An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.4 with a depth of 20 kilometers struck Qaleh Qazi near Bandar Abbas in southern Iran at 17:19 local time on Monday.
Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad-Javad Zarif says U.S. airstrikes in Iraq which killed at least 25 fighters are “a clear example of terrorism".
A newspaper in Iran has reported that higher gasoline prices announced in November has paralyzed the country’s family fishing industry, affecting 60,000 fishermen.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has said that the United States and the European Union should either comply with the terms of the 2015 nuclear agreement with Tehran, or recognize it as nonexistent.
The United States said on December 29 that it had bombed five targets in Iraq and Syria controlled by an Iraqi Shi'a paramilitary group with suspected ties to Iran's elite Quds Force.
In another clear sign of the once all-powerful Larijani family losing influence in Iran, the country’s Judiciary announced that Mohammad Javad Larijani has been removed as head of Iran's Human Rights Headquarters.
The police chief of western Tehran Province has said that eight people who played a major role in Iran’s mid-November anti-government protests in the townships near the capital have been arrested.
Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthis said six "sensitive" locations in Saudi Arabia and three in the United Arab Emirates are on a list of strike targets, the group's al-Masirah TV reported on Sunday, quoting a Houthi military spokesman.
An Iraqi general said Sunday that security has been beefed up around the Ain al-Asad air base, a sprawling complex in the western Anbar desert that hosts U.S. forces, following a series of attacks.
Iran accused France on Sunday of "interference" in the case of an Iranian-French academic held in the Islamic republic, saying she is considered an Iranian national and faces security charges.
Amnesty International has once again voiced concern about torture and mistreatment of prisoners arrested during mid-November unrest in Iran and has called on concerned people to sign a petition.
Alireza Firouzja, a top-rated chess player from Iran and the world's number two ranked junior player, has won the silver medal at the World Rapid & Blitz chess championship.
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