Shia Muslims mark Imam Reza's martyrdom anniversary with social distancing

Every year on Imam Reza's martyrdom anniversary, his holy shrine gets jampacked with pilgrims, who attend his shrine to mark one of the major occasions on the Islamic calendar, the martyrdom anniversary of the eighth Shia Imam.

President Rouhani says Iran entitled to free arms trade in days with UN ban expiry

President Hassan Rouhani says Iran will be free to trade weapons as of Sunday after the United States failed in its attempts to secure an extension of the United Nations arms embargo against the Islamic Republic.

US maximum pressure campaign immense pressure on all Iranians

Several rounds of unilateral American sanctions have failed to produce tangible results for Washington yet have seriously hurt the economy and caused the Iranian currency to fall to unprecedented low levels, making life hard for ordinary Iranians.

Iran loses living legend maestro Mohammad-Reza Shajarian to cancer

Iran loses legendary maestro, Mohammad-Reza Shajarian, the country’s most prominent and internationally-acclaimed vocalist in the area of traditional Persian music, to kidney cancer.

Iranians marks Arba'een with social distancing

In Iran, those who cannot make it to Karbala, take part in a symbolic march from Tehran to the town of Rey. This year, such a march was also called off.

How did Imam see US-led Western sanctions against Iran?

Imam wanted the Muslim world to confront the imperial monopoly and work together and change balance of power in the interests of the Muslim nations.

President Rouhani says White House ‘responsible’ for all crimes against Iranians

Sacred Defense Week: Iran has developed a totally native defence capability

Four decades ago, on 22 September 1980, a day etched in the collective Iranian consciousness, Iraqi airstrikes took the country by surprise. Eight major Iranian airbases and four military installations were targeted. Iran was a sitting duck.