Iran

A top Iranian security official says Israel used “electronic devices” to remotely kill a military nuclear scientist

Authorities say an Iranian scientist named by the West as the leader of the Islamic Republic’s disbanded military nuclear program has been killed in an ambush on the outskirts of Tehran

Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif condemned the killing and alleged “serious indications” of Israeli involvement.

While a Biden administration will likely try to restart talks with Iran, the main obstacle may be whether Iran is willing to negotiate — and at what price.

Israel has charged past the U.S. and New Zealand to emerge as the world’s best place to be a woman entrepreneur after Covid-19 shook up the annual rankings.

Saudi Arabia says it should be a part of any potential negotiations between the incoming U.S. administration and Iran on a new nuclear deal.

The United States and Israel tracked and killed a senior al-Qaida operative in Iran earlier this year, in a bold intelligence operation that came as the Trump administration was ramping up pressure on Tehran

Naguib Sawiris leveled strong criticism at Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, accusing the leader of making a “very big mess” in the Middle East.

While the Biden victory elicited collective sighs of relief for many leaders in Europe, the reaction in the Middle East is far less uniform.

The U.S. government announced this week that Iran was likely behind threatening emails received by people across the country that appeared to come from a far-right extremist group called the “Proud Boys” ordering them to vote for President Trump. LX News was joined by Randy Pestana of FIU’s Gordon Institute for Public Policy and Kristen Clarke of the National Lawyers’...

One of the hotly debated topics of Thursday’s presidential debate had to do with Iran and Russia, after the FBI said that foreign operatives used stolen voter registration data to intimidate Democratic voters.

Intelligence officials have confirmed that Russia and Iran are actively working to meddle in the upcoming U.S. election. Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe and FBI Director Christopher Wray said Iran and Russia have obtained voter information, and that Iran was behind recent emails to Florida voters urging them to switch parties and vote Republican.

Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe said the U.S. government has confirmed Iran and Russia had obtained voter registration information. “We have already seen Iran sending spoofed emails designed to intimidate voters,” said Ratcliffe. “Know that our election systems are resilient and you can be confident your votes are secure.”

A decade-long U.N. arms embargo on Iran that barred it from purchasing foreign weapons like tanks and fighter jets has expired

The Trump administration has blacklisted virtually all of Iran’s financial sector, dealing another blow to an economy that is already reeling under U.S. sanctions

Voters in November’s presidential election will choose how the United States deals with Iran and its nuclear capabilities, according to multiple government officials and experts across the Middle East. And as President Donald Trump’s administration is set to reimpose a “snapback” of sanctions on Iran on Saturday night, despite opposition from Europe, there are fresh concerns over regional stability. President Barack...

The Trump administration has declared that all U.N. sanctions against Iran have been restored, a move most of the rest of the world rejects as illegal

Iran’s state TV is reporting that the country’s authorities have executed a wrestler for allegedly murdering a man

The president of the U.N. Security Council has rejected the Trump administration’s demand to restore all U.N. sanctions on Iran

The Trump administration ran into immediate opposition after its top diplomat officially informed the United Nations it is demanding the restoration of all U.N. sanctions on Iran