Iran’s Rouhani: Khashoggi murder unthinkable ‘without US backing’

AFP | Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi's "heinous murder" would have been unthinkable "without US backing," Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said on Wednesday. "I don't think...

New US-led sanctions target Iran-Taliban ties

AFP | The US Treasury and allies in the Gulf took aim at Iran's support for the Taliban Tuesday with new sanctions against nine individuals...

Khashoggi case: Iran slams both Riyadh and West

AFP | Iran's judiciary chief on Monday slammed Saudi Arabia over the "heinous murder" of journalist Jamal Khashoggi and blasted Western countries for "double standards". After...

US squeezing Iran: Difficult choices for Pakistan?

Najmuddin A. Shaikh | The EU, France, Germany, China, and Russia; signatories of the JCPOA (the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action) and the IAEA, which...

Iran stays quiet on Khashoggi case

AFP | Iran has been playing it cool as it watches the furore over the disappearance of writer Jamal Khashoggi create a crisis for its...

US sanctions key Iranian paramilitary force

AFP | The US Treasury Department slapped sanctions Tuesday on an Iranian paramilitary group along with a network of businesses that were providing it financing,...

14 Iran security personnel seized on Pakistan border

AFP | Fourteen Iranian security personnel, including Revolutionary Guards intelligence officers, were abducted on the volatile southeastern border with Pakistan on Tuesday, state media reported. The...

Iran embassy in Ankara receives ‘suicide bomb threat’

AFP | An individual who claimed to have links to the Islamic State extremist group threatened to attack the Iranian embassy in Ankara, Tehran's envoy...

Iran’s new breed of charities on poverty frontline

AFP | At an outreach center in southern Tehran, teenagers are learning to be journalists, while upstairs their mothers are fine-tuning their sewing skills and...

US “a loser” for abandoning Iran nuclear deal: Rouhani

AFP | Iran's president boasted Sunday that the United States has lost against the Islamic republic's "righteousness and wisdom" by walking out of the landmark...

No Aid: US sets requirements for Syrian reconstruction

AFP | The United States said Wednesday it will refuse any post-war reconstruction assistance to Syria if Iran is present, expanding the rationale for US...

Iran has ‘unclean hands’: US tries to deflect in world court

AFP | The United States accused Tehran Monday of having "unclean hands" as it fought an Iranian court bid to unfreeze $2.0 billion dollars earmarked...