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Iran's oldest tire factory has shut down due to "financial problems", state news agency IRNA reported Wednesday. Kian Tire was once the "largest producer of off-road tires in Iran" but closed its doors several days ago due to "financial problems and difficulties in the supply of raw materials", AFP quoted…

Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh said on Monday that part of the Iranian assets frozen under US sanctions “will be released soon,” without giving further details. The official IRNA news agency quoted Khatibzadeh as saying that the necessary framework for removing the blockade of a “significant part” of Iran's…

A fighter jet has crashed in northwest Iran and killed two pilots and a civilian, the country's state-run news agency reported Monday. IRNA said the F-5 fighter crashed into a stadium in a residential area of Tabriz and two pilots and a citizen were killed. Authorities are investigating the disaster,…

A majority of Iran's parliament on Sunday issued a statement of conditions to be met if Tehran is to rejoin the 2015 nuclear deal with global powers, the country's official IRNA news agency reported.

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei accused Joe Biden and Donald Trump of damaging the reputation of the United States in a rare direct criticism of U.S. presidents, Iran's official news agency IRNA reported on Tuesday.

Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard killed an unidentified gunman who attacked its intelligence office Monday in southern Iran, near the Pakistani border, the country's state-run IRNA news agency reported. The report said the attack happened in the town of Saravan, in the southeastern province of Sistan and Baluchistan, about 1,360 kilometers…

A lioness killed her keeper in Iran on Sunday as he was feeding her lunch, then escaped with her male partner and prowled around a zoo before being captured, media reported. The official IRNA news agency said the 40-year-old victim, identified only by his family name, Esfandani, was putting meat…

Iranian authorities on Sunday arrested an individual for destroying a statue of Ruhollah Khomeini the previous day, a local official said. The incident comes as Iran prepares to celebrate in February the 43rd anniversary of the Iranian revolution and Khomenei's triumphant return to Tehran from exile. "We have received a…

The director general of Iran's Chabahar Free Zone, an economic development project in the country's southeast, has been arrested for "major offences", state news agency IRNA reported Sunday. It said the prosecutor in Sistan-Baluchistan province placed Abdorahim Kordi in custody, citing a statement from the intelligence branch of Iran's Revolutionary…