Iran

A decade-long U.N. arms embargo on Iran that barred it from purchasing foreign weapons like tanks and fighter jets has expired

The Trump administration has blacklisted virtually all of Iran’s financial sector, dealing another blow to an economy that is already reeling under U.S. sanctions

Voters in November’s presidential election will choose how the United States deals with Iran and its nuclear capabilities, according to multiple government officials and experts across the Middle East. And as President Donald Trump’s administration is set to reimpose a “snapback” of sanctions on Iran on Saturday night, despite opposition from Europe, there are fresh concerns over regional stability. President Barack...

The Trump administration has declared that all U.N. sanctions against Iran have been restored, a move most of the rest of the world rejects as illegal

Iran’s state TV is reporting that the country’s authorities have executed a wrestler for allegedly murdering a man

The president of the U.N. Security Council has rejected the Trump administration’s demand to restore all U.N. sanctions on Iran

An Iranian official is quoted as saying that some data, including a portion of the cockpit conversations, have been retrieved from the Ukrainian jetliner downed by Iranian forces in January

The Trump administration ran into immediate opposition after its top diplomat officially informed the United Nations it is demanding the restoration of all U.N. sanctions on Iran

Iran’s state TV is reporting the country has unveiled two new missiles amid heightened tensions between Iran and the United States.

The United States is demanding that all United Nations sanctions be reimposed against Iran, a move that follows America’s embarrassing failure to extend an arms embargo against Tehran.

President Donald Trump announced at a press conference on Wednesday that he had instructed Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to notify the United Nations that the U.S. will attempt to reinstate sanctions on Iran through what’s called a “snapback procedure.”

Iran’s powerful Revolutionary Guard has vowed that there will be dangerous consequences for the United Arab Emirates after it announced a historic deal with Israel to open up full diplomatic relations

The U.N. Security Council has resoundingly defeated a U.S. resolution to indefinitely extend the U.N. arms embargo on Iran, with the Trump administration getting support from only the Dominican Republic

Israel’s agreement to establish diplomatic ties with the United Arab Emirates marks a watershed moment in its relations with Arab countries, but the Palestinians say it puts a just resolution of the Middle East conflict even further out of reach

The Iranian navy boarded and briefly seized a Liberian-flagged oil tanker near the strategic Strait of Hormuz amid heightened tensions between Tehran and the U.S., the American military said Thursday.

U.S. intelligence officials believe that Russia is using a variety of measures to denigrate Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden ahead of the November election and that individuals linked to the Kremlin are boosting President Donald Trump’s reelection bid

The Trump administration’s top envoy for Iran is stepping down just as the U.S. moves ahead with a major diplomatic effort aimed at extending a U.N. arms embargo against Tehran

Iranian officials have slammed the interception of an Iranian passenger plane by a U.S. fighter jet over Syria as “illegal,” threatening action against Washington over the incident

Iranian investigators are blaming a misaligned missile battery and miscommunication between soldiers and their commanders for the Revolutionary Guard shooting down a Ukrainian jetliner in January, killing 176 people.

U.S. federal prosecutors are seeking to seize four tankers they say are sailing toward Venezuela with 1.1 million barrels of gasoline supplied by Iran