Saudi Arabia and Iran agree to restore ties, work towards regional peace
Two of the most powerful and influential Muslim countries in the world - Iran and Saudi Arabia - have agreed to re-establish diplomatic relations...
Amnesty: At least 82 killed outside Sunni mosque in Iran
Amnesty International has accused Iranian security forces of unlawfully killing at least 66 people, including children, and injuring hundreds of others outside a Sunni...
Iran fires missiles at ‘Mossad base’ in Iraqi Kurdistan
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) fired 12 ballistic missiles at what it called "Mossad targets" near the U.S. Consulate in Erbil, the capital...
Conservative Ebrahim Raisi wins Iran’s presidential election
Conservative candidate Ebrahim Raisi has won Iran’s presidential election by a landslide, according to the final results by the Interior Ministry.
Interior Minister Abdolreza Rahmani-Fazli...
Anger against Iranian police after Afghan refugees die in car fire
The deaths of three Afghan refugees in a car fire in central Iran has prompted an outpouring of anger towards police after the blaze...
Iran and Saudi Arabia executed 435 people in 2019
Iran and Saudi Arabia carried out the most executions among Muslim countries in 2019, according to figures released by human rights group Amnesty International.
Amnesty...
U.S. tightens sanctions on Iran in midst of coronavirus crisis
The United States has stepped up its economic sanctions on Iran despite Tehran appealing for relief to cope with its devastating coronavirus pandemic.
The U.S....
Iran admits it shot down Ukrainian airliner
Iran has said the Ukrainian passenger plane which crashed outside Tehran had flown close to a sensitive military site and was brought down due...
Iran denies the West’s accusations of downing Ukraine passenger plane
Western leaders have said evidence suggests an Iranian missile brought down a Ukrainian passenger plane that crashed near Tehran.
Canada and the UK called for...
Iran vows revenge after U.S. assassinates top Iranian general
Iran has vowed to take revenge after the U.S. assassinated Major General Qassem Soleimani, the commander of the Quds Force of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards...