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Tehran, Iran —  Four thousand Iranian petrochemical workers on strike over pay and conditions in an energy-producing region of the…

Influential Iranian Sunni Muslim cleric Abdul Hamid Ismaeelzehi, known as Molavi Abdul Hamid, criticized Iran’s supreme leader during his Friday…

ISLAMABAD —  The Taliban said Friday that their decision to bar local women from working for the United Nations was…

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates —  Masked Iranian navy commandos conducted a helicopter-borne raid to seize a U.S.-bound oil tanker in…

Iranian authorities have been shutting down a large number of shops and businesses around the country they say are not…

Human Rights Watch said Iranian security forces who are suppressing mass protests in the country have killed, tortured and sexually…

On the 5th anniversary of the imprisonment of Iranian American citizen Emad Shargi in Evin Prison, the U.S. special envoy…

Workers in Iran’s oil industry are continuing a strike over inadequate wage growth in several cities across the country, according…

WASHINGTON —  Iran’s new domestic surveillance program for enforcing its mandatory hijab law is having a shaky start, with many…

madrid —  The daughter of an environmentalist imprisoned by Iran said on Saturday she had lost confidence in U.S. President…