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Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei

Head of Government

President Masoud Pezeshkian

Missiles displayed at the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ Aerospace Force Museum in Tehran, Iran. Photo: Reuters

US-Iran tensions

Iran’s military power non-negotiable in US talks, Revolutionary Guard says

The warning comes as Tehran and Washington are set for another high-level nuclear talks in Oman.

15 Apr 2025 - 7:01PM

Malaysia

Iran’s meth cartels target Australia via Malaysia’s Port Klang

14 Apr 2025 - 8:34AMvideocam

US-Iran tensions

US Pentagon chief says military ready to ensure Iran never gets a nuclear bomb

14 Apr 2025 - 8:22AMvideocam

Middle East

US in hurry for nuclear deal, Iran says after high-stakes talks, Trump threats

Iran’s foreign minister briefly spoke face-to-face with the US president’s special envoy, and says discussions will resume next week.

13 Apr 2025 - 3:46PM

A 3D-printed miniature model of US President Donald Trump and the US and Iran flags are seen in this illustration from January 15. Photo: Reuters

US-Iran tensions

Last chance for diplomacy? US, Iran open decade-defining nuclear talks

With Trump’s threats and a tight two-month deadline, analysts warn that failure to compromise could trigger a dangerous escalatory cycle.

12 Apr 2025 - 1:10PM

US-Iran tensions

US moves B-2 bombers to Indian Ocean base in message to Iran

Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth insists Tehran ‘should not have a nuclear bomb’.

10 Apr 2025 - 1:10PMvideocam

Donald Trump

Trump says he’d use US military to stop Iran from getting nuclear weapons

The US president says Israel would be ‘the leader’ of such a strike if necessary.

10 Apr 2025 - 7:41AM

A woman walks past a mural depicting the US flag with the stars replaced by skulls and the white and red stripes with silhouettes of soldiers firing assault rifles, painted on the outer walls of the former US embassy in Tehran on Tuesday. Photo: AFP

Science

US decouples from China in war on cancer, denying access to research databanks

National Institutes of Health issues security update one day after its new director takes office amid Washington’s anti-Beijing policies.

9 Apr 2025 - 4:07PMvideocam

Iraq

Amnesty says Iran, Iraq and Saudi executed 1,380 people last year

The rights group said that drug-related offences accounted for more than 40 per cent of all executions globally.

8 Apr 2025 - 11:50AMvideocam

US-Iran tensions

Trump says US, Iran beginning direct talks on Tehran’s nuclear programme

During meeting with Israeli PM Netanyahu at the White House, Trump warned Tehran of ‘great danger’ if talks are not successful.

8 Apr 2025 - 3:41PMvideocam

US President Donald Trump, right, with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during their meeting in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington on Monday. Photo: EPA-EFE

Sex and relationships

Dating is a fraught affair in Iran, where tradition and modernity collide

In Iran, cultural shifts and societal pressures create challenges for young people eager to find a partner. To succeed they must break rules.

6 Apr 2025 - 4:15PM

An Iranian couple walk together in a park in central Tehran. Photo: NurPhoto via Getty Images

Donald Trump

Iran calls Trump’s direct talks on nuclear deal ‘meaningless’

Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi says Tehran is ‘ready to try the path of indirect negotiations’.

6 Apr 2025 - 3:44PM

Middle East

US sends second aircraft carrier to Middle East as Iran tensions rise

The Carl Vinson will join the Harry S. Truman as US forces hammer Yemen’s Houthi rebels with near-daily air strikes.

2 Apr 2025 - 3:49PM

Middle East

Iran warns it will acquire a nuclear weapon if attacked

Trump has threatened Iran with ‘bombing’ if Tehran does not come to an agreement with Washington over its nuclear programme.

1 Apr 2025 - 1:24PM

Iranian missiles displayed at the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps(IRGC) Aerospace Force Museum in Tehran, Iran. File photo: West Asia press Agency via Reuters

Middle East

Yemen’s Houthis claim they shot down another US Reaper drone

Claimed downing of US$30 million drone came as Trump warned ‘real pain is yet to come’ for Houthis and Iran.

