Middle East

United Arab Emirates (UAE) is the name of a country that didn’t exist before 1971 when the area was called Emirates of Motesalehe or the Emirates of the Coast of Oman.

Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) says it has launched retaliatory attacks on positions of anti-Iran terrorist groups along the Iranian borders with the Iraqi Kurdistan region.

Iran has returned a car assembly line in Syria to production, which makes an affordable model named the Sham after the country’s denomination during the seventh century Umayyad period.

Ranking diplomats from Iran and Russia have met in Tehran for talks on the situation in Syria and Yemen.

Russian President Vladimir Putin's special envoy for Syria says there will be no sustainable regional security unless Iran’s interests are met.

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has held talks with the UN special coordinator for Lebanon, Jan Kubiš, in Tehran.

Iraq has removed visa requirements for Iranian pilgrims going to the Arab country for Arba’een rituals based on an agreement signed by the two sides in Tehran.

Reports say Reza Pahlavi, the son of the former Shah of Iran, will soon receive a paycheck to appear in a show that will be produced by Saudi-backed satellite TV channel “Iran International”.

New reports suggest that Iran has considerably increased the amount of its exports to Iraq since last year despite the US sanctions.

Yemen’s Army said it has launched drone attacks on fighter jet hangars of Jizan airport in southwest of Saudi Arabia.

A senior Iranian official says the four Iranian diplomats abducted nearly forty years ago by Israeli-backed forces in Lebanon are still alive and held in Israeli jails.

Iranian Foreign Ministry has reiterated its call on the international bodies to follow up on the fate of the four Iranian diplomats abducted in Lebanon back in 1982.

Iran says Saudi Arabia is refusing to allow an Iranian oil tanker leave the port of Jeddah, demanding what it calls 'ransom money'.

President Bashar al-Assad says Syria fully supports the Iranian nation and the Islamic establishment against all threats and acts, which contravene international law and regulations.

Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, the Leader of Iran’s Islamic Revolution, has criticized those who believe the annual Hajj pilgrimage is not a political move.

Iranian and Iraqi officials have discussed further arrangements for a planned clean-up of Arvand Rud border river in a meeting in Tehran.

Saudi Arabia is reportedly refusing to release an Iranian oil tanker which has been docked at the port of Jeddah after a technical failure in late April.

Scores of Iraqi people have stormed the Bahrain embassy in the capital city of Baghdad to protest Manama's decision to host a key summit where the US showcased its so-called deal of century to end Palestinian-Israeli conflict.

Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister for Political Affairs Seyyed Abbas Araqchi and his Iraqi counterpart Nizar al-Khairallah on Wednesday held a meeting in Tehran.

Foreign Minister of Iran Mohammad Javad Zarif has slammed the US sanction against Leader of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei as a violation of the constitutional right of freedom of religion for American Muslims.

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has censured the US president for turning a blind eye to the Israeli regime’s nuclear arsenal while accusing Iran of seeking to develop nuclear weapons.

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says the B-Team – Bin Salman, Bin Zayed, Bolton, and Bibi – were dragging US President Donald Trump into a war with Iran, but prudence prevented that from happening.

A top Iranian military official says the Islamic Republic is fully prepared to help the neighbouring Iraq fulfil its air defence needs.

A top aide to Iran’s parliament speaker has lashed out at Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain for threatening regional security by allowing the US to use their territories for espionage, warning them of damages from a “self-inflicted fire”.

Iran’s Boxing Federation is threatening to boycott the upcoming schoolboys championships in Kuwait if the Asian Boxing Confederation would not use the one and real name of the ‘Persian Gulf’ in its official website.