Iran is considering releasing some Americans it has detained, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Tuesday, as the United States imposed fresh sanctions on Iran.
A British-Iranian woman serving a five-year prison term in Tehran for sedition was released from jail for two weeks on March 17, her husband said.
Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has asked the international community to reject U.S. economic sanctions against his country amid a deadly coronavirus epidemic.
An Iranian environmentalist behind bars in Tehran's notorious Evin prison is suspected of having contracted coronavirus and taken to Taleqani hospital, his sister disclosed in a tweet.
With 125 more fatalities over the past 24 hours Iran's death toll from coronavirus (COVID-19) reached 988 on March 17. The figure only shows deaths from coronavirus confirmed by testing but observers believe the death toll is much higher, even as much as five-fold.
Iran’s currency rial continued to lose value against major currencies on Tuesday, reaching as low as 160,000 to the U.S. dollar at one point amid a quickly worsening coronavirus (COVID-19) epidemic and falling oil prices.
The Director of Emergency Operations in the World Health Organization’s (WHO) new Emergencies Program, on March 17 said that Iran's coronavirus (COVID-19) death toll is underreported due to testing being restricted to sever cases and can be potentially five times higher.
China’s foreign ministry has appealed to the United States to “immediately lift unilateral” sanctions against the Islamic Republic, to fight against the coronavirus pandemic.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo warned Iraq Monday the US would retaliate "as necessary" against any new assaults on Americans after a slew of rocket attacks.
Chief of The Greater Tehran Intelligence and Public Security Police on Monday said five individuals whose funny video clips made with special effects showing eggplants (aubergines) raining down from the sky in Tehran have been arrested. The video clips went viral on Iran social media on Sunday.
A Shi'a university-seminary in Iran has lambasted the most senior Sunni cleric in the country for protesting novel coronavirus outbreak in Iran through Chinese Shi'ite religious students based in the city of Qom.
A top Shi'a cleric in Iran has denied approving the purchase of a possible anti-coronavirus vaccine from Israel, which Islamic Republic considers as its top enemy.
Load more