1 Apr 2025 - 3:03PM

Donald Trump

Iran rejects direct negotiations with US as Trump threatens ‘bombing’

US president threatens Iran with bombs and tariffs if Tehran does not come to an agreement with Washington over its nuclear programme.

31 Mar 2025 - 1:31PM

Middle East

Tehran sit-in dispersed after 48 days outside Iran’s parliament

The protesters were calling for the implementation of a bill imposing tougher penalties on women who refuse to wear the covering.

30 Mar 2025 - 4:31PM

United States

Opinion | Trump’s Maga ambition may be more audacious than we think

Outrageous? Yes. But a United States of all Americas and including Greenland would be the first truly planetary North-South superpower.

29 Mar 2025 - 5:30AMvideocam

US President Donald Trump announces tariffs on auto imports in the Oval Office of the White House on March 26. Photo: AFP

Middle East

Kurds ponder future in Turkey, Syria and Iraq with guarded optimism

The mood among the Kurds has changed after Kurdish militant leader Abdullah Ocalan urged the PKK to end its struggle against Turkey.

28 Mar 2025 - 6:05PM

South Africa

South Africa’s expelled US ambassador returns home with ‘no regrets’

Ebrahim Rasool was expelled after he described Trump’s Maga movement as a supremacist reaction to diversity in the US.

24 Mar 2025 - 10:47AM

Middle East

Iran nuclear deal ‘cannot be revived’, foreign minister says

After Trump pulled out of the deal and restored sanctions in 2018, Iran breached and surpassed the deal’s limits in its nuclear development.

23 Mar 2025 - 6:20PM

Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei addressing the crowd during his annual Nowruz speech, in Tehran, Iran, on Friday. Photo: AFP

China-Russia relations

Closer China-Iran ties could provoke US into ‘harsher’ response on nuclear issue: analysts

Beijing’s successful multilateral talks with Tehran and Moscow may lead to more pressure from Washington, experts warn.

21 Mar 2025 - 5:34PMvideocam

China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi hosts the trilateral meeting with Iran and Russia on March 14, which Beijing hopes will restart long-stalled negotiations on Tehran’s nuclear programme. Photo: AFP

Israel-Gaza war

Israeli military says it intercepts 2 missiles launched from Yemen

Israeli said it also downed a missile launched from Yemen earlier in the day after sirens blared in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv.

21 Mar 2025 - 7:36AM

US-Iran tensions

US slaps Iran-related sanctions on oil tankers, Chinese ‘teapot’ refinery

China is largest importer of Iranian oil and ‘teapot’ refiners are private Chinese refineries that are primary buyers of Iranian oil.

21 Mar 2025 - 12:48AMvideocam

France

Iran frees French citizen after nearly 900-day prison ordeal

Olivier Grondeau was arrested in 2022 and sentenced to five years in prison on espionage charges, which his family denies.

20 Mar 2025 - 4:43PM

French citizen Olivier Grondeau aboard a plane after being released by Iranian authorities. Photo: X account of France’s Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot

Israel-Gaza war

Hamas in no-win situation as Israeli strikes on Gaza resume

Experts say Hamas faces dwindling options amid renewed Israeli attacks on war-torn Gaza.

20 Mar 2025 - 8:58AMvideocam

An Israeli military helicopter on Wednesday. Photo: AFP

Music

US visa fee increases, delays make tours there ‘not worth it’ for artists

1,000-day waits for interviews. 8 months for processing. Higher fees. Visa applications are a headache for acts looking to tour the States.

22 Mar 2025 - 6:56PM

Ukraine war

Trump, Putin agree on partial Ukraine ceasefire. Kyiv wants details

Ukraine ceasefire talks set for Sunday in Jeddah after Trump and Russian president hold lengthy phone call.

19 Mar 2025 - 4:00PM

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Iran

Iran’s military power non-negotiable in US talks, Revolutionary Guard says

The warning comes as Tehran and Washington are set for another high-level nuclear talks in Oman.

Iran’s meth cartels target Australia via Malaysia’s Port Klang

US Pentagon chief says military ready to ensure Iran never gets a nuclear bomb

US in hurry for nuclear deal, Iran says after high-stakes talks, Trump threats

Iran’s foreign minister briefly spoke face-to-face with the US president’s special envoy, and says discussions will resume next week.

