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

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

A U.S. special operations team boarded a ship in the Indian Ocean last month and seized military-related articles headed to Iran from China, U.S. officials said, an operation at sea aimed at blocking ...

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 ...

US military boarded a cargo ship from China to Iran in November, seizing dual-use materials and highlighting aggressive enforcement of sanctions.

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 ...

Iran is ramping oil production back to record 2024 levels of around 4.3 million barrels per day, despite U.S. and Israeli airstrikes and ongoing sanctions. Russia is leading new development efforts in ...

(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 ...