Iran’s top diplomat said Tehran is ready for any future Israeli attacks on the country, warning that such action could spark a wider conflagration, in comments aired Saturday. Foreign Minister ...

Iran faces a tough year of confrontation with the incoming Trump administration while holding an exceptionally weak hand after 2024 left it with an acute economic crisis at home and setbacks in ...

Iran has revealed new, mysterious weaponry during large-scale military drills conducted by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), signaling a significant step in strengthening its defense ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. One of the many complex foreign policy problems that Donald Trump will inherit ...

Italian journalist Cecilia Sala has been detained in Iran since Dec. 19 on charges of breaching Islamic law, her plight sparking outrage and a flurry of diplomatic activity involving Rome ...

ROME—The case of Cecilia Sala, the prominent Italian journalist detained in Iran, is becoming a test for Italy’s government, which finds itself caught up in Iran’s shadow war with the U.S ...

The Islamic Republic of Iran executed over 1,000 prisoners in 86 prisons across the country in 2024, according to a report by the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI). The report says the ...

Italy has summoned Iran’s ambassador to demand the immediate release of an Italian journalist who was detained in Tehran in December, as the government and opposition ramp up public pressure on ...

“Iran will “take up” the case of the Indian nurse Nimisha Priya who has been given a death sentence in Yemen,” a highly placed Iranian official assured, in New Delhi, on Thursday (January ...

BEIRUT — An Iranian plane was flagged and searched at Lebanon’s international airport late on Thursday after local authorities reportedly received intelligence that it was carrying funds to the ...

US president reportedly held secret talks last month on what to do if Tehran moved closer to building a nuclear bomb Joe Biden reportedly discussed plans to strike Iran’s nuclear sites in the ...