An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.9 has struck in northwestern Iran in the East Azerbaijan Province, killing at least five people, state media have reported.
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says Iran’s actions calls for all nations to reject its “nuclear extortion” and take “serious steps to increase pressure.”
Iran is commemorating the 40th anniversary of the 1979 student takeover of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran and the subsequent 444-day hostage crisis.
Iran remains "the world’s worst state sponsor of terrorism," funding international terrorist groups and engaging in "its own terrorist plotting" around the globe, particularly in Europe, a new report by the U.S. State Department says.
The United States has extended nuclear-cooperation waivers on Iran's civil nuclear program to "help preserve oversight" of the sector but at the same time imposed new sanctions on the country's construction industry because of its links to the hard-line Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).
A total of 403,338 people have returned to Afghanistan from neighboring Iran and Pakistan since the beginning of the year, the UN-affiliated International Organization for Migration (IOM) said in a report released on October 31.
Iraqi Prime Minister Adil Abdul-Mahdi has ordered the country’s elite Counter-Terrorism Service (CTS) to help put down anti-government protests that have rocked the country over the past weeks, Western news agencies are reporting.
An UN independent expert charged with monitoring human rights in Iran has found it “distressing” that Tehran continues using the death penalty, including executing minors, in a report he presented to the UN General Assembly on October 23.
Albanian police thwarted an attack allegedly planned by a Tehran-backed "terrorist cell" against opponents of the Iranian regime in the Balkan country last year, police said on October 23.
Iran has been banned from international judo competitions indefinitely over the country's refusal to face Israeli competitors.
Iran has rejected the establishment of Turkish military posts inside of Syria saying borders between the two countries should be respected.
Japan says it will not join a U.S.-led coalition to protect shipping in vital commerce lanes in the Middle East but will send its own vessels to ensure safe delivery of oil to Japan.
Majority state-owned Turkish bank Halkbank has been criminally charged in an indictment for involvement in a multibillion-dollar scheme to evade U.S. sanctions against Iran.
Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived in Saudi Arabia on October 14 amid rising tensions in the Persian Gulf and is expected to ink oil agreements, according to statements on the Kremlin’s website.
Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan arrived in Iran on Sunday following a request from the United States and Saudi Arabia for him to try to defuse rising tensions in the Gulf.
Iranian Oil Minister Bijan Zanganeh says China's national petroleum company has pulled out of a $5 billion deal to help develop Iran's giant South Pars natural gas field in the Persian Gulf.
The United States and Greece have signed an updated defense-cooperation pact, a move Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said was not aimed against any one nation in the region, including Turke
The British-flagged oil tanker that was seized by Iran in July has arrived at Dubai's Port Rashid in the United Arab Emirates, according ship-tracking websites.
U.S. President Donald Trump says he rejected a request by Tehran to lift U.S. sanctions in exchange for talks, amid heightened tensions between the two countries over Iran’s nuclear program and other issues.
FIFA is considering a move to send observers to Tehran to make sure women spectators are allowed to attend the World Cup 2022 soccer qualifying match between Iran and Cambodia next month.
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