Iranian state television has broadcast the coerced confessions of at least 355 people over the past decade as a means to suppress dissent and frighten activists in the Islamic Republic on behalf of security services, according to a report released Thursday.
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The U.S. ambassador to Iran mistakenly told the shah in 1953 that Britain’s newly enthroned Queen Elizabeth II backed a plan to overthrow the country’s elected prime minister and America maintained the fiction even after realizing the error, historians now say.
Read moreTehran said Tuesday it will execute an Iranian for spying for the United States and Israel after his conviction was upheld for helping the United States to locate General Qasem Soleimani, whom the U.S. killed a drone strike.
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Huawei chief financial officer Meng Wanzhou should face extradition proceedings initiated by the United States, a Canadian court ruled Wednesday, finding the Chinese telecom executive’s alleged misrepresentations to HSBC about an Iranian subsidiary in 2013 pass the crucial “double-criminality” test under Canada’s Extradition Act.
Read moreIran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said it was an “Islamic duty” to fight for the “liberation of Palestine” in a landmark speech Friday amid rising tensions with archenemy Israel.
Read moreFive Iranian tankers believed to be carrying at least $45.5 million worth of gasoline and oil products are sailing to Venezuela, part of a wider deal between the two U.S.-sanctioned nations amid heightened tensions between Tehran and Washington.
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An Iranian missile fired during a training exercise in the Gulf of Oman struck a support vessel near its target, killing 19 Iranian sailors and wounding 15, Iran’s state media reported Monday, amid heightened tensions between Tehran and Washington.
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The Senate failed Thursday to override President Donald Trump’s veto of a resolution limiting his authority to take military action against Iran.
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The new coronavirus pandemic has brought back something unseen in Iran since its 1979 Islamic Revolution: a drive-in movie theater.
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President Donald Trump fanned the flames of military conflict Wednesday, tweeting that the U.S. will not tolerate its vessels being pestered by Iran’s naval forces.
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Iran’s Revolutionary Guard said Wednesday it put the Islamic Republic’s first military satellite into orbit, unveiling what experts described as a secret space program with a surprise launch that came amid tensions with the United States.
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South Korea says at least 74 people who had been diagnosed as recovered from the new coronavirus tested positive for the second time after they were released from hospitals.
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Iranian President Hassan Rouhani urged the International Monetary Fund on Wednesday to give the sanctions-hit country a $5 billion emergency loan to combat its novel coronavirus pandemic.
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Mahdi Noori, a young Afghan refugee in Iran, was left jobless when the factory where he’d worked cutting stone was shut down because of the coronavirus. He had no money, was afraid of contracting the virus and had no options. So he headed home.
Read moreNot even a pandemic’s relentless spread could stop the prosecution of Turkey’s state-run Halkbank, which pleaded not guilty Tuesday to a record-breaking money-laundering scheme.
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European nations have delivered medical equipment to Iran in the first transaction under the Instex mechanism set up to bypass U.S. sanctions on Tehran, the German foreign ministry said Tuesday.
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Standing over the still body of an intubated 5-year-old boy wearing nothing but a plastic diaper, an Iranian health care worker in a hazmat suit and mask begged the public for just one thing: Stop drinking industrial alcohol over fears about the new coronavirus
Read moreSpurning calls to de-escalate tensions as Iran’s death toll from Covid-19 rises daily, the U.S. leveled sanctions Thursday against at least 12 people and five companies linked to the country’s Revolutionary Guard.
Read moreBob Levinson, the longest-held captive in U.S. history and former intelligence community member, died in Iranian custody, his family and the White House said in a statement Wednesday.
Read moreErdal Kuyumcu was properly convicted of conspiracy to violate the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, the Second Circuit ruled. Kuyumcu had pleaded guilty but claimed his plea allocution was insufficient to prove his involvement in a plan to channel cobalt alloy with nuclear and missile applications to Iran.
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