Poland is considering supporting a U.S.-led mission to protect the Strait of Hormuz, but has not made a formal decision yet.
A group of UN human rights experts on Friday called for the immediate release of three Iranian women given long jail terms for protesting laws compelling women to wear veils.
The United States has warned mariners around the world not to work with any vessel associated with Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, or IRGC, threatening “serious consequences”.
Amid economic crisis, residential real estate prices are rising astronomically in suburbs of Iran’s capital Tehran, with some areas witnessing a 100-500 percent annual increases.
An Iranian supertanker detained in Gibraltar for breaching EU sanctions could be allowed to leave on Friday, but a last minute U.S. legal bid to stop it could yet end up back in court, the territory's first minister said.
Iran’s ambassador to the United Kingdom says his government has not given any commitment to Gibraltar that its freed oil tanker will not sail for Syria.
More than 100 Iranian political activists have criticized the Islamic Republic of Iran in a statement issued on the first anniversary of signing the Caspian Sea legal regime.
A conservative news website in Iran published the leaked contents of a contract between the Iranian Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance and a private company, charging that the Ministry has outsourced book censorship.
The fate of an Iranian oil tanker set to be released by Gibraltar is unclear after the U.S. Department of Justice made a last-minute attempt to seize the vessel at the heart of a standoff between Tehran and London.
The U.S. State Department has condemned hefty prison terms for three Iranian anti-compulsory hijab female activists who have been detained in Iran.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Wednesday she believed the idea of a European naval mission in the Strait of Hormuz would be discussed again.
A series of various videos published on social media in Iran showing public officials in embarrassing sexual acts have led to controversy.
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