Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Iranian demonstrators set fire while blocking a street during a protest at Tehran's Grand Bazaar in response to worsening economic ...

Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has entrusted Ali Larijani, the top national security official, to ensure the Islamic ...

Iranian Shiite mourners during Ashura, the 10th day of Muharram, on July 6, 2025, in Tehran. Photo by Majid Saeedi/Getty Images Twelver Shiism is the largest branch within Shiism – one of the two ...

BAGHDAD (AP) – Iran is promoting a conservative cleric close to its supreme leader as a possible successor for the aging spiritual leader of Iraq’s Shiites, a move that would give Tehran a powerful ...

Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player... As recent American military deployments to the Middle East and President Donald Trump’s escalatory rhetoric have heightened speculation of ...

Dubai — The US army reported that the missiles launched by Houthi militias targeting its navy ship in the Red Sea were “C202 silkworm” missiles that Iran had imported from China. Iran has been using ...

A billboard depicting Iraq's top Shiite cleric Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, in Baghdad — AHMAD AL-RUBAYE Iraq's top Shiite Muslim cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani warned against targeting Iran's ...

Iran is angrily denying US charges that it supplied Shiite groups in Iraq with armor-piercing weaponry. There's still talk about the nature of the briefing where American officials revealed their ...

Although “deal or war” is a classical compliance tactic, its main flaw is that the regime's commitment to survival may be more intense than Trump's commitment to its destruction.

It has become conventional wisdom that the strikes launched on Iran this year by Israel and the United States, and the shattering of Tehran’s allies and proxy militias in Gaza, Lebanon, and Syria, ...

Iran, a Shiite Islamic theocracy to Iraq’s east, would clearly like to exercise considerable influence over the new government of Iraq. But experts disagree about how much Iran, a member of President ...