Tensions between Iran and the United States are likely to be one of the first major foreign policy challenges for the incoming Trump administration. Tehran’s recent moves have brought Iran closer ...

Italy summoned Iran’s ambassador on Thursday to demand the immediate release of an Italian journalist detained in Tehran, as ...

ROME (AP) — Iran warned Italy on Friday that it risked harming good bilateral relations if it bows to the “political and hostile goals” of the United States ... s case inside the prison ...

Jimmy Carter's critics turned his name into a synonym for weakness over the Iranian hostage crisis. But by any measure, he ...

Jimmy Carter died on December 29 at the age of 100. The former US president pursued humanitarian work after leaving office ...

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Barry Rosen, one of the 52 Americans held in Iran during the hostage crisis from 1979 to 1981, on President Jimmy Carter's quest to bring about their safe release.

WASHINGTON — The United States has imposed sanctions on two groups linked to Iranian and Russian efforts ... a spokesperson for Russia’s embassy in Washington wrote in an email Tuesday.

WASHINGTON — The United States has imposed ... a spokesperson for Russia's embassy in Washington wrote in an email Tuesday. A message left with officials from Iran was not immediately returned ...

In 1979, as Christmas approached, the United States Embassy in Tehran held more than ... that the gesture had some propaganda value to the Iranian militants, but he saw a chance to lower the ...

Inside Iran ... After decades of US sanctions that have retarded the development of its petroleum sector, Iran—home to the second largest natural gas reserves in the world—is facing gas ...

which is designated a terrorist organization by the US and the European Union, as well as some other countries. An AFP photographer reported last week on the vandalism at the Iranian embassy.