EU imposes new sanctions on Iran over protest crackdown

The European Union on Monday introduced new sanctions against Iran for a "brutal" crackdown on protests, but the bloc's top diplomat said the country's Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) cannot be listed as a terrorist group without a court decision.

There is a growing conviction that the recall of EU ambassadors and the closure of Western embassies in Tehran, followed by the expulsion of all Iranian diplomatic staff and their cohorts from Europe and the U.S., would be a more forceful response to the regime's barbarity.

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European Union countries are working on a 10th package of sanctions to take effect next month against Russia for waging war against Ukraine, diplomatic sources told Reuters.

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Iran and South Korea summoned each other's envoys in a deepening spat over comments by South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol that described the Islamic republic as the enemy of the United Arab Emirates.

In his memoir, Prince Harry claimed he killed 25 Taliban fighters while serving in Afghanistan from 2012 to 2013.

As a young prosecutor in Tehran, Ebrahim Raisi sat on a "death committee" overseeing the execution of hundreds of political prisoners in the Iranian capital, rights groups say.

France concerned for health of French-Irish citizen held in Iran

The Kremlin said on Tuesday that another meeting between President Vladimir Putin's foreign spy chief and U.S.

Iranian oil exports hit new highs in the last two months of 2022 and are making a strong start to 2023 despite U.S.

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Iran's Supreme Leader has stressed the need for the country's navy to strengthen its combat capability and maintain its presence in international waters.

France's foreign ministry said on Tuesday it had not ruled out the idea that the European Union designate Iran's Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) as a terrorist organisation, a day after Germany said the move would be politically important and make sense.

Iran's hanging of protesters -- and display of their lifeless bodies suspended from cranes -- seems to have instilled enough fear to keep people off the streets after months of anti-government unrest.

Video footage shows the Hengam-class landing ship IRIS Lavan launching an Ababil "suicide drone" toward the mock naval base.

The deployment of the U.S. fighter jets at the Nevatim airbase in southern Israel is a part of a doctrine called "agile combat employment."

Moscow was looking for potential buyers for the fighter jets since its original deal with Egypt was thwarted by the U.S.

Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz boasted that Israel "significantly increased" its preparedness and was now preparing for a possible attack against Iran.

At least 277 Iranian cities and towns have been the site of demonstrations in which people have chanted slogans like "death to the dictator" and "down with oppression, be it the Shah's or the mullahs."

Kremlin says Biden, Zelensky refusing to hear 'Russia's concerns'

Nationwide protests sparked by the death in custody of Iranian Kurdish woman Mahsa Amini have ushered Iran into a new era of deepening crisis between the clerical leadership and society at large.

Iran's foreign minister said on Wednesday he spoke with his Saudi counterpart on the sidelines of a conference in Jordan the previous day, the highest-level encounter reported between officials from the rival states since they cut ties in 2016.

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Jordan to host MidEast summit in bid to defuse regional tensions

The United States accused U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres of "apparently yielding to Russian threats" and not sending officials to Ukraine to inspect drones used by Russia that Washington and others say were supplied by Iran.

For nearly two years the United States has tried and failed to negotiate a revival of the 2015 Iran nuclear deal yet Washington and its European allies refuse to close the door to diplomacy.

Tehran fears that violating restrictions by supplying longer-range missiles and drones to Russia would result in the reimposition of UN sanctions.

The former Russian president's remarks came after Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu's call last month for the military to develop next-generation weapons.