Middle East

A Saudi prince has been derided by social media users after claiming that Riyadh is capable of destroying Iran in a matter of hours.

United Nations Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for Syria Geir O. Pedersen held a meeting with Senior Assistant to Iran's Foreign Minister in Special Political Affairs Ali-Asghar Khaji in Tehran.

Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has met with UN Special Envoy for Syria Geir O. Pedersen in Tehran.

Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Seyyed Abbas Mousavi has strongly condemned the Zionist regime’s Sunday aggression against southern Lebanon, describing it as a violation of international rules and regulations.

Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council praised the Lebanese Hezbollah for the Sunday’s attack on Israeli targets, saying the retaliatory operation attested to the resistance front’ determination to combat threats and destabilizing forces.

Ibrahim Mohamed al-Dailami, the new ambassador of Yemen to Iran, has met with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif in Tehran.

Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Seyyed Abbas Mousavi has condemned the Saudi warplanes’ deadly air raids against a prison in Yemen’s Dhamar where prisoners of war were being kept.

The former president of Sudan, Omar al-Bashir, has told a court that he received $25 million from Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.

Political commentator Fatemeh Sayyahi has weighed in on the consequences of attacks by the US and Israel on bases of the Iran-backed Popular Mobilization Forces in Iraq.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has scrambled to make sure US President Trump wouldn’t meet Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif while he was making his way to France for a surprise visit at the G7 summit on Sunday, US and Israeli officials say.

A former commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) has highlighted the intent behind the recent Israeli attacks on pro-Iranian targets in the region, saying the Zionist regime is hatching an opportunistic plot to wage a proxy war in the region, trigger instability, and mount pressure on Iran.

The “Deal of the Century” was orchestrated by the United States and Israel in order to remove Palestine from the geography of the world.

IRGC Quds Force Commander has downplayed the recent Israeli attacks on a number of positions in regional countries, saying the "insane operations" were Tel Aviv's last struggles.

The Islamic Republic of Iran will take part in the upcoming annual Health Expo of Baghdad in early September.

Iranian supertanker Adrian Darya 1 (formerly Grace 1) is heading for the Turkish port city of Mersin according to its AIS destination.

While the United Arab Emirates has been expressing willingness to ease tensions with Iran in recent weeks, the US news media suddenly disclosed secret meetings between the Emiratis and Israel. Now the question is why the Americans gave away such secret.

A former Iranian ambassador has explained why Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, two main regional rivals of Iran, have begun to change their policy and reach out to Iran.

The top Iranian diplomat says "security is a common global commodity," that either exists for everybody or no one.

Iran’s ambassador to the United Nations slammed the US military presence in the Middle East as a root cause of instability and insecurity, saying American arms sales have turned the region into a powder keg.

The Syrian Army forces have entered the key town of Khan Shaykhun in Idlib province for the first time since 2014 after heavy clashes with terrorists and anti-government militants, a UK-based war monitor said.

Ranking diplomats from Iran and China called for efforts to safeguard Syria’s territorial integrity in the face of US plans for northeastern Syria.

Iran’s Foreign Ministry has dismissed the US plan to establish a safe zone in northeastern Syria as a provocative measure in contravention of the UN Charter.

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has discussed bilateral ties and regional affairs with Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, the Crown Prince of Kuwait, in the Arab country's capital.

More than 600 Bahraini political prisoners are now on hunger strike to protest ill-treatment at Bahrain’s notorious Jaw prison.

Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has discussed a range of issues with members of Iran-Kuwait Friendship Association in the Arab county.