Suspected attacks left two tankers in flames in the Gulf of Oman on Thursday, bumping up oil prices and further raising regional tensions triggered by a bitter US-Iran standoff.
Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei says he is not going to respond to U.S. President Donal Trump's message which was conveyed to him by Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in a meeting in Tehran on Thursday June 16.
Workers at the Haft Tapeh Sugar Cane plant say the judicial authorities in Tehran are incessantly harassing their imprisoned co-workers and their relatives.
Fourteen civil rights and political activists in Iran have called for Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei to step down.
A U.K. maritime safety group is warning that an unspecified incident has taken place in the Gulf of Oman and is urging "extreme caution" amid heightened U.S.-Iran tensions.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe says a military conflict should be avoided at all costs amid rising tensions between the United States and Iran.
Iran has been racing to step up exports of petrochemicals and tap new markets to compensate for sliding oil sales, Iranian and international industry sources said, but now risks losing that crucial revenue as Washington tightens the screw on sanctions.
A female passenger was booted from the Iranian version of Uber (Snapp) for not wearing the Islamic veil called the hijab.
Iran's military expenditures have been declining, writes Iranian military analyst Hossein Aryan in an analysis for Radio Farda's Persian website based on data released by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI).
A Lebanese man with permanent U.S. residency who had been imprisoned in Iran for years on charges of espionage said Tuesday that he was subjected to "kidnapping, arbitrary detention and a show trial," adding that his release served to de-escalate tensions between the U.S. and Iran.
The U.S. on Tuesday imposed sanctions on one of Syria's most prominent industrialists, Samer Foz, known for high-end holdings including the Four Seasons hotel in Damascus, for allegedly enriching President Bashar al-Assad.
The Iranian judiciary has announced new regulations requiring state officials to declare their assets, Iranian news agencies reported on June 11
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