China’s backing of the UAE in a long-standing territorial dispute over three Persian Gulf islands has unsettled Tehran.

A U.S. special operations team boarded a ship in the Indian Ocean last month and seized cargo headed to Iran from China, a ...

Sahand 2025” marks a major milestone in Tehran’s integration into the Shanghai Cooperation Organization – and in its pursuit ...

China has rattled Tehran by again backing the United Arab Emirates’s claim over three Persian Gulf islands controlled by Iran ...

China has rattled Tehran by again backing the United Arab Emirates’s claim over three Persian Gulf islands controlled by Iran ...

Iran’s setbacks in 2025 should not lull US policymakers into thinking that Tehran is finished with destabilizing the region.

A seized tanker accused of smuggling sanctioned oil has long hidden its true location. BBC Verify examines how.

After the fall of the Soviet Union, a shared Persianate cultural heritage did not translate into Iranian influence in Central ...

Welcome back to The Farda Briefing, an RFE/RL newsletter that tracks the key issues in Iran and explains why they matter. I'm RFE/RL correspondent Kian Sharifi. In this edition, I'm looking into how ...

China’s inroads in the Middle East demonstrate how the region is still a critical front in the era of US-China competition.

(CNN) — Iran appears to be stepping up the rebuilding of its ballistic missile program, despite the reintroduction last month of United Nations sanctions that ban arms sales to the country and ...