Six Iranian-kurdish political groups in a joint statement called for boycott of presidential and local council elections in Iran scheduled for May 19.
The United States has cut by nearly half the number of visas it has issued to citizens of Iran and other countries targeted by President Donald Trump's travel ban even though courts have prevented that ban from taking effect.
Israel is seeking an "understanding" with the Trump administration that Iran must not be allowed to establish a permanent military foothold in Syria, Israel's intelligence minister told Reuters in an interview on April 26.
Ten Iranian border guards were killed by Sunni militants in a cross-border attack on the frontier with Pakistan on April 26, Iranian media reported.
European lawmakers say Russia and Iran are among a group of countries that are increasingly abusing Interpol red notices to seek the arrest of political opponents, contributing to a five-fold increase of red notices during the past decade.
Iran's election supervisory body issued a statement on Wednesday saying that the country's state broadcaster, Seda va Sima, is not providing fair and equal coverage to all six candidates in the presidential race.
The Pentagon said on April 26 that a U.S. warship fired a warning flare after an Iranian Revolutionary Guards vessel made a close approach to the ship in the Persian Gulf.
“There’s nowhere to go to and raise complaints against Seda va Sima”, the only Radio and TV network allowed to run inside Iran, says former president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
U.S. prosecutors said they will show that a Turkish-Iranian gold trader coordinated an illegal scheme to help Iran evade U.S. sanctions with people at "high levels" in Turkey and Iran.
A relative of two Iranian-Americans imprisoned in Iran has said their health is deteriorating in Tehran's Evin prison and urged U.S. President Donald Trump to take "personal responsibility" for freeing them.
Iran's supreme leader has called on presidential candidates to focus on making the economy grow without help from the West, distancing himself from President Hassan Rohani's policy of promoting growth through foreign trade and investment.
Iran's Supreme Court has upheld a five-year jail sentence imposed on a British-Iranian charity worker for allegedly violating national security, her family said on April 24.