The Iranian people are, for the first time in decades, worried about whether the leaders who have been their captors are not also their protectors.

According to Iranian President Hassan Rohani, Germany France and the United Kingdom, are bowing to "high school bully" Donald Trump.

Iran's sole female Olympic medalist Kimia Alizadeh announced that she has permanently left her country for Europe. "Let me start with a greeting, a farewell or condolences," the 21-year--old wrote in an Instagram post explaining why she was defecting. "I am one of the millions of oppressed women in Iran who they have been playing with for years."

In recent decades, most nations have agreed on certain norms to ensure peace, including an end to assassinations. Trump's move to kill an Iranian general upends this carefully balanced system.

Iran had so far denied responsibility for Wednesday's Ukrainian plane crash, which killed 176 people.

Republicans used their old Iraq tricks to quash critics of Trump's Iran adventure. But this time nobody's buying

Rob Macaire, the British ambassador to Tehran, has been arrested and detained for an hour during protests outside a university, local reports say.

The drills come as President Trump boosts the US military presence in Saudi Arabia by sending extra troops, as global tensions rise. China’s defence ministry said on Thursday said it would take part in the joint operation and downplayed its significance. Beijing will dispatch a guided missile destroyer known as the Xining.

Experts agree use of self-defence as justification for killing Soleimani requires proof of 'imminent attack'.

Iran is no longer abiding by many of the restrictions in the landmark 2015 nuclear deal, but that doesn’t mean it’s about to build a bomb, either.

Iran fired rockets early on Wednesday at Iraq's al Asad airbase

A Boeing 737 passenger plane operated by a Ukrainian airline crashed minutes after take-off from Tehran killing all on board, Iranian news agencies said Wednesday.

Iran’s aviation authority has said it will not hand over flight recorders from the Ukraine International Airlines Boeing 737-800 plane that crashed moments after takeoff from Tehran, killing all 176 passengers and crew onboard, either to the aircraft’s manufacturer or US aviation authorities.

After months of deadly protests, Iraq's parliament has approved a new election law that upends parts of the post-US invasion system. A prominent Shiite cleric said the law "will get rid of all corrupt parties."

This is the moment and American guided missile slammed into a convoy carrying Iranian Quds commander Qassem Soleimani, killing him along with four other high-ranking figures.

Experts say that looking at past wars in Iraq to see what oil will do next is folly. Here is why.

In an act whose implications are impossible to overstate, the United States has assassinated General Qasem Soleimani, arguably Iran’s second most powerful official. In the early hours of this morning, the entire Middle East stood on the verge of a regional war as the US Department of Defense announced it killed Soleimani in a “defensive action […] aimed at deterring future Iranian attack plans”. But Soleimani’s killing will be seen by the Iranian government as nothing short of an official declaration of war. Tehran’s next move will determine the precise form this new war will take.

Iranian hackers have carried out some of the most disruptive acts of digital sabotage of the last decade, wiping entire computer networks in waves of cyberattacks across the Middle East and occasionally even the US. But now one of Iran's most active hacker groups appears to have shifted focus. Rather than just standard IT networks, they're targeting the physical control systems used in electric utilities, manufacturing, and oil refineries.

Iran has foiled a second cyber-attack in under a week, the country's telecommunications minister says. Mohammad Javad Azari-Jahromi said the attack had targeted Iranian electronic government systems. The minister did not give details. A similar claim was made about Wednesday "massive" attack.

The rights group described a brutal campaign to kill protesters and mass arrests to intimidate. Revised estimates say the death toll in a three-day crackdown in November was at least 304.