He was traveling in Iran as a tourist, Swiss authorities say, when collared on espionage charges. Meanwhile, France summoned Iran's ambassador over three "hostages" held since 2022.Switzerland ...

Iran's parliament sacked the country's finance minister on Sunday after impeaching him over soaring inflation and a plunging ...

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Iran’s stockpile of highly enriched uranium has sharply expanded since November, a report by the International Atomic Energy ...

France, Germany and Britain were co-signatories to the 2015 deal in which Iran agreed to curb enrichment, seen by the West as a disguised effort to develop nuclear-weapons capability, in return for ...

Iran executed at least 975 people last year in a "horrifying escalation" of its use of capital punishment, two human rights groups said on Thursday. Norway-based Iran Human Rights (IHR) and French ...

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FIRST ON FOX: Europe must reinstate harsh United Nations sanctions on Iran, U.S. lawmakers insisted in a new resolution that accused Tehran of repeated violations of the 2015 nuclear deal brokered ...

Credit: ERIC PIERMONT/AFP/Getty Images Female flight attendants are furious that Air France will require them to wear headscarves and loose clothing in Tehran when service from Paris to Iran's ...

Iran can contribute to peace and stability in the Middle East region and thus regain a constructive place in the international community. With this in mind, France encourages Iran to behave in a ...