A senior member of Iran’s parliament has confirmed ongoing discussions about President Hassan Rouhani assuming the role of an acting executive on behalf of the Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei.
The spokesperson of the Islamic Republic Foreign Ministry, Abbas Mousavi, strongly denied that Iran had requested the establishment of a U.S. consular section in the Swiss Embassy in Tehran.
Based on a parliamentary motion endorsed by the Islamic Republic legislators, the Iranian government will be obliged to add new anti-US chapters in school and university textbooks.
Our ruling establishment is based on Shari'a, and in no way, we will ever give away our religious principles, the head of the Islamic Republic Judiciary has reacted to criticisms of Iran’s human rights violations.
An Iranian aviation industry representative says flights to Baghdad and the Iraqi city of Najaf have stopped.
Iran is launching a new array of 30 advanced IR-6 centrifuges on Monday, the country's nuclear chief Ali Akbar Salehi told state television, scaling back Tehran's commitments under a nuclear agreement with major powers.
A Revolutionary Court judge in Iran says three suspects in a legal case involving financial corruption at Bank Mellat (Nation Bank) have fled Iran and currently live in London and somewhere in Switzerland.
Dozens of Iraqi protesters attacked the Iranian consulate in the Shiite holy city of Karbala on Sunday, scaling the concrete barriers ringing the building, bringing down an Iranian flag and replacing it with the Iraqi flag, eyewitnesses said.
The Islamic Republic's reputation is in no way smeared with money laundering, Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said on November 3, while admitting that money laundering in the country amounts to billions of dollars.
A prominent critic of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei in Iran has said that the notion of supreme religious rule is “the foundation of oppression” imposed on the people of Iran since 1979.
The secretary of a religious watchdog office in Iran has admitted that since the establishment of the Islamic Republic four decades ago (1979), the authorities have executed 15,000 people for drug-related crimes.
More than 200 Iranian film industry activists have protested tight censorship and the government's inability to stand by its licensing rules and protect their work.
The Islamic Republic of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has once again rejected the idea of negotiations with Washington and ruled out mediation between Iran and the United States by French President Emmanuel Macron.
For drought-stricken Iran, a second year of heavy rains have brought much needed water but also floods, killing two people.
Twitter has blocked the account of Al-Manar TV, belonging to Lebanon’s Hezbollah, saying it has not followed its rules.
Iranians tourism to Turkey has not declined and more are buying properties in Turkey despite economic problems at home. This can point to capital flight.
A court in Tehran has sentenced a colleague of the imprisoned Iranian billionaire to twenty years of jail and repaying $1.3 billion of what prosecutors say is government’s embezzled funds.
Hardliners in Iran try to win hearts and minds as parliamentary elections approach and as the danger of a spill-over of protests in Iraq and Lebanon is felt in Tehran.
Iran signed a preliminary agreement with Syria on Saturday to help rebuild the Arab ally's electricity grid, Iranian state media reported, as Tehran seeks to strengthen its role in Syria and the region.
Flights by Iran’s Mahan airlines to Italy will come to an end soon, according to a decision by the Italian government, La Stampa reported on November 1.
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