Iran yesterday condemned an “insulting” poster on a bus in a French city depicting Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, state media reported. The city of Beziers in southern France had run a ...

Iran is changing its capital city to Makran, in the southern coastal region, from Tehran in the north for economic and ecological reasons, according to Persian-language satellite TV station Iran ...

Iran Is Changing Its Capital City—Here's Why Posted: January 8, 2025 | Last updated: January 8, 2025 Iran is changing its capital city to Makran, in the southern coastal region, from Tehran in ...

Iran faces a tough year of confrontation with the incoming Trump administration while holding an exceptionally weak hand after 2024 left it with an acute economic crisis at home and setbacks in ...

An Iranian missile system is displayed next to a banner with a picture of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, during Iranian defence week, in a street in Tehran, Iran, September 24 ...

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 ...

Italian journalist Cecilia Sala has been detained in Iran since Dec. 19 on charges of breaching Islamic law, her plight sparking outrage and a flurry of diplomatic activity involving Rome ...

The Islamic Republic of Iran executed over 1,000 prisoners in 86 prisons across the country in 2024, according to a report by the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI). The report says the ...

Italy has summoned Iran’s ambassador to demand the immediate release of an Italian journalist who was detained in Tehran in December, as the government and opposition ramp up public pressure on ...

The popular impression for the four decades since his presidency is that Jimmy Carter, who died this week, is responsible for somehow “losing” Iran. His passivity, it has often been argued ...

US president reportedly held secret talks last month on what to do if Tehran moved closer to building a nuclear bomb Joe Biden reportedly discussed plans to strike Iran’s nuclear sites in the ...