The United States faces a formidable adversary in talks with Islamic Republic, a former top US intelligence official told Iran International, and Tehran's aim could be to buy time for its nuclear program.
The Lebanese state must have a monopoly on weapons in the country and the transfer of Iran-backed Hezbollah's arms to Beirut should proceed via direct talks between the presidency and the group, Lebanon’s president Joseph Aoun said on Tuesday.
Over 150 hardline Iranian lawmakers urged a key decision-making body on Tuesday to block Iran’s accession to the Countering the Financing of Terrorism and Palermo conventions, two key components of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) reform package.
Iran's Supreme Leader has expressed a mix of cautious optimism and profound skepticism regarding the ongoing talks with the United States, dismissing the talks as only one of Foreign Ministry’s dozens of tasks.
A hacker group reported breaching the customer database of Iran's largest mobile operator, Mobile Communications Company of Iran (MCI), and accessing the personal data of 30 million of its subscribers.
In a scathing response to an op-ed article by former US Secretary of State John Kerry, Iran's hardline Kayhan daily dismissed his assertion that Tehran is backed into a corner due to recent developments.
Twelve Iranian lawyers who represented protesters during nationwide antigovernment protests in 2022 have been sentenced to three years in prison and fined, a human rights group said, underscoring a continuing crackdown on civil society.
Pakistan called on Iranian authorities to identify and detain those responsible for the killing of eight Pakistani nationals in southeastern Iran.
Iran’s foreign ministry spokesperson said that US-Iran negotiations are indirect because direct talks would not be effective or beneficial for the Islamic Republic.
A day after talks between Iranian and American officials in Oman, Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei told military commanders that Iran’s armed forces must maintain maximum readiness to confront hostile pressure.
The initial indirect nuclear discussions between Iran and the United States in Muscat established a tone of equality between the two parties, according to Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi.
Iran’s nuclear program has dominated global headlines for over two decades, drawing in multiple US presidents, triggering waves of sanctions, and raising persistent fears of a regional war.
The trial of two Romanian nationals accused of attacking Iran International TV presenter Pouria Zeraati has been postponed by five weeks on the order of a judge at the Central Criminal Court of England and Wales.
If US President Donald Trump’s shock announcement in the Oval Office on Wednesday that his administration was due to hold talks with Iran this weekend was a surprise, the choice of Oman as host was not.
Tehran and Washington are heading into high-stakes talks in Oman this weekend that could determine the path ahead: diplomacy or war. The outcome may shape not only regional stability, but the survival of the Islamic Republic, which has ruled Iran for more than four decades.
The planned amputation of three men’s fingers in Iran amounts to torture and must be halted immediately, the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Iran told Iran International in an interview.
Iranian authorities had removed several organs from dual national Jamshid Sharmahd before transferring his body to Berlin after his sudden death in an Iranian prison while awaiting execution, the family's lawyers said Friday.
Iran plans to amputate the fingers of three men convicted of theft on Friday just days after executing five political prisoners, prompting alarm from UN human rights experts and international rights groups.
Iran’s top commanders sharpened their rhetoric against the United States and Israel ahead of expected diplomatic contacts in Oman, boasting of technical superiority and strategic endurance in the face of Western pressure.
An Argentine prosecutor has requested the arrest of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei in connection with the 1994 bombing of a Jewish community center in Buenos Aires that killed 85 people.
The United States on Wednesday imposed sanctions on five Iranian companies and one individual for their alleged support of Iran’s nuclear program, the Treasury Department said.
Germany’s Federal Prosecutor says the investigation into the 1992 murder of dissident Iranian singer Fereydoun Farrokhzad remains open, following claims by an ex-IRGC official that the Islamic Republic ordered the killing in Bonn.