Tehran, Iran – Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has now been in office for a month and a half in one of the most eventful and tumultuous starting periods for a president since the country’s 1979 revolution. Over the past seven weeks, Iran has grappled with rising tensions with Israel — ...

Tehran, Iran – Ukraine’s Western allies claim Iran has sent short-range ballistic missiles to Russia in a major escalation – a claim Tehran has rejected as “completely baseless and false” and pointed to what it sees as Western hypocrisy. The United States, Britain, France and Germany on ...

The British government has suspended some arms export licences to Israel, saying the weapons could be used to commit violations of international humanitarian law. But the move, which comes amid lingering international criticism of Israel’s killing of more than 40,000 Palestinians in the ...

Tehran, Iran – A giant mural in downtown Tehran is usually a good indication of the mood in Iran. Looking over the bustling Valiasr Square, it displayed ballistic missiles and might when Iran attacked Israel in April. In the days leading up to the run-off presidential election on ...

Tehran, Iran – Iran says it has shot down three quadcopters launched inside its territory and news reports say there have been explosions at some military sites in Syria – taken as indications that Israel has responded to Iran’s missile and drone attacks on its soil last week. Iran said it ...

Israeli fighter jets fired missiles at the Iranian embassy in Syria’s capital Damascus earlier this week, killing senior military commanders. Tehran has said it will retaliate, with experts saying it has options at its disposal with wide-ranging ramifications. But why does Israel keep ...

An adult performer from the United States has stirred controversy after visiting Iran and going to the former US embassy in Tehran. Whitney Wright, 32, from Oklahoma arrived in Iran last week, and confirmed on her social media on Monday that she has left the country. She posted several ...