Amid positive comments from OPEC on the global oil supply situation and indications that some members of the cartel are ready for a longer extension of the production cut deal, Iran’s Oil Minister Bijan Zanganeh …
Iranian state TV on Wednesday aired a fabricated news story claiming that the Turkish army had used chemical weapons against PYD/PKK terrorists in Afrin, northwestern Syria, Yeni Safak reports. Citing Al-Alam, another Iranian state channel, …
Turkey has been involved in a new diplomatic maneuver on Syria before a set of crucial talks with its NATO ally the U.S. Following an unscheduled security meeting on the evening of Feb. 6, chaired …
Human Rights Watch has called on Iran to stop executing child offenders after three people were put to death in January for crimes they committed as minors, RFERL reports. In a February 7 statement, the …
The Trump administration is “deeply concerned” that a U.S. citizen was returned to prison in Iran after a brief medical leave and wants him released immediately, White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said on …
On Sunday, security forces in Iran besieged the house of one of the most well-known leaders of Shiite Sufism. Noor Ali Tabandeh’s residence was quickly surrounded by his supporters who gathered peacefully to protest the …
Ayatollah Sayyed Ebrahim Raisi, a member of Iran’s Assembly of Experts who is thought to be the designated successor of Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, visited Lebanon and Syria at the end of January 2018, …
Two major Iraqi Shiite groups backed by Iran are demanding all U.S. forces leave Iraq, opposing plans by Baghdad and Washington to keep some there for training and advisory purposes, Gulf News reports. An Iraqi …
Iraqi Kurds have given reassurances to Tehran that they will not allow Kurdish opposition groups to launch cross-border attacks from Iraqi Kurdistan, a major development in the warming up of relations between Erbil and Tehran. …
French foreign minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said on Wednesday that all Iranian militia, including Hezbollah, must leave Syria, whose civil war has thrown the Middle East into turmoil, Arab News reports. Asked in an interview …
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