Iran warns UK about ‘consequences’ of oil tanker seizure

President Hassan Rouhani warns the UK about the “consequences” of its recent seizure of an Iranian supertanker.

Muslims boycott Hajj over Saudi crown prince’s policies: Foreign Policy

Analyst says Trump's cronies driving US into war with Iran

US President Donald Trump is being driven into a war with Iran by his cronies, a former American Senate foreign policy analyst says.

Our new Saddam Hussein, an editorial by the Washington Post

Once upon a time, there was a brutal and reckless dictator of an oil-rich Arab country who, despite his well-documented excesses, was stroked and supported by the United States and other Western governments. By: Jackson Diehl, deputy Editorial Page editor at The Washington Post

The ‘forgotten’ US shootdown of Iranian airliner Flight 655­

Today marks twenty-nine years since the shootdown by the USS Vincennes of Iran Air flight 655, which killed all of the plane’s 290 civilian passengers. This shootdown of a civilian airliner by a US naval ship occurred on July 3, 1988, toward the end of the eight-year Iran-Iraq War.

FM Zarif says Iran to put up spirited resistance in face of US pressures

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says the Islamic Republic will continue to put up spirited resistance in the face of the United States’ “maximum pressure” campaign, just as it persevered during the 1980s Iran-Iraq war.

President Abbas rejects Trump’s Palestine deal as ‘humiliating blackmail’

Imam Khomeini considered unity as a prerequisite to saving Palestine

Imam Khomeini, the late founder of the Islamic Republic had considered the issue of Palestine as one that was related to the very existence of Islam, and stressed it was a problem which concerned the Islamic world as a whole.