Iranian couple sues top officials over jet downing
An Iranian couple has filed a rare lawsuit against three senior officials over the death of their children in the 2020 downing of a Ukrainian passenger plane, a newspaper reported…
Iran, unlike West, upbeat about nuclear talks, say experts
TEHRAN: Iran believes it has scored points in the Vienna talks meant to revive its tattered 2015 nuclear deal by managing to include sanctions relief in discussion documents for the…
Iran-backed hackers accused of targeting critical US sectors
WASHINGTON: Hackers linked to the Iranian government have been targeting a “broad range of victims” inside the United States, including by deploying ransomware, according to an advisory issued Wednesday by…
Iran says IAEA’s Grossi to visit Tehran ‘probably soon’
United Nations nuclear watchdog chief Rafael Grossi will visit Iran “probably soon,” the Iranian foreign ministry spokesman said on Monday, as Tehran and world powers are set to resume talks…
Iranian ex-official’s warcrimes trial moves to Albania
The trial in Sweden of a former Iranian prison official, accused of handing out death sentences as part of a 1988 purge of dissidents, will relocate to Albania on Wednesday…
Iran wants US assurances it will never abandon nuclear deal if revived
Iran said on Monday that the United States should provide guarantees that it will not abandon again Tehran’s 2015 nuclear deal with world powers, if talks to revive the agreement…
UK gave Iranian leader’s office over £100,000 in COVID-19 grants
The personal representative office of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei was given over £100,000 ($136,000) in grants as part of Britain’s COVID-19 job-retention scheme, company accounts show. The UK’s registry…
Iran’s Raisi warns West against ‘excessive’ nuclear demands
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi warned Western governments Thursday he would accept no “excessive demands” in nuclear talks set to resume later this month after a five-month gap. Diplomats on Wednesday…
Iran seized Vietnamese oil tanker: US officials
Iran seized a Vietnamese-flagged oil tanker in the Gulf of Oman last month and still holds the vessel off Bandar Abbas, two US officials told The Associated Press on Wednesday.…
IAEA chief: Iran inspections like flying in heavy clouds
The head of the UN atomic watchdog has compared his agency’s efforts to monitor Iran’s nuclear program to flying through dense clouds, warning that the situation can’t continue for much…