranian lawmaker said after Tehran denied seeking Riyadh’s mediation.
Iran’s nuclear strategy has entered an ambiguous new phase, said veteran non-proliferation expert Mark Fitzpatrick, and Israel’s attacks in June could have left intact Tehran's ability to pivot toward a bomb if it so chose.
Tehran’s messaging this week suggests it may be open to a limited agreement with Washington, but its preconditions leave little room for a deal that US President Donald Trump deemed 'probable' this week.
Tehran’s fraught relationship with the UN nuclear watchdog is set to enter a more confrontational phase as the IAEA Board of Governors meets in Vienna this week to vote on a Western-backed resolution censuring Iran for non-cooperation.