Iran

Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said on Thursday that Tehran remained open to resuming talks with Washington but US preconditions rendered negotiations impossible for now.

Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei on Thursday denied reports that Tehran had sought to enlist Riyadh as an intermediary in talks with Washington, saying outreach to President Donald Trump was beneath Iran's dignity.

Iran on Thursday condemned Australia's listing of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a state sponsor of terrorism, calling it a politically motivated and unjustified move.

Syrian and Iranian drug manufacturers have shifted their activities to Yemen after the overthrow of the Assad dynasty last year, according to a global anti-drug body and a Yemeni official cited by AFP on Thursday.

At an official ceremony in Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei's compound on Thursday, a religious official chanted to congregants that US President Donald Trump's death was nigh and that Iran would vanquish Israel.

A rocket strike on Iraq’s Khor Mor gas field late on Wednesday forced its closure and caused widespread power outages across the Kurdistan region, in an attack local officials cited by Reuters blamed on Iran-backed militias.

Senior Guards commanders cast the Revolutionary Guard's paramilitary Basij force as central to Iran’s response in June’s 12-day war with Israel and pressed for an expanded role for the force at home and in any future confrontation.

Israeli defense company Elbit Systems said its Hermes 900 drones helped locate dozens of concealed Iranian ballistic missile launchers during the June war between Israel and Iran, The Jerusalem Post reported.

Iran’s UN ambassador demanded full compensation from Washington on Wednesday in a letter to the UN leadership, arguing the United States bears responsibility for damage Iran says resulted from joint US-Israeli strikes during June’s 12-day conflict.

Iran Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi warned on Wednesday that approaching nuclear sites hit in recent strikes is unsafe and said inspections there can only resume under new security arrangements.

Lebanon’s political leaders reacted on Wednesday against Tehran’s perceived meddling in the country’s internal debates over Hezbollah’s disarmament, following comments from a top Iranian official.

Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi on Wednesday said no direct nuclear negotiations are taking place with the United States, but channels remain open if Washington decided to change stance.

Sonic booms heard over Tehran on Tuesday were from Iranian MiG-29 on a routine training flight, the Air Force said, denying any Israeli incursion into the country's air space.

Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf is trying to turn Iran’s mounting economic turmoil into political capital, casting himself as a problem-solver while President Massoud Pezeshkian takes political blows for perceived inaction.

Iranian foreign minister Abbas Araghchi on Wednesday accused the United States of bullying and aggression in its treatment of Tehran's Latin America ally Venezuela, as US military forces have gathered in the region.

At eleven o’clock each night, Tehran time, my studio, half a world away, seems to inherit the city’s fatigue. The callers gather like silhouettes behind a scrim of static.

Iran's foreign minister on Wednesday pressed Germany to release any findings into German companies suspected of supplying materials for chemical weapons deployed by Saddam Hussein during the 1980s Iran-Iraq war.

A 70-year-old American-Iranian mother has been detained in Iran for two months, the State Department confirmed to Iran International, with her political dissident son saying the move aimed to silence him.