US, G-7 allies warn Iran to back off deal to provide Russia ballistic missiles or face new sanctions
The United States and allies are warning Iran that major Western economies will pile new sanctions on Tehran if it moves forward with an emerging plan to provide ballistic missiles to Russia for its war with Ukraine.
Iran is responsible for the 'physical violence' that killed Mahsa Amini in 2022, UN probe finds
A U.N. fact-finding mission says Iran is responsible for the โphysical violenceโ that led to the death of Mahsa Amini in 2022 and sparked nationwide protests against the countryโs mandatory headscarf laws and its ruling theocracy.
Captain of ship carrying Iranian-made missile components to remain behind bars pending trial
A Pakistani national who U.S. officials say was the captain of a ship carrying Iranian-made missile components to Houthi rebels in Yemen has been ordered to remain behind bars while he awaits trial on charges of attempting to smuggle a warhead and other weapons and lying to U.S. Coast Guard officers as they boarded the boat U.S. Central Command Navy forces, including Navy SEALs, boarded the vessel in the Arabian Sea the night of Jan. 11.
Iran starts first election campaign since the 2022 mass protests over Mahsa Amini's death in custody
Candidates for Iranโs parliament have started campaigning in the countryโs first election since the 2022 crackdown on nationwide protests that followed the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini in police custody after she was detained for allegedly violating the strict headscarf law.
U.S. sanctions Iran Central Bank subsidiary for U.S. tech procurement and violating export rules
The U.S. has imposed sanctions on three people and four firms โ across Iran, the United Arab Emirates and Turkey โ for allegedly helping to export goods and technology purchased from U.S. companies to Iran and the nationโs central bank.
Meta removes Instagram and Facebook accounts for Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei
Meta has removed Instagram and Facebook accounts run on behalf of Iranโs Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei after criticism over his support for Hamas after its Oct. 7 attack on Israel that sparked the monthslong war still raging in the Gaza Strip.
US drone strike in Baghdad kills high-ranking militia leader linked to attacks on American troops
The U.S. military says a U.S. drone strike blew up a car in the Iraqi capital Wednesday night, killing a high-ranking commander of the powerful Kataib Hezbollah militia who is responsible for โdirectly planning and participating in attacksโ on American troops in the region.
US blames group of Iran-backed militias for deadly drone attack in Jordan as it weighs reprisals
The United States has attributed the drone attack that killed three U.S. service members in Jordan to the Islamic Resistance in Iraq, an umbrella group of Iran-backed militias that includes the militant group Kataib Hezbollah.
Iranian man and 2 Canadians are charged in a murder-for-hire plot on US soil
An Iranian man who federal prosecutors say operates a criminal network that targets dissidents and activists abroad has been charged alongside a pair of Canadians with plotting to kill two people who had fled to the United States.
US warned Iran that ISIS-K was preparing attack ahead of deadly Kerman blasts, a US official says
The U.S. government privately warned Iran that the Islamic State groupโs affiliate in Afghanistan was preparing to carry out a terrorist attack before bombings in Kerman earlier this month killed 95 people.
US hits Iraq militia sites and anti-ship missiles in Yemen as fight with Iranian proxies intensifies
The U.S. military has hit three facilities in Iraq and two anti-ship missiles in Yemen within hours of each other in its continued effort to keep violence from the Israel-Hamas war from spilling over into a wider conflict.
Pakistani retaliatory strikes in Iran kill at least 9, raising tensions along border
Pakistan launches airstrikes against alleged militant hideouts inside Iran, killing at least nine people as it retaliates for a similar attack by Iran two days earlier and raises tensions between the neighbors at a time of escalating conflict in the region.
Iran attacks alleged militant bases in Pakistan; Islamabad says 'unprovoked' strikes kill 2 children
Iran has launched attacks in Pakistan targeting what it described as bases for the Sunni militant group Jaish al-Adl, potentially further raising tensions in a Middle East already roiled by Israelโs war on Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
Who are the Houthis and why did the US and UK retaliate for their attacks on ships in the Red Sea?
When the U.S. and U.K. warships launched waves of air, ship and submarine-launched missiles at Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen late Thursday it was the culmination of weeks of warnings to the rebel group to cease their destructive attacks on commercial vessels in the Red Sea.
Russia has used North Korean ballistic missiles in Ukraine and is seeking Iranian missiles, US says
The White House says U.S. intelligence officials have determined that Russia has acquired ballistic missiles from North Korea and is seeking close-range ballistic missiles from Iran as Moscow struggles to replenish arms for its war with Ukraine.
US sanctions money network tied to the Yemen Houthi rebels blamed for shipping vessel attacks
The U.S. is imposing sanctions on a group of money exchange services from Yemen to Turkey alleged to be providing funds to Iranian-backed Houthi rebels who have been launching attacks on commercial shipping vessels in the southern Red Sea.
Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi goes on a hunger strike while imprisoned in Iran
A campaign urging Iran to free Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi says the activist has begun a hunger strike over the conditions of her imprisonment and the countryโs requirement that women wear headscarves.
40 years after bombing that killed Americans in Beirut, US troops again deploy east of Mediterranean
Forty years after the bombing that killed 241 U.S. troops in Beirut, the United States is again sending troops to the eastern Mediterranean as tension between Israel and Iran increases over the Israel-Hamas war.
Mahsa Amini, the Kurdish-Iranian woman who died in police custody, is awarded EU human rights prize
Mahsa Amini, the 22-year-old Kurdish-Iranian woman who died in police custody in Iran last year, sparking worldwide protests against the countryโs conservative Islamic theocracy, has been awarded the European Unionโs top human rights prize.
Hamas attack on Israel thrusts Biden into Mideast crisis and has him fending off GOP criticism
President Joe Biden has been thrust into a Middle East crisis that risks expanding into a broader conflict and has left him fending off criticism from GOP presidential rivals that his administrationโs policies led to this moment.
Iran unlawfully detaining human rights activists, including new Nobel peace laureate, UN expert says
A U.N. independent investigator says Iranian authorities are cracking down on protesters, unlawfully detaining human rights activists, including new Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi, and carrying out an โalarmingโ number of executions.
Mysterious injury of 16-year-old Iranian girl not wearing a headscarf in Tehran's Metro sparks anger
A mysterious injury suffered by a 16-year-old girl not wearing a headscarf while boarding a Metro train in Iranโs capital has reignited anger just after the one-year anniversary of the death of Mahsa Amini and the nationwide protests it sparked.
US quietly acknowledges Iran satellite successfully reached orbit as tensions remain high
The United States has quietly acknowledged that Iranโs paramilitary Revolutionary Guard successfully put an imaging satellite into orbit this week in a launch that resembled others previously criticized by Washington as helping Tehranโs ballistic missile program.
Iran's president says US should ease sanctions to demonstrate it wants to return to nuclear deal
Iranโs President Ebrahim Raisi says that relations with the United States can move forward if the Biden administration demonstrates it wants to return to the 2015 nuclear deal, and a first step should be easing sanctions.