Sources: RIA Novosti Tehran Times
The Iranian IRGC Navy seizes two foreign oil tankers in the Persian Gulf and is towing the vessels to the country's Bushehr port, claiming they are part of a "fuel-smuggling network". It is currently unknown what countries the vessels belong to. 2025-03-31
Jaish ul-Adl militants attack a police station in Rask, Sistan and Baluchestan province, Iran, killing eleven officers and wounding others. Several gunmen are also killed in the ensuing shootout. 2023-12-14
The number of new cases since the beginning of the pandemic in Iran rises by a record of 6,134 in the past 24 hours and pushes the overall count up to 556,891. This is the first time that new cases have surpassed more than 6,000. In addition, health ministry spokeswoman Sima Sadat Lari warns that 30 of 31 provinces are in the red zone with a high risk of COVID-19 infection. 2020-10-23
At least seven ships are burnt following an unspecified incident in the Iranian port city of Bushehr. 2020-07-15
Iran's police, security council and interior ministry will empty the streets of people in the next 24 hours in an effort to contain the coronavirus. 2020-03-13
An Iranian female football fan, Sahar Khodayari, dies one week after setting herself on fire outside a court, reportedly after learning she may have to serve a six-month sentence for trying to enter a football stadium alongside men. 2019-09-9
Hezbollah fighters and newly arrived Iranian troops are reportedly preparing for a 'major ground offensive' in northern Syria, backed by Russian air-strikes. 2015-10-1
Four suspects are arrested in Germany for their alleged involvement in illegally providing Iran with necessary technical parts to build a nuclear reactor. 2012-08-15
Russian engineers start loading fuel into Iran's first nuclear reactor at Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant. 2010-08-21
Iran's atomic energy chief says Iran will begin building a new nuclear reactor, and Iran will keep enriching uranium, despite UN nuclear sanctions. 2010-06-16