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Iran has slammed Washington's decision to sanction Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif as part of an escalating campaign of pressure against Tehran, calling the move "childish" and "unwise."
Iran's government has approved a plan to slash four zeros from the national currency, the rial, as the country tries to cope with high inflation.
Former Tehran Mayor Mohammad Ali Najafi has been sentenced to death after being convicted of murdering his second wife earlier this year.
U.S. President Donald Trump has vehemently denied claims from Tehran that Iranian security agencies have arrested 17 suspects and sentenced some of them to death after dismantling a CIA spy ring.
President Donald Trump has called Iran's downing of a U.S. military drone a "very big mistake," fueling fears that simmering tensions between the two countries may boil over into a military conflict.
A wife of reformist former Tehran Mayor Mohammad Ali Najafi has been killed, Iranian media reports say.
Acid attack survivors in Iran have welcomed new legislation that imposes stiffer sentences on their assailants. But activists say authorities in the Islamic republic still need to go further to prevent women from being targeted with acid attacks.
The brother of Iranian President Hassan Rohani's brother has been sentenced to prison by a court following his trial on charges of corruption.
Iranian police have detained dozens of labor activists and at least two journalists as they violently dispersed a May Day demonstration in central Tehran, reports say.
Saudi Arabia says its coast guard has rescued a distressed Iranian oil tanker off the Red Sea port of Jiddah, raising concerns that the ship's cargo could be leaking.
Jailed Iranian human rights defender Narges Mohammadi is in urgent need of surgery, her attorney said on April 28.
The Iranian army's chief of staff says Tehran could close the vital Strait of Hormuz if "hostilities reach a level where this cannot be avoided."
The streets of Ashgabat, the capital of Turkmenistan, were flooded after severe rains that began on April 13. Weeks of heavy downpours have taken a toll on the region, causing deaths and extensive damage from flooding in Iran and Afghanistan.
Floods caused by heavy rain across Iran have killed 76 people and caused more than $2.2 billion in damage over the past several weeks, officials say.
An Iranian woman who inspired antihijab protests by removing her obligatory Islamic head scarf in a public gesture of defiance says has been sentenced to one year in prison but pardoned by the supreme leader, her lawyer says.
Iranian authorities have ordered the evacuation of more towns and villages threatened by floods in the country's southwest.
Iranian officials have responded angrily to U.S. media reports that the United States will soon designate Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) as a foreign terrorist organization.
Iranians affected by the county's worst floods in a decade have been staging angry demonstrations against what they say is an inadequate relief response by the government.
Heavy flooding in western and southwestern Iran that has killed dozens and forced thousands from their homes in recent weeks has resulted in strong criticism of the government's relief response to the crisis.
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