Tehran: Naval forces of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) have said they seized a foreign vessel on Sunday over smuggling fuel in the Gulf region, Iranian state TV reported. Thursday’s Iranian statement comes days after the announcement of the disappearance of the oil ...

Iran has warned the United States that it will forcefully retaliate any moves by the US military against the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps. Iran's envoy to the United Kingdom Hamid Baeidinejad told a US news channel that American military forces in the Persian Gulf region are in a volatile ...

The United States has designated Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps a foreign terrorist organization. In a statement, President Donald Trump said the IRGC is the Iranian government’s primary means of directing and implementing its global terrorist campaign. He said the designation ...

WASHINGTON: The United States on Tuesday imposed fresh sanctions on a network of companies and people in Iran, Turkey and the United Arab Emirates it said was helping to raise billions of dollars to fund the operations of Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards. The U.S. Treasury blacklisted 25 ...

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has pardoned a large number of prisoners in honor of the 40th anniversary of the Islamic Revolution. According to state media, it would apply to some fifty thousand prisoners, the largest number ever covered in a single pardon. 

Tehran: Iran announced the "successful test" of a new cruise missile with a range of over 1,350 kilometres on Saturday, coinciding with celebrations for the country's 1979 Islamic revolution. "The test of the Hoveizeh cruise missile was carried out successfully at a range of 1,200 kilometres (840 ...

TEHRAN - Forty years ago Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the Shiite cleric who led Iran's unfolding Islamic revolution, was welcomed back to Tehran by a jubilant throng after more than 14 years in exile. This story by AFP journalist Patrick Meney, originally in French, captures the mood of that ...

TEHRAN - Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps launched large-scale military maneuvers in Persian Gulf near the strategic Hormuz Strait. Iranian state television reported on Saturday that The “Great Prophet 12” exercises are taking place with participation of offensive and ...

Washington: The United States has imposed new sanctions against officials of Iran's Revolutionary Guard for allegedly providing ballistic missile-related expertise to armed Houthi rebels in Yemen. The US Department of Treasury said, in a statement, that The United States will not tolerate Iranian ...

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani says Tehran will remain committed to the nuclear deal with World powers as long as the other side respects it. Addressing a huge gathering in Tehran in connection with the 39th anniversary of the Islamic revolution in the country, he said the United States could not ...