Iran has discovered a new oil field in the country’s south with over 50 billion barrels of crude, its president said Sunday, a find that could boost the country’s proven reserves by a third as it struggles to sell energy abroad over U.S. sanctions.
Read moreAn Iranian beauty queen sought by Tehran on criminal charges has been granted political asylum in the Philippines, an official said Friday, ending a three-week standoff at Manila airport.
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A magnitude 5.9 earthquake struck northwestern Iran early Friday, killing at least five people and injuring more than 300 others, officials said.
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Iran injected uranium gas into centrifuges at its underground Fordo nuclear complex early Thursday, taking its most significant step away from its 2015 nuclear deal with world powers.
Read moreCall it Schrödinger’s prosecution. Attorneys for a bank charged with the biggest money-laundering scheme to Iran ever alleged in a U.S. court, asserted before a federal judge Tuesday that their Turkish state-run client would not recognize the proceedings.
Read moreIran will start injecting uranium gas into more than 1,000 centrifuges at a fortified nuclear facility inside a mountain, the country’s president said Tuesday in Tehran’s latest step away from its atomic accord with world powers since President Donald Trump withdrew from the deal over a year ago.
Read moreThe Trump administration announced new sanctions Monday on the 40th anniversary of the 1979 Iranian hostage crisis, which gripped the nation as 52 Americans were held hostage for 444 days during a student takeover of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran.
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Iran on Monday broke further away from its collapsing 2015 nuclear deal with world powers by announcing it’s doubling the number of advanced centrifuges it operates, calling the decision a direct result of President Trump’s withdrawal from the agreement.
Read moreIran’s supreme leader said Sunday that his country has outmaneuvered the United States in the four decades since the 1979 Islamic Revolution.
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Forty years since revolutionary students stormed the U.S. Embassy in Tehran and took its staff hostage, the crisis still poisons relations between the arch foes.
Read moreRussia interfered in the 2016 election and may try to sway next year’s vote as well. But it’s not the only nation with its eyes on U.S. politics.
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Across political party lines, most voters are growing increasingly alarmed at the prospect of Iran obtaining nuclear weapons technology, according to a poll released Monday.
Read moreHalkbank is “now a fugitive” from criminal charges implicating the Turkish state-run bank in a multibillion-dollar money-laundering scheme to Iran, a federal prosecutor announced at a Tuesday morning court hearing.
Read moreTwo years have passed since former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani pressed both President Donald Trump and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to free a gold trader charged in America’s biggest Iran money-laundering conspiracy to date.
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Two missiles struck an Iranian tanker traveling through the Red Sea off the coast of Saudi Arabia on Friday, Iranian officials said, the latest incident in the region amid months of heightened tensions between Tehran and the United States.
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Thousands of flag-draped Iranian women cheered, blew horns and celebrated inside a Tehran stadium Thursday as they watched the first FIFA soccer match they’ve been allowed to freely attend in decades.
Read moreA hacking organization linked to the Iranian government launched attacks on Microsoft email accounts associated with an undisclosed U.S. presidential campaign, the tech giant said Friday.
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A British-flagged oil tanker held by Iran since July was released Friday and was heading toward the United Arab Emirates, the company that owns the vessel said.
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The United States is sending a Patriot missile battery and four ground-based radar systems to Saudi Arabia, the Pentagon said Thursday, calling it the first steps to help the kingdom protect itself from Iranian attacks.
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Iran’s president used the world’s stage Wednesday to warn that security in the Persian Gulf could unravel with a “single blunder” and its fragile peace can be guaranteed only by the region’s countries, not through U.S. intervention or Washington’s “merciless economic terrorism.”
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