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An Iranian official has said that a rocket exploded on its launchpad at the Imam Khomeini Space Center ahead of a planned launch, the apparent third failed launch this year by Tehran.
Iran won’t talk to the United States unless it lifts all the sanctions Washington has imposed on Tehran, President Hassan Rohani has said, after President Donald Trump said he was open to meeting him under the “right” circumstances.
An Iranian court has sentenced writer and satirist Kioomars Marzban to 23 years and nine months in prison after convicting him of charges including cooperation with the United States.
Iran has debuted a new, locally built long-range missile system as it continues its defiant stance against the United States amid heightened tensions between the two countries.
The shipping agent for an Iranian oil supertanker says the vessel is ready to depart Gibraltar in "24 to 48 hours," despite a last-minute effort by the United States to seize it.
The U.S. State Department has condemned the recent sentencing of three Iranian women, including a mother and daughter, to combined prison terms of 55 years for protesting laws that make wearing a hijab compulsory.
Former Tehran Mayor Mohammad Ali Najafi, recently sentenced to death over the killing of his wife, has had his life spared by her family.
The wife of British-Iranian anthropologist Kameel Ahmady says her husband has been arrested at his home in Iran on unknown charges.
Britain has said that investigations into an Iranian oil tanker its forces captured near Gibraltar was a matter for the government of the British overseas territory to deal with.
Iran is set to allow women to attend men's soccer matches, lifting a decades-long ban following pressure from FIFA. But women will still not be given completely free access to stadiums, with Iranian officials saying there would be separate entrances and seating areas.
Fourteen Iranian women's rights activists have called for the resignation of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and for a "full transition" which would allow the adoption of a new constitution granting equal rights to women.
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says sanctions imposed on him by the United States show Washington's "failure" to find a diplomatic solution to ease tensions in the Persian Gulf.
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Iran has slammed Washington's decision to sanction Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif as part of an escalating campaign of pressure against Tehran, calling the move "childish" and "unwise."
Iran's government has approved a plan to slash four zeros from the national currency, the rial, as the country tries to cope with high inflation.
Former Tehran Mayor Mohammad Ali Najafi has been sentenced to death after being convicted of murdering his second wife earlier this year.
U.S. President Donald Trump has vehemently denied claims from Tehran that Iranian security agencies have arrested 17 suspects and sentenced some of them to death after dismantling a CIA spy ring.
President Donald Trump has called Iran's downing of a U.S. military drone a "very big mistake," fueling fears that simmering tensions between the two countries may boil over into a military conflict.
A wife of reformist former Tehran Mayor Mohammad Ali Najafi has been killed, Iranian media reports say.
Acid attack survivors in Iran have welcomed new legislation that imposes stiffer sentences on their assailants. But activists say authorities in the Islamic republic still need to go further to prevent women from being targeted with acid attacks.
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