Topic: Abbas Mousavi

For at least three decades, Lebanon has been under the vice-like grip of Hezbollah, an Iranian-backed Shi'ia terrorist organization.

Iran says a pair of U.S. warplanes harassed an Iranian airliner after it left Tehran late Thursday bound for Lebanon.

The Trump administration has sanctioned the captains of five tankers for shipping Iranian gasoline to Venezuela, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said, as the United States continues to pressure both adversary nations.

An Iranian scientist held in the United States for months after he was acquitted in a trade secrets case has been deported and sent back to Iran, officials in Tehran said Tuesday.

Deaths from COVID-19 in China continue to rise -- as of Monday there were 77,362 cases and 2,618 deaths -- and there have been more than 2,000 cases and 23 deaths confirmed across 28 other countries.

The U.S. Treasury has imposed fiscal sanctions against Iran's nuclear energy chief and ordered his U.S.-linked assets frozen, amid ongoing tensions between the Washington, D.C., and Tehran.

Deadly weekend airstrikes carried out by U.S. forces against members of an Iranian-backed Iraqi militia were condemned Monday by the governments of both Iran and Iraq.

Iranian foreign ministry spokesman Abbas Mousavi on Thursday called on Iraqi authorities to respond "responsibly, firmly and effectively" to Wednesday's attack on the Iranian consulate in Najaf.

Thousands demonstrated in Iran's capital Monday to support the government after outcry and rioting broke out due to an increase in gasoline prices.

An Iranian official responded Monday to a European Union warning that it would withdraw from the 2015 nuclear deal if Iran continues on its path away from the deal, calling such a move illegal.