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...
KIRKUK, Iraq: At least 100 fighters sneaked into Kirkuk in the early hours of Friday with machine guns, rocket propelled grenades, suicide vests and a...
ALQOSH, Iraq: Behnam Abboush won’t feel any safer if Iraqi forces drive Daesh (ISIS) out of their stronghold of Mosul. That’s why he and 300 other Assyrian...
BASHIQA, Iraq: Abu Mahmoud, part of a 2,500-man predominantly Sunni Arab force pulled together to launch an offensive against Daesh (ISIS) in the Iraqi city...
DUBAI/BEIRUT: Abandoning a long-standing reticence, Iranians are increasingly candid about their involvement in Syria’s war, and informal recruiters are now...
BEIRUT: A decision by a Kurdish opposition group to take up arms against Iranian authorities has senior officials in Tehran worrying that Saudi Arabia is...
BEIRUT: On a podium decorated as a bunker from the Iran-Iraq war, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad woos a crowd of hundreds with an anti-Western speech reminiscent of his...
BEIRUT: The case presented by the Iranian judiciary was simple: In the southern province of Fars, Fatemeh Salbehi suffocated her husband after drugging him, a...