U.S. President Barack Obama extended for one year the sanctions the United States has imposed on Iran for violations of human rights and support of terrorist organizations.
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's nominee for defense secretary, James Mattis, said he would not tear up the Iran nuclear deal.
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's nominee for secretary of state says he supports a "full review" of the nuclear deal between Iran and world powers, which the incoming president has previously pledged to renegotiate or scrap altogether.
The head of IranAir has taken delivery in France of the first Western airliner under an international sanctions deal.
Officials in the southern Iranian city of Shiraz have pledged to look into suggestions of a link between public health risks and the jamming of communications in the area.
The Turkmen government has been proudly proclaiming its UN-recognized status as a neutral country for more than 20 years now. Ashgabat's policy of "positive neutrality" is, since September 2016, even part of the country's constitution. But the policy is not always positive for Turkmenistan, and the current gas spat with neighbor Iran might be a case in point. (The views expressed in this blog post do not necessarily reflect the views of RFE/RL.)
Ayatollah Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, who served as president from 1989 to 1997, may have taken the answers to some of the Islamic republic's biggest mysteries to his grave.
Hundreds of thousands of Iranians massed in Tehran for the funeral of former President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani.
Hundreds of thousands of Iranians jammed central Tehran for the funeral of former President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani.
World oil prices have plummeted over concerns that a deal to curb production reached between OPEC, Russia, and other producers will not hold for much longer.
Five global powers that are permanent members of the United Nations Security Council will meet on January to review Iranian complaints that the United States has reneged on the sanctions relief promised under the Iran nuclear deal.
U.S. media are reporting that the Obama administration and other global powers have approved a large shipment of natural uranium from Russia to Iran in an exchange authorized by the Iran nuclear deal.
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