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Iranian President Hassan Rouhani. (Photo- AP)

US sanctions not hampered Iran's fight against coronavirus: Rouhani

Friction between Tehran and Washington has increased since 2018 when President Donald Trump pulled the US out of Tehran’s 2015 nuclear deal

01 Apr 2020 1:29 PM

A man looks out of a window at the H10 Costa Adeje Palace hotel in La Caleta, on the Canary Island of Tenerife, Spain, Wednesday, February 26, 2020. Spanish officials say the tourist hotel has been placed in quarantine after an Italian doctor staying there tested positive for the COVID-19 virus and Spanish news media says some 1,000 tourists staying at the complex are not allowed to leave. (AP)

Global coronavirus summary this morning

More cases crop up worldwide, Saudi Arabia cancels Haj, Japan shuts schools, border checks tightened

28 Feb 2020 6:48 AM

The popular hasthtags included #WWIII, #WorldWar3 and #WorldWarThreeDraft were trending on Twitter which garnered hundreds of thousands of mentions. (Photo: AFP)

World War III trends on Twitter and gathers steam

There have been memes and commentary on social media platforms with the possibility of a war that could affect the entire globe.

06 Jan 2020 9:16 AM

Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, right, meets family of Iranian Revolutionary Guard Gen. Qassem Soleimani, who was killed in the U.S. airstrike in Iraq, at his home in Tehran, Iran, Friday, Jan. 3, 2020. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP)

Iranian cyberattacks feared in US after killing of top general

Iran’s state-backed hackers are already among the world’s most aggressive & could inject malware that triggers major disruptions in the US.

04 Jan 2020 1:27 PM

Tehran and Delhi have agreed to accelerate the development of an important Iranian port, Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar said during a visit to the sanctions-hit Islamic republic on Monday. (Photo: Twitter)

India, Iran agree to speed up of Chabahar port project

Chabahar port -- being jointly developed by India, Iran and Afghanistan -- is on Indian Ocean about 100 kilometres west of Pakistan border.

27 Dec 2019 9:23 AM

The group included the top echelons of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, an elite branch of the Iranian military whose portfolio includes missile development and covert operations. (Representational Image)

Time to take out our swords: Inside Iran's plot to attack Saudi Arabia

Hard-liners in the meeting talked of attacking high-value targets, including American military bases.

26 Nov 2019 2:15 PM

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused Iran of planning attacks against the Jewish state and said everything possible would be done to prevent them. (Photo: File)

Iran planning attacks on Israel: Benjamin Netanyahu

Speaking on Israeli-annexed Golan Heights, Netanyahu said: 'we are taking necessary actions to prevent Iran from entrenching in our region.'

25 Nov 2019 9:20 AM

"Iran has become so unstable that the regime has shut down their entire Internet System so that the Great Iranian people cannot talk about the tremendous violence taking place within the country," Trump tweeted. (Photo: FIle)

Trump says Iran internet shutdown trying to hide ''death and tragedy'

Iran wants zero transparency, thinking the world will not find out the death and tragedy that the Iranian Regime is causing, Trump said.

22 Nov 2019 12:28 PM

The study said Iran considered missiles to be a strategic necessity due to the limitations of its air force, which still has some US planes ordered by the pro-Western shah, who was toppled in 1979. (Representational Image)

Pentagon says Iran developed largest missile force in Middle East despite sanctions

A US intelligence official said on condition of anonymity that the assessment included Israel.

20 Nov 2019 2:00 PM

Sources say the IAEA took samples from the site in the Turquzabad district of Tehran in the spring and that Iran has been slow in providing answers to explain the test results.(Representational Image)

'Uranium particles' detected at undeclared site in Iran: UN's nuclear watchdog

Report from the watchdog says it detected natural uranium particles of anthropogenic origin at a location in Iran not declared to agency.

12 Nov 2019 9:04 AM

Saudi state oil giant Aramco will sell 0.5 per cent of its shares to individual retail investors and the government will have a lockup period of a year on further share sales after the initial public offering, its prospectus said on Saturday. (Photo: File)

'Risk of terrorist attacks...': Saudi Aramco prospectus flags risks, gives few details on IPO size

Sources have said the company could sell 1 per cent-2 per cent on the Saudi stock market in what could be the world's largest listing.

10 Nov 2019 12:27 PM

The spokesman also said that the reports that the hacker used Iranian infrastructure was an attempt to “drive a wedge” between Russia and Iran. (Representational image)

Russia dismisses hacking reports as 'unsavoury'

Moscow and Tehran have both repeatedly denied Western allegations over hacking.

25 Oct 2019 12:22 PM

The strike appears more limited than other such operations against Iran this year after the downing of an American drone in June and an alleged attack by Iran's Revolutionary Guards on oil tankers in the Gulf in May. (Photo: File)

US carried out secret cyber strike on Iran after Saudi oil attack: report

The Pentagon declined to comment about the cyber strike.

16 Oct 2019 12:17 PM

The tanker, owned by National Iranian Oil Company, had suffered heavy damage and was leaking oil into the Red Sea some 60 miles from Jeddah, unnamed sources told Iran's Students News Agency ISNA. (Representational Image)

Iran govt says oil tanker struck by two rockets off Saudi Arabia

'Experts believe it was a terrorist attack,' a source told ISNA.

11 Oct 2019 11:55 AM

An Australian travel-blogging couple who were detained in Iran on spying charges have been released and returned home, Australian Foreign Minister Marise Payne said Saturday. (Photo: AP)

Australian couple charged with spying in Iran released

She was pregnant when she was arrested in 2017 in Australia where she was a legal resident.

05 Oct 2019 1:07 PM

External affairs minister S Jaishankar. (Photo: File)

Iran not disappointed: S Jaishankar rejects reports, expresses depth of ties

The US re-imposed sanctions on Iran last November, after Donald Trump pulled out of the landmark 2015 Iran nuclear deal.

02 Oct 2019 9:22 PM

‘Iran sees what the Yemenis have done as defensive measures taken by the legitimate Yemeni government,’ Iranian Foreign Ministry's spokesman, Abbas Mousavi, said at a briefing. (Photo: screengrab)

Attack on Saudi oil facilities carried out by Yemen's govt as defensive measures: Iran

A total of 18 drones and seven missiles were launched, including what he called Iranian Delta Wing unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs).

30 Sep 2019 2:36 PM

Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. (Photo: Twitter)

Iran releases photo of Khamenei with Hezbollah chief

Before a 2006 war between Israel and Lebanon, Nasrallah often openly visited the Iranian capital.

29 Sep 2019 8:53 AM

Iran's tanker was released on August 19 after Gibraltar reportedly received assurances that the cargo would not be delivered to Syria. (Photo: ANI)

UK-flagged ship Stena Impero held by Iran starts moving from port

It was seized by Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps in Strait of Hormuz on July 19 over an alleged violation of maritime rules.

27 Sep 2019 2:10 PM

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman hosted Iraq's Prime Minister Adel Abdel Mahdi for talks on Wednesday focused on attacks on the kingdom's oil infrastructure, which Washington has blamed on Iran. (Photo: File)

Saudi Crown Prince hosts Iraq PM for talks on oil attacks

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has also said there was no evidence the attacks were launched from Iraq.

26 Sep 2019 2:33 PM

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