Costs are piling up for businesses during the U.S. and Israel’s war against Iran — and many economists see a bleak outlook, with some bracing for a downturn in hiring and investment in the coming months.

Nobel Peace laureate Narges Mohammadi has been transferred to a Tehran hospital after collapsing in prison.

Iran’s grip on the Strait of Hormuz has jolted the world economy.

China’s diplomatic role in the Iran war has come into sharper focus after talks between Chinese and Iranian foreign ministers on Wednesday, days before U.S. President Donald Trump is expected to meet his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping.

Tehran's emergency service department says a fire in a shopping center near the Iranian capital has killed eight people and injured 40.

President Donald Trump says he is reviewing a new Iranian proposal to end the war but expressed skepticism it would be acceptable.

Iran's supreme leader says the Islamic Republic will protect its nuclear and missile capabilities as a national asset.

The Bank of England is keeping its main interest rate on hold at 3.75% as policymakers assess the economic impact of the Iran war and Tehran’s effective closure of the Strait of Hormuz, through which a fifth of the world’s crude passes.

Iran’s national rial currency has hit a record low of 1.8 to the dollar as a shaky ceasefire with the U.S. and Israel holds.

Iran has offered to end its control over the Strait of Hormuz if the U.S. lifts its blockade and ends the war.

The latest attempt at ceasefire talks between the U.S. and Iran appears to have failed.

Iran says it fully reopened the Strait of Hormuz to commercial vessels.

The House has rejected a resolution requiring President Donald Trump to withdraw U.S. forces from the war with Iran unless Congress authorizes military action.

With the ceasefire in Iran still shaky, U.S. and Iranian negotiators are heading to Pakistan for high-level talks with Iranian officials.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he has authorized direct negotiations with Lebanon aimed at disarming Iranian-backed Hezbollah militants and establishing relations between the neighbors.

A group of new accounts on the prediction market Polymarket made highly specific, well-timed bets on whether the U.S. and Iran would reach a ceasefire on April 7, resulting in hundreds of thousands of dollars in profits for those users.

A ceasefire deal between the United States and Iran appears to be in jeopardy.

An Ann Arbor resident is in Tehran as President Donald Trump escalates his rhetoric over the war with Iran, warning that “a whole civilization will die tonight” while also pushing for a ceasefire and the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz.

Tehran residents are rushing to stock up on bottled water and charge cellphones, flashlights and portable power banks as the hours tick down to Trump’s latest ultimatum for a deal in the war with Iran.

A couple living in Iran's capital have grown used to the sound of daily airstrikes five weeks into the war.

A black banner hangs over the border crossing and portraits of Iran’s slain Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei stare down, promising vengeance against the United States and Israel.

President Donald Trump has expanded his threat against Iran to include all power plants and bridges as his Tuesday ultimatum approaches.

U_S_ President Donald Trump has again warned Tehran over his Monday deadline to open the crucial Strait of Hormuz and allow ship traffic to flow again, and Iran has responded by threatening to open “the gates of hell.”.

One crew member has been recued after an American aircraft was shot down in Iran.

Iranian-backed Houthi rebels have entered the monthlong war in the Middle East and claimed they launched missiles toward Israel.

Pakistan’s foreign minister says Islamabad will soon host talks between the U.S. and Iran.

Iran has banned its sports teams from traveling to countries it considers “hostile,” Iranian state TV reported ahead of Tractor FC’s scheduled soccer game in Saudi Arabia.

President Donald Trump says he has “demanded” that about seven countries heavily reliant on Middle East oil join a coalition to police the Strait of Hormuz.

Pushing back on U.S. President Donald Trump’s comments, Iran’s national soccer team says “no one can exclude” it from playing in the men’s World Cup in the United States.

U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran have damaged at least four cultural and historical sites across Iran.

The United States and Iran have offered sharply different accounts of the sinking of an Iranian warship in the Indian Ocean.

Oil prices have jumped past $114 a barrel as the Iran war disrupts oil production and shipping in the Middle East.

Mojtaba Khamenei, a son of Iran’s late supreme leader, has been named his successor.

Israel is renewing its assault on southern Lebanon, including targeting commanders of the Lebanese branch of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards’ Quds Force in Beirut.

U.S. President Donald Trump warned in a Truth Social post that more Iranian officials will be targets, saying, “Today Iran will be hit very hard.

Iranian drone strikes damaged three Amazon Web Services sites in the Middle East, exposing how vulnerable cloud data centers are in conflict.

U.S. President Donald Trump says “someone from within” Iran’s government might be best suited to take power once the U.S.-Israeli war on the country ends.

Iran’s leaders are scrambling to replace Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who ruled the country for 37 years before he was killed in the surprise U.S. and Israeli bombardment.

The war in the Middle East spiraled further as Israel and the U.S. pounded Iran.

Some of the jubilation was open and even raucous.

The president of Iran’s soccer federation says he does not know if the national team can play World Cup matches in the United States following the surprise U.S. and Israeli bombardment of his country.

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Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who assembled theocratic power in Iran over the decades as its supreme leader and sought to turn it into a regional powerhouse, has been killed in U.S. and Israeli strikes.

Michigan lawmakers are weighing in after the United States and Israel launched strikes against Iran on Saturday.

Iranian state media have confirmed the death of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in a major attack by Israel and the United States.

Iranians face a sudden surge in prices for food and daily essentials, and many families say they cannot keep up.

The CIA is offering help to potential informants in Iran as President Donald Trump mulls possible military action.

Many Iranians are worried as the United States assembles its greatest military firepower in decades in the Middle East and the next round of talks in Geneva get closer.

Students have held anti-government protests at universities across Iran’s capital, according to witnesses and videos circulating online.