Last chance for diplomacy? US, Iran open decade-defining nuclear talks

With Trump’s threats and a tight two-month deadline, analysts warn that failure to compromise could trigger a dangerous escalatory cycle.

US moves B-2 bombers to Indian Ocean base in message to Iran

Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth insists Tehran ‘should not have a nuclear bomb’.

Trump says he’d use US military to stop Iran from getting nuclear weapons

The US president says Israel would be ‘the leader’ of such a strike if necessary.

US decouples from China in war on cancer, denying access to research databanks

National Institutes of Health issues security update one day after its new director takes office amid Washington’s anti-Beijing policies.

Amnesty says Iran, Iraq and Saudi executed 1,380 people last year

The rights group said that drug-related offences accounted for more than 40 per cent of all executions globally.

Trump says US, Iran beginning direct talks on Tehran’s nuclear programme

During meeting with Israeli PM Netanyahu at the White House, Trump warned Tehran of ‘great danger’ if talks are not successful.

Dating is a fraught affair in Iran, where tradition and modernity collide

In Iran, cultural shifts and societal pressures create challenges for young people eager to find a partner. To succeed they must break rules.

Iran calls Trump’s direct talks on nuclear deal ‘meaningless’

Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi says Tehran is ‘ready to try the path of indirect negotiations’.

US sends second aircraft carrier to Middle East as Iran tensions rise

The Carl Vinson will join the Harry S. Truman as US forces hammer Yemen’s Houthi rebels with near-daily air strikes.

Iran warns it will acquire a nuclear weapon if attacked

Trump has threatened Iran with ‘bombing’ if Tehran does not come to an agreement with Washington over its nuclear programme.

Yemen’s Houthis claim they shot down another US Reaper drone

Claimed downing of US$30 million drone came as Trump warned ‘real pain is yet to come’ for Houthis and Iran.

Iran rejects direct negotiations with US as Trump threatens ‘bombing’

US president threatens Iran with bombs and tariffs if Tehran does not come to an agreement with Washington over its nuclear programme.

Tehran sit-in dispersed after 48 days outside Iran’s parliament

The protesters were calling for the implementation of a bill imposing tougher penalties on women who refuse to wear the covering.

Opinion | Trump’s Maga ambition may be more audacious than we think

Outrageous? Yes. But a United States of all Americas and including Greenland would be the first truly planetary North-South superpower.

Kurds ponder future in Turkey, Syria and Iraq with guarded optimism

The mood among the Kurds has changed after Kurdish militant leader Abdullah Ocalan urged the PKK to end its struggle against Turkey.

South Africa’s expelled US ambassador returns home with ‘no regrets’

Ebrahim Rasool was expelled after he described Trump’s Maga movement as a supremacist reaction to diversity in the US.

Iran nuclear deal ‘cannot be revived’, foreign minister says

After Trump pulled out of the deal and restored sanctions in 2018, Iran breached and surpassed the deal’s limits in its nuclear development.

Closer China-Iran ties could provoke US into ‘harsher’ response on nuclear issue: analysts

Beijing’s successful multilateral talks with Tehran and Moscow may lead to more pressure from Washington, experts warn.

Israeli military says it intercepts 2 missiles launched from Yemen

Israeli said it also downed a missile launched from Yemen earlier in the day after sirens blared in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv.

US slaps Iran-related sanctions on oil tankers, Chinese ‘teapot’ refinery

China is largest importer of Iranian oil and ‘teapot’ refiners are private Chinese refineries that are primary buyers of Iranian oil.

Iran frees French citizen after nearly 900-day prison ordeal

Olivier Grondeau was arrested in 2022 and sentenced to five years in prison on espionage charges, which his family denies.

Hamas in no-win situation as Israeli strikes on Gaza resume

Experts say Hamas faces dwindling options amid renewed Israeli attacks on war-torn Gaza.

US visa fee increases, delays make tours there ‘not worth it’ for artists

1,000-day waits for interviews. 8 months for processing. Higher fees. Visa applications are a headache for acts looking to tour the States.

Trump, Putin agree on partial Ukraine ceasefire. Kyiv wants details

Ukraine ceasefire talks set for Sunday in Jeddah after Trump and Russian president hold lengthy phone call.

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