Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif called on Monday for Europe to use its influence to defuse tensions in the Gulf where Saudi Arabia and its allies have cut ties with Qatar.
The U.S. Supreme Court has overturned lower court orders that blocked U.S. President Donald Trump's administration from enforcing its 90-day ban on travelers from six Muslim-majority countries.
The Israeli military on Sunday said it attacked a series Syrian army targets, after several projectiles from neighboring Syria landed in the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights for a second day.
Iranian authorities have arrested at least 50 people suspected of links to “terrorist” groups in a Western province, a prosecutor said on June 25.
Iranian security forces have reportedly arrested members of a group linked to Islamic State which had planned bombings and suicide attacks in religious centers.
Israeli warplanes hit targets in Syria in response to 10 projectiles falling on its territory, Israeli military announced. Two Syrian tanks were destroyed in Quneitra, on the Golan Heights, according Syrian government media.
Condemning the Friday terror attack near the Great Mosque in Islam's holiest city, Mecca, Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman, expressed Iran’s readiness to provide support for Saudi Arabia's fight against what he called “merchants of death, criminals and the inciters of hatred.”
Qatar on June 24 labelled as "unreasonable" demands made by four Arab states to shutter the Al-Jazeera network, cut most ties with Iran, and close Turkey's air base as the price of ending a regional boycott of the small Persian Gulf state.
Iran’s atomic energy chief Ali Akbar Salehi, who helped forge the 2015 nuclear agreement, warned the United States on June 23 against upsetting the balance of power in the Middle East by siding with arch-rival Saudi Arabia.
Hundreds of thousands of people have taken to the streets of Tehran and other Iranian cities to take part in state-sponsored anti-Israeli rallies marking the annual Quds Day, state media report.
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