The United States on Monday imposed sanctions on nine people close to Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, including his chief of staff, one of his sons and the head of the judiciary.
Our ruling establishment is based on Shari'a, and in no way, we will ever give away our religious principles, the head of the Islamic Republic Judiciary has reacted to criticisms of Iran’s human rights violations.
The European Union on Monday warned its support for the Iran nuclear deal depends on Tehran fulfilling its commitments, after Iranian officials announced a major increase in enriched uranium production.
An Iranian aviation industry representative says flights to Baghdad and the Iraqi city of Najaf have stopped.
Iran is launching a new array of 30 advanced IR-6 centrifuges on Monday, the country's nuclear chief Ali Akbar Salehi told state television, scaling back Tehran's commitments under a nuclear agreement with major powers.
Iran is commemorating the 40th anniversary of the 1979 student takeover of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran and the subsequent 444-day hostage crisis.
A Revolutionary Court judge in Iran says three suspects in a legal case involving financial corruption at Bank Mellat (Nation Bank) have fled Iran and currently live in London and somewhere in Switzerland.
Dozens of Iraqi protesters attacked the Iranian consulate in the Shiite holy city of Karbala on Sunday, scaling the concrete barriers ringing the building, bringing down an Iranian flag and replacing it with the Iraqi flag, eyewitnesses said.
A prominent critic of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei in Iran has said that the notion of supreme religious rule is “the foundation of oppression” imposed on the people of Iran since 1979.
The secretary of a religious watchdog office in Iran has admitted that since the establishment of the Islamic Republic four decades ago (1979), the authorities have executed 15,000 people for drug-related crimes.
The deputy of the Islamic Republic Interior Ministry in security and intelligence affairs says that authorities have arrested seven spectators who had attended a noisy soccer match that took on political overtones in the city of Tabriz.
For drought-stricken Iran, a second year of heavy rains have brought much needed water but also floods, killing two people.
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