DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Tehran confirmed Monday that an Italian journalist has been arrested on charges of violating the laws of the Islamic Republic of Iran, state media reported.

From Gaza to Beirut, Damascus to Tehran, it's been a rough year for Iran and its allies and proxy forces across the Middle East. Israel's wars against Hamas and Hezbollah have severely degraded ...

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 ...

An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link On July 3, 1988, Iran Air Flight 655 took from Bandar Abbas Airport in Iran. There was nothing extraordinary about the morning trip.

Iran confirmed on Monday that it had arrested Italian journalist Cecilia Sala for "violating the law", state media reported, a move that has been decried by Italy as "unacceptable". "Cecilia Sala ...

TEHRAN, Iran — A suicide bomber killed a local police officer and wounded another in a southern Iranian port city, home to a large Sunni Muslim community, local media said Sunday. The hard-line ...

The United States has announced a new round of sanctions targeting Russia and Iran, citing alleged efforts to interfere in its 2024 elections. In a statement on Tuesday, the US Department of the ...

After more than two years, the Iranian regime has lifted the ban on WhatsApp and also unblocked Google's Play Store. This was reported by the AP news agency, citing the Islamic Republic's state ...

Author and scholar Reza Aslan was a child in Iran when President Jimmy Carter made history with his 1977 visit with aims to move the country “towards a pro-democratic alignment.” ...

Parastoo Ahmady was detained on Saturday in the city of Sari, in Mazandaran province, around 280 km from Iran's capital Tehran, according to her lawyer Milad Panahipour. Her arrest followed a case ...

The swift collapse of Bashar al-Assad’s Syrian regime represents a devastating defeat for Iran, the latest in a string of setbacks that have punctured long held assumptions in the West about ...

A woman was arrested in Iran after she posted a video of herself singing without a hijab on YouTube, even though the Iranian parliament passed a new, stricter law on women's modesty that rights ...