News in brief
The announcement by U.S. President Donald Trump that he would “permanently suspend immigration from third-world countries” has sparked intense debate both inside and outside the United States. The statement, delivered after the November 26 armed attack near the White House that left a National......
Iran’s Revolutionary Guards announced on Sunday that they had seized a foreign-flagged vessel accused of transporting 350,000 liters of smuggled fuel, according to state media. The ship, sailing under the flag of Eswatini, was intercepted and escorted to the port of Bushehr, in southwestern Iran. State......
Nearly a quarter century after it was first proposed, the last major stretch of the International North–South Transport Corridor (INSTC) is finally approaching construction. The Rasht–Astara railway in northern Iran—scheduled to break ground in early 2026—has become more than......
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi is scheduled to visit Paris on November 26 for high-level discussions with France’s Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot, the French Foreign Ministry announced on Monday. The meeting will address a wide range of bilateral and regional......
Iran’s intelligence chief has issued a stark warning about what he describes as potential attempts by foreign adversaries—including Israel and the United States—to target the country’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. The comments, reported by local media, highlight rising......
The United States and Europe’s leading powers — France, the United Kingdom, and Germany — have submitted a draft resolution to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), urging Iran to immediately provide detailed information about its nuclear activities and allow inspectors access......
Tehran (AFP) — Iran’s judiciary announced on Tuesday that a man convicted of murdering a doctor in the country’s southwest has been executed in public. According to the judiciary’s official news outlet, Mizan Online, the sentence was carried out in the city of Yasuj, the capital......
Iran firmly denied on Monday the accusations made by the United States, which claimed that Tehran had planned to assassinate Israel’s ambassador in Mexico. Iranian officials described the allegations as “ridiculous and baseless,” insisting they were part of a political campaign aimed......
An alleged plot by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) to assassinate Israel’s ambassador to Mexico, Einat Kranz Neiger, has been thwarted, according to a US official who spoke on condition of anonymity on Friday. The official stated that the assassination......
Cécile Kohler and Jacques Paris, the two French nationals released from prison in Iran on Tuesday and now staying at the French embassy in Tehran, said they would not have endured their long detention without the strong support they received in France, according to the French ambassador. “They......
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei declared on Monday that cooperation between Tehran and Washington would remain impossible as long as the United States continues to support Israel, maintain military bases, and interfere in regional affairs. “The......
Iran has issued an indictment regarding the container ship MSC Aries, seized last year by the Revolutionary Guards in the Strait of Hormuz, a judiciary spokesman, Asghar Jahangir, announced on Tuesday. Prosecutors completed their investigation and sent the case to trial, charging the Israeli-born owner......
One of Iran’s largest private banks, Ayandeh Bank, has been officially declared bankrupt by the Iranian authorities, according to state media on Saturday. Founded in 2012, the institution—whose name means “future” in Persian—operated more than 270 branches across the country......