The United States has ordered nonessential diplomats to leave Lebanon as tensions over Iran rise with the threat of a potentially imminent military strike.

President Donald Trump has warned that limited strikes against Iran are possible even as the country’s top diplomat says Tehran expects to have a proposed deal ready in the next few days following nuclear talks with the U.S. Trump's remarks Friday came a few hours after Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Aragchi said on MSNOW’s “Morning Joe” show that his country was planning to finalize a draft deal in “the next two to three days” to then send to Washington.

Israeli producer Dana Eden, best known for co-creating the Emmy-winning drama “Tehran,” has died suddenly in Greece.

The Swiss Foreign Ministry says Iran and the United States will hold a second round of talks over Tehran’s nuclear program this week.

A month after Iran launched a crackdown on nationwide protests, widespread arrests are roiling the country.

President Donald Trump says a change in power in Iran “would be the best thing that could happen” as the U.S. administration weighs whether to take military action against Tehran.

Iran marks the 47th anniversary of its 1979 Islamic Revolution as leaders face pressure from the U.S. and anger at home.

President Donald Trump met privately with Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday and says he pushed Israel to back continued U.S. talks with Iran on a nuclear deal.

Iranian security forces have launched a campaign to arrest figures within the country's reformist movement.

Iran has sentenced Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi to over seven more years in prison.

Iran’s supreme leader has warned that any U.S. attack would trigger a “regional war” in the Mideast.

The Trump administration has imposed sanctions against Iran’s interior minister, accusing Eskandar Momeni of repressing nationwide protests that have challenged Tehran’s theocratic government.

Authorities in Iran have unveiled a new mural in a central Tehran square with a direct warning to the United States to not attempt a military strike on the country.

The scale of nationwide protests in Iran and the bloody crackdown that has followed is slowly coming into focus, even though authorities have cut off the country from the internet.

Iran has warned Donald Trump not to take any action against the country’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, days after the U.S. president called for an end to Khamenei’s near 40-year reign.

Iranians have been struggling with a near-total internet blackout for nearly two weeks.

In the wake of spiraling tensions between the United States and Iran over Tehran’s violent crackdown of protests, analysts warn that internal upheaval or a potential collapse of the Iranian government could carry nuclear risks.

A U.S.-based activist agency reports at least 3,919 deaths during recent protests in Iran.

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has criticized U.S. President Donald Trump for supporting Iranian protesters.

The family of a 23-year-old Iranian college student believes she was killed by a bullet fired by Iranian security forces.

A Iran returns to an uneasy calm after protests led to a violent crackdown, a senior cleric is calling for the death penalty for detained demonstrators.

The U.S. is imposing new sanctions on Iranian officials accused of repressing protests against Iran’s theocratic government.

President Donald Trump says he’s been told “on good authority” that plans for executions in Iran have stopped, even as Tehran has signaled fast trials and executions ahead in its crackdown on protesters.

Iranian officials signaled that fast trials and executions lay ahead for suspects detained in nationwide protests, while the Islamic Republic promised retaliation if the U.S. or Israel intervened in the domestic unrest.

Activists say the death toll from the protests in Iran has surpassed 2,500 people.

U.S. President Donald Trump says Iran wants to negotiate with the U.S. after his threat to strike the country over its crackdown on protesters.

President Donald Trump says Iran reached out to the U.S. and proposed negotiations after he threatened action in response to a crackdown on protesters in the Middle Eastern country.

Protests in Iran have continued despite threats from the government to crack down.

As Iran is gripped by new protests, many people there are focused on the U.S. raid in Venezuela and wonder whether the same could occur in Tehran.

Protesters angry over Iran's ailing economy have conducted a sit-in at Tehran's Grand Bazaar.

Iran’s supreme leader has addressed the ongoing protests, insisting that “rioters must be put in their place.”.

Demonstrations sparked by Iran's struggling economy have spread into rural provinces, with at least seven people killed.

Iran is seeing its biggest protests in three years after the currency plunged to a record low against the dollar.

The family of Iranian Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi says she was taken to a hospital emergency room twice after her arrest last week by Iranian security forces.

Iran’s rial has hit a new record low of over 1.3 million to the U.S. dollar, deepening its collapse amid sanctions and regional tensions.

Iran has introduced a new pricing tier for its subsidized gasoline, marking the first price adjustment since 2019.

Rain has finally fallen in Iran's capital after months of drought.

Iranian officials say a second flight carrying deported Iranians has left the United States.

Iran's rial currency has fallen to a new low of 1.2 million to the U.S. dollar as nuclear sanctions squeeze the economy.

Iran has released a Marshall Islands-flagged tanker and its 21 crew members, days after seizing the ship without explanation.

Iran seized a Marshall Islands-flagged oil tanker as it traveled through the narrow Strait of Hormuz on Friday.

Israeli and U.S. officials say Mexican authorities with assistance from the United States and Israeli intelligence agencies thwarted what they say was a plot by Iran to assassinate the Israeli ambassador to Mexico.

Iranians have celebrated the anniversary of the 1979 takeover of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran.

Two French nationals detained in Iran for more than three years have reached the limit of what they can endure, according to relatives.

The U.S. imposes new sanctions on firms and individuals linked to Iran's missile and military aircraft production.

Iran said 120 Iranians detained in the United States for illegally entering the country will be returned to Iran in the coming days.

Iran has executed a man accused of spying for Israel, the latest a major wave of executions.

Iran faces renewed UN sanctions over its nuclear program, escalating tensions with the West.

The United Nations has reimposed sanctions on Iran over its nuclear program.

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian took the stage at the U_N_ to blast Israeli and U_S_ attacks in June as inflicting “a grievous blow upon international trust and the very prospect of peace in the region.”.