Iran

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

U.S.-based analysts have told The Associated Press that they believe a fire at an Iran nuclear site struck a new centrifuge production facility

Iran has sentenced to death a journalist whose online work helped inspire the 2017 economic protests and who returned from exile to Tehran

Iran has issued an arrest warrant and asked Interpol for help in detaining President Donald Trump and dozens of others it believes carried out the U.S. drone strike that killed a top Iranian general in Baghdad early this year

U.S. Ambassador Kelly Craft says she has shared a draft U.N. Security Council resolution with Russia that would extend the arms embargo against Iran indefinitely

The United Nations’ atomic watchdog agency says Iran has continued to increase its stockpiles of enriched uranium and remains in violation of its deal with world powers

A U.S. Navy veteran whose family says his only crime was falling in love has left Iran after nearly two years of detention

The first of five tankers loaded with gasoline sent from Iran has reached Venezuelan waters

Five Iranian tankers likely carrying at least $45.5 million worth of gasoline and similar products are now sailing to Venezuela. It’s part of a wider deal between the two U.S.-sanctioned nations amid heightened tensions between Tehran and Washington.

The FBI won’t give up on “finding out what happened” to former agent Robert Levinson, who the U.S. government believes died in the custody of the Iranians.

Iran says a military training accident has killed 19 of its sailors and wounded 15 others in waters near the strategic Strait of Hormuz

The Senate has failed to override a presidential veto of a bipartisan resolution declaring that President Donald Trump must get backing from Congress before engaging in further military action against Iran

President Donald Trump has vetoed a congressional resolution that said he must get an OK from Congress before engaging in further military action against Iran

Tensions are escalating between Washington and Tehran over an Iranian space launch and a tweeted threat by President Donald Trump

Iran’s Revolutionary Guard has launched its first satellite into space

Iran’s president has lashed out at criticism of authorities’ lagging response to the worst coronavirus outbreak in the Middle East.

A Navy veteran released from an Iranian prison last week on a medical furlough is sick with symptoms of the coronavirus and is requesting a humanitarian evacuation to the U.S. for medical treatment.

A federal judge has held Iran responsible for the kidnapping of former FBI agent Robert Levinson,