FIFA has unveiled the official poster for the 2026 FIFA World Cup, with the image of Iranian national team captain Alireza Jahanbakhsh prominently featured among the showcased players.
Iran's Permanent Mission to the United Nations has slammed Canada for posturing as a global champion of human rights, stressing the North American country should be put on trial over its history of systemic racism against its Indigenous people.
Billionaires in the world's leading economies made $2.2 trillion last year, which would have been enough to lift all the world's poor out of poverty, global campaign group Oxfam announced in a report on Thursday.
Iranian motocross rider Elena Madanipour has been placed in a coma following a serious crash during the national motocross championship at Tehran’s Azadi track on Wednesday, marking the second major accident in the sport within six months and raising renewed questions over safety standards and oversight.
Seven international flights en route to Dubai from Russia and the Czech Republic made emergency landings at Bandar Abbas International Airport on Thursday after severe low visibility forced the temporary closure of Dubai International Airport, a major regional aviation hub.
Nearly one in three women – totalling about 840 million around the world – have experienced intimate partner or sexual violence in their lifetimes, the World Health Organization (WHO) has reported.
Damascus has denounced a trip by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other senior officials to the country’s south, where they visited troops deployed to Syrian territory they’ve occupied for months.
A US-proposed peace plan for the Russia-Ukraine conflict developed jointly with Moscow requires major concessions from Kiev and would amount to it giving up its sovereignty, the Financial Times has reported. Russia has not confirmed the proposal.
Iranian actor and director Peyman Maadi has been selected as a member of the jury for the Marrakech Film Festival, in Morocco, chaired by Oscar-winning South Korean director Bong Joon-ho.
Israel’s Defense Ministry says the 1,000th aircraft carrying Western military supplies since the start of the Gaza war has landed in Israel, bringing the total volume of military cargo delivered since October 8, 2023, to more than 120,000 tons.
Hundreds of career Israeli soldiers, including senior officers, have submitted requests for early retirement, deepening the military’s manpower crisis as Tel Aviv struggles with shortages during its war in the Gaza Strip, according to a report.
The European Union wants to train up to 3,000 Palestinian police officers in the Gaza Strip under a scheme similar to one it already runs in the West Bank, an EU official stated Wednesday.
Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Rafael Grossi has confirmed the resumption of normal monitoring at Iran’s nuclear sites that were not damaged by the United States.
The Iranian Foreign Ministry in a statement on the United Nations Security Council resolution on Gaza has stressed that the drafters of this resolution have consciously ignored the central position and role of the world body and even the previous resolutions on the issue of Palestine.
Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman has dismissed the US president’s assertion about Tehran–Washington talks, saying that no negotiation process currently exists between the Islamic Republic and the United States.
Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister for Legal and International Affairs has denied as false any claims that Tehran has held secret negotiations with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
At least 13 people have been killed in an Israeli air attack on a Palestinian refugee camp in southern Lebanon, according to the Lebanese Ministry of Public Health.
Mohammad-Mehdi Seddiqi, son of Ayatollah Kazem Seddiqi, the former Tehran Friday Prayer leader, who was at the center of financial and property scheme passed away due to cardiac arrest, Iranian media reported. He was 48.
Iran’s Department of Environment has warned that the Caspian Sea is facing a rapidly escalating ecological crisis, with water levels dropping approximately one meter over the past five years.
The families of Sept. 11, 2001, victims have condemned US President Donald Trump’s meeting with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman over Saudi Arabia’s alleged role in the decades-old terror attacks.
Amir Saeid Iravani, Iran’s permanent ambassador to the United Nations has warned that the recent US-drafted resolution adopted at the UN Security Council on establishment of a foreign force in the Gaza Strip must not be allowed to undermine Palestinian rights or shield the Israeli regime from accountability.
The head of Iran’s Strategic Council on Foreign Relations and senior advisor to the Iranian Leader said any future negotiations with the US must be based on “equality and mutual respect,” emphasizing that both the agenda and framework of talks must be agreed upon in advance.
