Iranian media have disclosed details about a 2014 corruption case at the Tehran Municipality when conservative figure Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf was Tehran's mayor.
Britain said on Monday it was joining a U.S.-led maritime security mission in the Gulf to protect merchant vessels travelling through the Strait of Hormuz.
The spokesman of Iran's Atomic Energy Organization says Tehran will go ahead with the "third step" in reducing its commitments under the 2015 nuclear deal if Europeans fail to fulfil their obligations within the next month.
German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas on Monday reiterated that Germany would not join a U.S.-led naval mission in the Strait of Hormuz.
Iran runs security in the Strait of Hormuz and will no longer tolerate "maritime offences" there, its foreign minister said on Monday, a day after it seized a second oil tanker near the strategic waterway that it accused of smuggling fuel.
Iraq’s oil ministry announced on Sunday it has no connection with an oil tanker seized by Iran and claimed to be smuggling oil, Iraqi media reported.
Two Iranian officials confirmed on Sunday, August 4, that the Islamic Republic's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif turned down an American Senator's offer to visit the White House.
Iran says one of its fighter jets has crashed in the southern province of Bushehr because of technical problem, Iranian media reported on August 4, adding that two people onboard the jet were safe.
Iran's Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) has seized a foreign oil tanker in the Gulf that it says was smuggling fuel to some Arab states, Iran's state TV reported, adding that seven sailors onboard of the tanker had been detained.
An Iranian general said on Sunday the chances of a conflict breaking out in the Gulf region have decreased, after a spate of hostile acts in the key waterway.
U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham has said that if the news about Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif having been invited to the White House is true, it would send a bad message.
After eleven years behind bars in Tehran's infamous prison, Evin, Saeed Malekpour managed to land in the country of his residence, Canada, on Friday, August 2.
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