iran
12 Mar
Iran has arrested four people on suspicion of giving a foreign-based broadcaster video of an argument between a Shiite cleric and a woman not wearing the mandatory headscarf, Iranian media reported Tuesday. Closed-circuit television footage of the row in Iran's Shiite clerical centre of Qom has gone viral on social media and has also been…
22 Feb
The United States will soon impose new sanctions on Iran over its backing for Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the White House said Thursday.
10 Feb
A total of 17 Huthi fighters were killed in US strikes, the Iran-backed Yemeni rebel group said through its official media Saturday, following public funerals in the capital Sanaa.
10 Feb
Iran's football federation said Saturday it has asked world football's governing body, FIFA, to suspend Israel's football federation over the country's war in Gaza.
4 Feb
Iran on Sunday denounced the latest US and UK strikes on targets in Yemen saying they "contradict" their declared intention of avoiding a wider Middle East conflict.
29 Jan
Iran on Monday hanged four members of its Kurdish minority on charges of spying for Israel, defying a campaign for their lives to be spared by rights groups who had described their trial as grossly unfair.
20 Jan
Iran's Revolutionary Guards launched a research satellite Saturday, a minister said, putting it into a higher orbit in a new milestone for its aerospace programme that has faced Western criticism.
20 Jan
An Israeli strike on Damascus killed the Iranian Revolutionary Guards' spy chief for Syria and three other Guards members on Saturday, Iranian media said, in an attack that flattened a multi-storey residential building.
15 Jan
President Biden says America has delivered a "private message" to Iran about the Houthis in Yemen after the United States carried out a second strike on the group.
9 Jan
An Iranian court has sentenced pop singer Mehdi Yarrahi to prison time and 74 lashes after he released a song criticising the mandatory headscarf for women, his lawyer said Tuesday. Yarrahi, 42, had been arrested in August for distributing an "illegal song" that challenged "the morals and customs of Islamic society." He was released on…
5 Jan
A shop owner in Iran has been sentenced to two years in prison after publishing photos without a headscarf, the U.S.-based human rights network, HRANA, said on Friday.
4 Jan
Chinese President Xi Jinping offered his condolences Thursday over twin bomb blasts in close ally Iran, telling his counterpart Ebrahim Raisi that he was "shocked" by the incidents that left at least 84 people dead.