Sources: Global Post
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Iran imposes sanctions on 61 Americans for their association with exiled Iranian dissident group People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran. 2022-07-16
Six people are killed in Chabahar, Iran, and three more are killed in Muscat, Oman, as Cyclone Shaheen impacts the two countries. Shaheen is expected to make further landfalls in other parts of Oman later today. 2021-10-3
The number of daily confirmed cases in Iran rises by a record 13,843 cases over the past 24 hours, bringing the nationwide total of confirmed cases to 894,385. 2020-11-25
Iran reports 6,968 new cases and 346 deaths in the past 24 hours, its highest daily tally since the pandemic began, pushing the death toll to 33,299 and cumulative total cases to 581,824. 2020-10-27
Iran's Ministry of Health and Medical Education reports the highest daily death toll to date from COVID-19, recording 163 deaths. Iran's cases reach 240,438 while the deaths jump to 11,571. 2020-07-5
A fire is reported at a power plant in the city of Ahvaz, in south-western Iran, while a chlorine gas leak injures 70 workers at a petrochemicals plant near Bandar-e Emam Khomeyni. The incidents come after a string of other unexplained blazes and explosions at Iranian facilities. 2020-07-4
Syrian state media reports two Israeli missiles struck targets near Damascus International Airport overnight, including an Iranian cargo plane which had just landed. 2018-06-26
Iran plans to block use of the Google search engine, as it prepares to switch its citizens to a domestic internet network. 2012-09-23
The Government of Malaysia cancels a concert by expatriate Iranian singer Mohsen Namjoo "because it is not appropriate in terms of religion, culture and the country's cosmopolitan nature". 2011-02-15
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says that Lebanon is becoming a "satellite" of Iran after it hosts a controversial visit by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who again "predicts" Israel's destruction at a Hezbollah rally in southern Lebanon. 2010-10-14