Snopes investigated a years-old picture that challenged some online users' perceptions of the Middle Eastern country.

A viral video has emerged showing an Iranian woman defying traditional norms at an airport by grabbing a Muslim cleric's turban and using it to cover her head as a hijab. In the footage, the woman, ...

TEHRAN: Iran, bracing for a possible re-imposition of incoming US president Donald Trump's "maximum pressure" policy, said on Saturday (Dec 28) that 2025 would be an important year for its nuclear ...

UNTIL RECENTLY, SADEGHI WORKED FOR A LOCAL COMPUTER COMPANY, AND HE’S ACCUSED OF SENDING TECHNOLOGY FROM THAT COMPANY TO IRAN. THAT’S WHERE OFFICIALS SAY THE TECHNOLOGY WAS USED TO BUILD ...

Italy's government said Friday that a journalist from the country had been detained by Iranian authorities for a week and that the circumstances of her detention remained unclear. The Italian ...

Cecilia Sala, an Italian journalist for the newspaper Il Foglio, was arrested in Iran earlier in the month, Italy’s foreign ministry announced on Friday. The arrest took place on Dec. 19 but was only ...

JERUSALEM—President-elect Donald Trump’s slated revival of his maximum pressure campaign against the Islamic Republic of Iran coupled with a chronic gas shortage in the nation could be the one ...

Italian journalist Cecilia Sala was detained by Tehran police last Thursday while in Iran for a reporting assignment, the Italian Foreign Ministry confirmed on Friday. In a statement, the ministry ...

Afra’s father, Amirfarhang Mirzaee, is still in Iran, unable to join his family here despite Canada’s well-advertised policy of family reunification. Canada opened its arms to Iranians after a ...

An Italian journalist has been under arrest in Iran for more than a week, Italy's foreign ministry has said. Cecilia Sala works for Il Foglio newspaper and for podcast company Chora Media.

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