The Foreign Ministry of Afghanistan says "a comprehensive investigation" is underway about Afghans being mistreated and allegedly pushed into a river by Iranian border guards.
President Hassan Rouhani’s spokesman says Tehran will show a "hard reaction" to the extension of the arms embargo against Iran due to end in October.
An outspoken conservative legislator in Iran has lambasted the Islamic Republic government for wasting the national treasury by offering U.S. dollars to some companies at a preferential low rate in 2018.
Referring to the Islamic Republic's record of "abducting and killing Iranian refugees", Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has raised concern over the fate of twelve Iranian journalists and citizen-reporters currently living in Turkey.
An Iranian news agency on May 2 denied claims that Brigadier General Amir-Ali Hajizadeh, Commander of the Guards' Aerospace Force, was killed in an Israeli strike in Syria on Friday.
Criminal charges have been filed Friday against two Iranian nationals for circumventing U.S. Iran sanctions, money laundering and breaking export laws by purchasing an oil tanker from a U.S. seller.
Iran has angrily reacted to the designation of Tehran-backed Lebanese Hezbollah as a terrorist group in Germany, but the reaction has been limited regardless of the strongly worded statement by the Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesperson.
The Secretary of Retirees Association of Rasht, the capital of the northern Iranian province of Gilan, on May 1 said 400 retirees have died of COVID-19 in Rasht since February 19.
While admitting that the official death toll from the coronavirus outbreak in Iran has exceeded 6,000, the Islamic Republic Minister of Health warned of a heavy second wave of the disease next autumn and winter.
The U.S. Special manager for Venezuela on May 1 said in a desperate attempt to revive its oil industry, cash-strapped Venezuela is paying Iran with gold in return for Iranian assistance.
The U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on April 30 said the rights of the United States under the UN Security Council Resolution 2231 are separate from the 2015 nuclear agreement with Iran known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).
U.S. senior diplomat Brian Hook spoke with Radio Farda on Iran arms embargo, tensions in the Persian Gulf and Iran sending flights to Venezuela.
Radio Farda interview Mark Dubowitz the CEO of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies about opposition to lifting U.S. sanctions imposed on Iran or any special treatment during the coronavirus pandemic.
Number of deaths in Iran's capital Tehran shows that many more people perished from the epidemic that the country's official admit.
Iran's Supreme Leader has tasked the IRGC with making Persian Gulf islands "habitable", as a way to strengthen its presence in the international waterway.
The Spokesman of Iran's Armed Forces on April 29 said the Law Enforcement Forces (Police) and the Revolutionary Guard's militia arm (Basij) have arrested 3,600 individuals for "spreading rumors about coronavirus".
The bipartisan United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) has singled out Iran and several other countries for criticism in its annual report released on Tuesday, April 28.
A bipartisan group of U.S. House lawmakers on April 27 introduced the Open Technology Fund Authorization Act to help fight social media and news censorship by "oppressive governments" such as Iran, North Korea, China and Russia.
Several conservative contestants for the post of the Speaker of Iran's Parliament (Majles) are trying to prevent Tehran's former Mayor Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf from winning the position.
Any "illegal and provocative move" will be met with the crushing response of the Iranian forces, General Headquarters of the Islamic Republic Armed Forces has warned U.S. forces in the Persian Gulf.
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