In a new report, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) named Turkmenistan, Iran, and Belarus as being among the ten worst countries for press censorship.
Air strikes have hit positions of Iran-backed forces and allied militias in eastern Syria, killing 18 fighters, according to a group monitoring the war.
Iranian news agencies say that the country's coast-guard forces have seized a vessel in the Persian Gulf and detained its 12 crew members.
U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper has hinted that Iran might be nearer to an opportunity for new talks despite Tehran's latest move away from adherence to international curbs on its nuclear activities.
The United States imposed sanctions a network of companies, ships, and individuals it says has supplied Syria with millions of barrels of oil in a breach of U.S. sanctions.
A senior U.S. diplomat has ruled out providing any sanctions waivers to accommodate a French proposal to extend a $15 billion credit line to Iran.
Iran says it has freed seven crew members it detained after seizing the British tanker Stena Impero nearly two months ago.
Iran's foreign minister has accused the United States of an overreliance on sanctions and said the latest punitive measures out of Washington targeting his country's space and research sectors are "totally ineffective."
President Hassan Rohani has warned that Iran could take "the most important" step away from its nuclear commitments under a deal with world powers.
Iran’s Prime Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif departed for Moscow on September 2 to meet with his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov to discuss bilateral and regional issues.
The United States has sanctioned the Iranian oil tanker Adrian Darya 1 and its captain under an executive order that “targets terrorists and those providing support to terrorism or acts of terrorism.”
An Iranian official has said that a rocket exploded on its launch pad at the Imam Khomeini Space Center ahead of a planned launch, the apparent third failed launch this year by Tehran.
U.S. national-security adviser John Bolton says President Donald Trump’s willingness to talk to Iranian President Hassan Rohani about Tehran’s nuclear program does not imply that the U.S. leader is about to change his tough stance on Iran.
Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah on Sunday warned the Israeli army stationed along the border with Lebanon that his movement was preparing an imminent response to two Israeli drones which crashed overnight in a suburb of Beirut.
French President Emmanuel Macron has scheduled a meeting with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif in a bid to save a 2015 international deal to curb Tehran's nuclear program.
French President Emmanuel Macron will meet with Iranian officials before this weekend’s summit of the Group of Seven advanced economies to offer proposals on reducing tension between Washington and Tehran, Reuters reported.
U.S. President Donald Trump has said that other countries must take up the battle against the Islamic State (IS) extremist group, citing Afghanistan, Iran, Pakistan, and Russia as examples.
An Iranian supertanker sought by the United States on suspicion of being tied to a sanctioned organization has set sail for Greece hours after Gibraltar rejected a U.S. request to detain the vessel further.
Authorities in Tehran have released four Iranian women from a detention center after they were arrested for allegedly dressing as men to circumvent a ban against women attending soccer matches in the Islamic republic, a Human Rights Watch researcher (HRW) says.
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