Tag: Iran

TEHRAN, Iran Iran’s first democratically-elected president after the 1979 revolution, Abolhassan Bani-Sadr, died in Paris on Saturday aged 88 after ...

ISTANBUL A welcoming ceremony was held Friday by the Turkish Trade Ministry in Istanbul after the Islamabad-Tehran-Istanbul Road Transport Corridor ...

ISTANBUL  A critical railway in Turkey's region, the Istanbul-Tehran-Islamabad (ITI) freight train, expected to relaunch in 2021, has created a ...

Germany’s foreign minister on Tuesday warned Iran that time is running out for diplomatic efforts to rescue the 2015 nuclear ...

Members of the China and Russia-led Shanghai Cooperation Organisation have endorsed Iran's future membership of the bloc that already includes ...

Iran's permanent membership in the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) was approved on Friday during the multilateral alliance's ongoing summit in ...

Dozens of tanker trucks carrying Iranian fuel arranged by Hezbollah have arrived in shortage-hit Lebanon, a move the group said ...

Tehran on Sunday allowed the UN nuclear watchdog to “service” the surveillance cameras installed at Iranian nuclear sites in a ...

Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz on Sunday accused Iran of training militants on how to operate advanced drones in an ...

UN nuclear watchdog chief Rafael Grossi will fly to Tehran this weekend for talks that may ease a standoff between ...

Israel's army chief Aviv Kohavi warned that preparations to strike Iran over its nuclear program have "greatly accelerated," Israeli media ...

A top Iranian official on Saturday accused US President Joe Biden of illegally threatening his country, adding that if the ...

Iran's top security official has termed the departure of US forces from Afghanistan as "humiliating", days after the Taliban took ...

PARIS Anticipating a major influx of irregular migrants from the ongoing crisis in Afghanistan, European states will establish an “initiative ...

The entrenching work, as well as the construction of a modular wall and observation tower to prevent illegal activity, are ...

Turkish National Defense Minister Hulusi Akar, together with military commanders, conducted on-site inspections of measures taken on the Iranian border ...

Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett on Wednesday discussed the Iranian nuclear issue with CIA Director William Burns amid rising tensions ...

Israeli defense minister said Tel Aviv is "ready to attack Iran", adding Iran represented "a global challenge". Benny Gantz's comments ...

TEHRAN Top Iranian conservative and former judiciary chief Ebrahim Raeisi was sworn in as the country's new president on Thursday ...

Iran has fired up advanced uranium-enriching centrifuges that it had installed underground at its Natanz site in the latest breach ...

1 day ago SHARE With Democratic nominee Joe Biden securing a hotly contested presidential election by defeating Republican incumbent Donald ...

Many Iranians will quietly welcome Joe Biden’s victory as an avenue of possible relief from the crippling US sanctions and ...

Bahrain leads the charge in befriending Israel as Gulf nations prioritise the Iranian 'threat' and shove Palestine off the agenda.It ...

A Chinese investment pledge to the tune of a whopping $400 billion puts a wrench in American plans to isolate ...

Donald Trump has one less hawk in his administration, that much is certain. What is unclear is whether it means ...

Petulant snubs to Israel in sporting competitions make Arabs and Muslims look insecure and unsportsmanlike - and do nothing to ...

Saudi Arabia has failed to devise a long-term strategy in the region while decades of Iranian planning now bears fruit.In ...

Donald Trump cannot drag the US into another war ahead of an election and Iran is suffering from a crumbling ...

Whether it was Houthi drones or Iranian cruise missiles, the recent attacks highlight the need to end Yemen’s civil war.US ...

The first step towards hegemony over the Arab world was the snuffing out of the Arab Spring movements.My first reaction ...

The Saudi-Iran feud risks spilling over into Afghanistan as both countries push for greater influence with competing groups in the ...

A window for rapprochement in the Gulf could be in the offing as the US tones down its rhetoric on ...

The US and Iran must move past the politics of vengeance and enmity.November 4 marks the 40th anniversary of the ...

Iraqi demonstrators are being killed in the streets for demanding an end to a corrupt status quo propped installed by ...

Iran stands to lose the most in the near future, but Saudi Arabia won't be far behind as protesters across ...

Iraq's ruling elite fear the unity of the Iraqi people because it directly undermines their divisive rule.The news that the ...

The leaked Iranian cables show that Iran has outmanoeuvred the US in Iraq, but the tragedy is that Iraqis are ...

Iran's leadership needs to be held to account for its brutal response to protests in Iran, and in those countries ...

Middle Eastern governments have valid reasons to fear foreign conspiracies but deflecting blame on foreign hands instead of addressing citizens' ...

The recent wave of uprisings across the Middle East represents a continuation of the revolutionary process that began in 2011, ...

Iranian backed militias seem just as powerful as they did before this latest escalation as demonstrated by the ongoing crisis ...

Both Washington and Tehran have embarked on reckless foreign policies in Iraq, which deny Baghdad sovereignty and have led to ...

The Iranian general was the key figure in stretching Tehran's influence across the Middle East. His death will be a ...

The more likely scenarios are that Tehran would revert to nuclear enrichment and follow Ayatollah Khamenei’s call for 'maximum pressure' ...

An escalated conflict between the US and Iran will reverberate in Pakistan and Afghanistan.For Afghanistan and Pakistan, the alarming escalation ...

The Iranian response to the assassination of Soleimani may have been for domestic consumption, but Trump's erratic decision-making may still ...

Iran has been rehearsing its response to the United States for two years - and this might just be the ...

US-Iranian absolutism could have been mitigated had the European Union and the United Nations shown some teeth over the last ...