DUBAI: A group of Iranian lawmakers asked Parliament Tuesday to debate a motion for Iran to quit a treaty governing global nuclear arms control, a move...
DUBAI: Iran’s president told European powers Wednesday not to copy the United States by undermining Tehran’s strained nuclear pact with world...
DUBAI: Iran said Monday it could quit the global nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty if European countries refer it to the U.N. Security Council over a nuclear...
DUBAI: Iran said Tuesday it had arrested people accused of a role in shooting down a Ukrainian airliner and had also detained 30 people involved in protests...
DUBAI/WASHINGTON/BAGHDAD: President Donald Trump has stepped back from new military action against Iran after its missile strikes on Iraqi bases housing U.S....
Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani, the top commander of the elite Al-Quds Force of the Revolutionary Guard, helped Iran fight proxy wars across the Middle East by...
GENEVA/WASHINGTON: The increased use of drones by Iran and its allies for surveillance and attacks across the Middle East is raising alarms in Washington. The...
GENEVA: If, despite its firm denials, Iran was behind attacks on two oil tankers in the Gulf last week and a further four last month, they represent a...
GENEVA: U.S. sanctions against Iran’s oil industry will damage the stability of global oil markets, a senior Iranian official was quoted as saying...
Qasem Soleimani’s role in a political crisis in Iran highlights the influence of the leader of the Revolutionary Guard Quds Force who has acquired celebrity...
GENEVA/LONDON: In early January, labor activist Esmail Bakhshi posted a letter on Instagram saying he had been tortured in jail, attracting support from tens...
HASSIA, Syria/GENEVA: At an Iranian government-owned car plant near Homs, the small number of vehicles on the assembly line underscores the obstacles hobbling...
BEIRUT: President Donald Trump is expected to pull the United States out of the Iran nuclear agreement on May 12. Tehran signed the Joint Comprehensive Plan...
BEIRUT: A number of protests have broken out in Iran since the beginning of the year over water, a growing political concern due to a drought that residents...
HALABJA, Iraq: Daesh (ISIS) may be on the wane in Iraq and Syria but for Iran, the threat is still strong, centered on Kurdish communities along the Iraq-Iran...
NAJAF, Iraq: In early September, Ayatollah Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi, a senior Iranian official and Islamic scholar, flew to the holy city of Najaf in...
BAGHDAD: In late May, an Iraqi Islamic scholar called Akram Kaabi visited militia fighters in a desolate Iraqi town near the Syrian border. Kaabi, who heads a...
BEIRUT: In the week before the May 19 presidential election in Iran, the eventual victor, Hassan Rouhani, criticized the judiciary and the powerful...
BEIRUT: The first picture shows a crowd of thousands packed into a square in the city of Isfahan this week for a speech by hard-line scholar Ebrahim Raisi,...
BEIRUT: Determined to protect a dominant security role and vast economic interests, Iran’s Revolutionary Guard military force is quietly backing a...
BEIRUT: Hengameh Shahidi knew the security agents were coming for her. An Iranian journalist and activist, she had been tipped off by contacts close to the...
DUBAI: Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said Monday the government’s economic policies had fallen short and called for a new “resistance...
BEIRUT: Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps looks set to entrench their power and shift the country to more hard-line, isolationist policies for years to come...
BEIRUT: Iran has played a pivotal role in Syrian President Bashar Assad’s campaign to crush rebel resistance in Aleppo. Now, it is close to establishing...
ZARQA/SHURA, Iraq: After Daesh (ISIS) conquered villages in northern Iraq, it spelled out in minute detail the rules of its self-proclaimed caliphate, from...