H.E. Amb. Yousef Esmaeil Zadeh of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the Philippines delivers his welcome message. H.E. Ambassador Yousef Esmael-Zadeh of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the Philippines led the celebration of the National Day of the Islamic Republic of Iran on Feb. 8, 2024, at...
PARIS, France -- French President Emmanuel Macron denounced on Thursday the "headlong rush" of Iran's nuclear programme after talks with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who was in Paris to seek a stronger European stance against Tehran. Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L) and...
TEHRAN, Iran - A gunman stormed Azerbaijan's embassy in Tehran on Friday, killing the mission's head of security in an attack Iran said was motivated by personal reasons but Baku labelled an act of "terrorism". Azerbaijan's foreign ministry said "responsibility" for the shooting, which also wounded...
TEHRAN, Iran - An Iranian man has been jailed for more than eight years after decapitating his wife and displaying her head in public, in a case that shocked the country, the judiciary said Wednesday. Mona Heidari, 17, was killed in February 2022 by her husband and brother-in-law in Ahvaz, capital...
TEHRAN, Iran - A son of former Iranian president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani has been freed after serving more than seven years of a 10-year jail sentence for fraud, Iranian media reported Wednesday. Mehdi Hashemi, 53, left Tehran's Evin prison late Tuesday, his lawyer Vahid Abolmaali said, quoted by...
PARIS, France -- Iran said Saturday it executed British-Iranian dual national Alireza Akbari after he was sentenced to death for spying for the United Kingdom, drawing sharp condemnation from the British government. Akbari, 61, was hanged after being convicted of "corruption on earth and harming...
TEHRAN, Iran - An explosion suspected to have been caused by a gas leak at a building in northwestern Iran killed six members of the same family, state media said Friday. The blast hit a residential building in Bukan, a Kurdish-majority city in Iran's northwestern province of West Azerbaijan, on...
PARIS, France -- Iran drew international condemnation on Saturday as it executed two men for killing a paramilitary force member in November during unprecedented protests sparked by Mahsa Amini's death in custody. The latest hangings double the number of executions to four over the nationwide...
PARIS, France -- Iran's protest crackdown has helped push the number of journalists imprisoned worldwide to a record high of 533 in 2022, according to a report by Reporters Without Borders (RSF) published Wednesday. The figure is up from 488 in 2021, already a record, according to the France-based...
PARIS, France -- Iran on Monday executed a second man convicted in connection with protests that have shaken the regime for almost three months, defying an international outcry over its use of capital punishment against those involved in the movement. Majidreza Rahnavard had been sentenced to death...
As Christmas holidays inch closer, Filipino consumers will receive new round of gifts at the pumps next week with petroleum prices anticipated to have heftier rollback by Tuesday, Nov. 29, according to oil companies. Calculation by industry players showed diesel products will have bigger price cut...
VIENNA, Austria -- Negotiators kicked off a fresh round of talks over Iran's nuclear programme in Vienna on Thursday, seeking to salvage the agreement on Tehran's atomic ambitions. Outside view taken on August 4, 2022 shows the Hotel Palais Coburg in Vienna, the venue where the meeting of the Joint...
