according to U.S., European and Arab officials, in a significant blow to Tehran’s strategy for projecting power in the Middle East. The Iranian withdrawal marks the demise of a yearslong effort ...

In the same month, he posted a message on X to push for Israel’s “sovereignty” over the West Bank. “2025: the year of sovereignty in Judea and Samaria,” Smotrich wrote on X, using the biblical name by ...

According to the Public Relations Department of Bank Meli Iran (BMI), a new BOT with the ability to inquire and convert card, account, and Sheba numbers has been activated in the services’ section of ...

Iran's foreign ministry on Friday summoned the Italian ambassador to Tehran, protesting as an "illegal act" the arrest of an Iranian national by Italy, a day after a similar summoning in Rome. "Given ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. This image released Friday Dec. 27, 2024 by Chora Media shows Cecilia Sala, an Italian journalist who was ...

ROME — Italy summoned Iran’s ambassador on Thursday to demand the immediate release of an Italian journalist detained in Tehran, as the government and opposition ramped up public pressure on ...

Italy has summoned Iran’s ambassador to demand the immediate release of an Italian journalist detained in Tehran. Cecilia Sala, a reporter for the Il Foglio daily newspaper, was detained in ...

Italy and Iran summoned each other's ambassadors on Thursday, clashing over the detention of an Italian journalist in Tehran two weeks ago, with Rome demanding she be immediately released.

Ms Sala’s case has dominated Italian headlines for ... in which dozens of US hostages spent 444 days in captivity in Tehran, Iran has frequently used prisoners with Western ties as bargaining ...

President Biden confers with his national security advisor Jake Sullivan during a roundtable in Oct. 2023. Photo: Drew Angerer/Getty Images Smarter, faster on what matters.

TEHRAN, Iran (AFP) — Iran played a central role in Jimmy Carter’s presidency, but in Tehran, where state television branded him the “architect of economic sanctions,” many have far from ...

A resident of the central city of Petah Tikva has been arrested for carrying out missions on behalf of “foreign elements,” the Shin Bet security agency and police said Monday, the latest in a ...