Tehran

A screenshot of a video showing fast-attack craft from Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy swarming Panama-flagged oil tanker Niovi as it transits the Strait of Hormuz, May 3, 2023. (Photo: U.S. Navy)

USA

U.S. Calls on Iran to Release Oil Tanker

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi speaks during an open session of parliament, April 30, 2023. (Photo: Vahid Salemi/ AP)

Kurdistan

Iran's Raisi to visit Damascus on Wednesday, in first since Syria war

Screenshot of the frontpage of the annual threat report of the U.S. Intelligence Community (Photo: Office of the Director of National Intelligence)

USA

U.S. intelligence report depicts Iran as significant threat

A protestor holds a gallows rope during a rally in Lyon, Jan. 8, 2023. (Photo: Jean-Philippe Ksiazek/AFP)

Iran

Iran sentences three more to death over Amini protests

US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan (Photo: AFP)

USA

US hails Iran’s removal from U.N. Commission on Women; blasts Iran for weapon sales to Russia; and ‘destabilizing actions throughout the Middle East’

Iraq's Prime Minister Mohammad Shia' Al-Sudani (right) during his meeting with Saudi Arabia's Ambassador to Baghdad Abdul Aziz Al-Shamari, Oct. 29, 2022. (Photo: Media Office of Iraqi Prime Minister)

Iraq

Iraq’s new PM, Saudi envoy discuss strengthening ties

Mahsa Zhina Amini died following her arrest and torture by the morality police in Tehran (Photo: social media).

Iran

US Iran Envoy calls for accountability for death of Mahsa Amini

Saudi Arabia's Foreign Minister Faisal bin Farhan (right) sitting next to Iraqi Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein Marrakesh, Kingdom of Morocco, May 11, 2022. (Photo: Iraqi Foreign Ministry)

Middle East

Iraq's FM discusses his Tehran visit with Saudi top diplomat

Iranian flag is waving alongside the United Arab Emirates (UAE) flag. (Photo: AFP)

Middle East

UAE envoy to Iran resumes duties after six years: Official

A woman walks past a shoe-seller's shop in the south of the capital city of Tehran, February 20, 2022. (Photo: AFP)

Iran

Iranian teachers protest in more than 100 cities: media

Benjamin Briere, 36, who was arrested in May 2020 while travelling in Iran and is currently on hunger strike. (Photo: Saeid Dehghan's Twitter / AFP)

Iran

Iran jails French man for 8 years on spying charges

An Iranian court has sentenced leading human rights campaigner Narges Mohammadi to eight years in prison and over 70 lashes. (Photo: Behrouz Mehri / AFP)

Iran

Iran rights defender sentenced to 8 years jail, flogging: husband

Iran's supreme leader Ali Khamenei. (Photo: AP)

Iran

Iran arrests Khamenei niece after praise for shah widow: actvists

Franco-Iranian academic Fariba Adelkhah in a 2012 photo. Adelkhah was jailed anew for "violating" house arrest limits, an official from the Islamic republic's judiciary authority said on Jan. 16, 2022. (Photo: Thomas ARRIVE / Sciences Po /

Iran

Iran jails anew French academic for 'violating' house arrest: judiciary

An Iranian policeman prepares to execute a death sentence in Tehran, Iran, Aug. 2, 2007. (Photo: Archive)

Iran

UN experts urge Iran to halt execution of young offender

National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan. (Photo: Jim Watson/AFP)

World

White House warns Iran; finally says Iran proxies behind attacks on US troops