Australia frees Iranian student Australia frees Iranian student Reza Dehbashi Kivi, 39. He had long been fighting to avoid extradition to the US, after American authorities accused him of exporting military equipment for detecting stealth planes or missiles to Iran. Dehbashi has been liberated after being held in Australia for 13 months and has now […]

TEHRAN (Iran News) – Iran has released an Australian couple after three months behind the bars, the Australian foreign minister said. Australian Foreign Minister Marise Payne told reporters that it was “with some enormous relief” that she could announce Jolie King and Mark Firkin the releasing Australian couple “have been returned”. The couple spent almost […]

TEHRAN (Iran News) – A political analyst from London said the embassies of the US and UK in Baghdad are taking advantage of Iraq’s poor economic conditions following the defeat of ISIL by “deliberately stirring up trouble” in the Arab country. “If there are insufficient jobs, there must be some form of basic income. Yes, […]

Moqtada al-Sadr, a populist political leader who has a huge following on the Iraqi street, said new elections should be held soon. Iran News quotes the report of Baghdad protests by ILNA. “Respect the blood of Iraq through the resignation of the government and prepare for early elections overseen by international monitors,” a statement from […]

“In my opinion, there is basically no enemy among regional countries. The enemy is outside the region,” Zanganeh told reporters on Thursday night, Iran News quotes the Press TV report. He also called on regional countries to view Iran as their friend, expressing Tehran’s readiness to cooperate with its neighbors to secure the Persian Gulf […]

Iran News quotes the reports of alleged attorney, Gordon Caplan who is sentenced to one year imprisonment for rigging his daughter’s ACT exam. Already disbarred and removed from his prestigious law firm, Gordon Caplan on Thursday received a final rebuke from the legal system he once sat atop when he was sentenced to one month […]

Donald Trump on Thursday issued an executive order expanding private Medicare Advantage plans, contrasting his health care vision with Democrats’ calls for a greater government role in health care. Iran News covers the story of Trump new medicare coverage. Trump, who made the announcement at an expansive Florida retirement community that leans heavily Republican, set out […]

Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi called on lawmakers to support him to reshuffle cabinet posts and urged calm after three days of unrest rocked the country.

Israeli airstrikes on Syria could lead to further destabilization, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said in a newspaper interview.

Riot police in Iraq have fired live rounds into the air and used tear gas to disperse protesters, who took to the streets in the capital, Baghdad, for a second consecutive day against what they describe as unemployment and poor public services. Iran News covers the story. Police opened fire in the al-Shaab neighborhood of […]