Following the death of a street vendor on August 12 in the Iranian city of Qom, five suspects have been summoned to court, the city’s prosecutor announced.
Reporters Without Borders, RSF, has criticized the detention of the deputy editor of a reformist daily newspaper in Iran.
The United Arab Emirates signalled its desire to strengthen ties with Iraq during weekend talks with influential Iraqi Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr as part of efforts by Sunni nations of the Middle East to halt Iran's growing regional influence.
Iranian authorities are scrambling to find a solution to the case of two football (soccer) players, who have been threatened with expulsion from the national team because they played in a match for their Greek club against an Israeli team.
Saudi Arabia has reportedly asked Iraq to play the role of a mediator between Riyadh and Tehran, to reduce tensions between the two countries.
Iranian journalist Sasan Aghaei has been reportedly arrested.The charges against Aghaei, who works for the reformist daily Etemad, are not clear.
Iran's parliament has ended the death penalty for certain drug violations, raising the thresholds that can trigger capital punishment in a move that could prevent thousands from being executed.
Iran's parliament has given initial approval to a bill to increase spending on the country's missile program and the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) in response to recent sanctions imposed by the United States.
Iran says it is in talks with the European aircraft manufacturer Airbus about the possible purchase 48 helicopters for civilian use.
Kuwaiti authorities arrested 12 convicted members of a "terrorist cell" with ties to Iran's Revolutionary Guard and the Lebanon's Hizballah movement on August 12 after a weeks-long manhunt.
A US freedom-of-religion monitor has welcomed the release of an Iranian Christian who had worked with a once-imprisoned Iranian-American pastor freed in a January 2016 prisoner swap.
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