Iran

Iran

Fire engulfs Tehran hospital, no casualties

State media reported that a huge fire broke out at a hospital in Iran's capital Tehran.

26/01/2024

Iran

Iran launches satellite - part of a Western-criticised programme

The launch comes as regional tensions spike across the Middle East.

20/01/2024

Iran

Could the Pakistan-Iran airstrikes be start of regional escalation?

Eleven people have been killed this week in airstrikes by Iran and Pakistan - what is behind them and what could it mean for the future?

18/01/2024

Iran

Pakistan launches retaliatory airstrikes against Iran

In a Middle East already unsettled by the Israel Hamas war, the spectre of regional conflict is growing.

18/01/2024

Iran

Islamic State 'claims responsibility' for Iran bombing that killed 84

Once-powerful group has made something of a return with a string of attacks of varying size in different countries.

04/01/2024

Iran

Iran: At least 95 killed in blasts at ceremony for slain general

Qassim Soleimani, the head of the Revolutionary Guard's elite Quds Force, died in a US drone strike in Iraq in January 2020.

03/01/2024

Iran

Iran summons Russian envoy over Persian Gulf islands dispute

Iran summoned the Russian envoy to Tehran after Moscow and Arab countries released a joint statement earlier this week challenging Iran’s claim to disputed islands in the Persian Gulf, state media reported Sunday.

24/12/2023

Iran

Fears grow for Iran protesters amid record executions

The Islamic Republic was shaken by the largest - and most significant - wave of anti-government dissent in decades last year.

21/12/2023

Iran

Iran accuses Swedish EU diplomat of conspiring with Israel

Floderus is on trial for "corruption on earth", one of the most serious charges in Iran, which carries the death penalty.

11/12/2023

Iran

Iran claims a new ballistic missile can travel at hypersonic speeds

Iran has unveiled the Fattah-2, a new Iranian-produced ballistic missile which it claims can travel at hypersonic speeds.

19/11/2023

Iran

Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi on hunger strike

Iranian Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi started a hunger strike on Monday after being denied medical care in prison.

06/11/2023

Iran

Iran arrests rights lawyer after she attends Armita Geravanad funeral

On Saturday, rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh — known for defending activists, opposition politicians and women in Iran prosecuted for removing their headscarves — called the death of Geravand “another state murder.”

30/10/2023

Iran

Iranian girl injured on Tehran metro while not wearing headscarf dies

The official version is Armita Geravand fainted and hit her head, but there are rumours she was assaulted on the train for not wearing a headscarf.

28/10/2023

Iran

Iranian teenager 'brain dead' after hijab law subway incident

Iranian teenager is now declared "brain dead" by Iranian state media after slipping into a coma earlier this month during a reported incident with officers regarding the country's hijab law violation.

23/10/2023

Iran

Two Iranian journalists sentenced for 'collaborating with US'

Niloufar Hamedi and Elaheh Mohammadi have been given prison terms of up to seven years each - a move that has triggered international criticism.

22/10/2023

Iran

Experts: nobody wants a big war in the Middle East

Iran has threatened to 'intervene in the conflict' if Israel launches a ground operation in the Gaza Strip. Euronews spoke to experts about what this 'intervention' might be and its consequences.

18/10/2023

Iran

'Unbearable' alleged assault on Iran teen condemned in Europe

"Once again a young woman in Iran is fighting for her life. Just because she showed her hair on the subway," wrote German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock.

05/10/2023

Iran

Americans fly out of Iran after $6 billion prisoner swap deal with US

Some experts believe the deal signifies an easing of tensions between Tehran and Washington.

18/09/2023

Iran

How has Mahsa Amini's death impacted Iran?

The 22-year-old's death on 16 September sparked one of the largest - and most significant - waves of dissent to shake the Islamic Republic in years.

16/09/2023

Iran

Euroviews. Water woes could pave the way for improved EU-Iran relations

The bigger picture that the EU needs to consider if it wants to devise an effective and comprehensive strategy towards Iran is one of a country facing a fundamental political, economic, environmental, societal, and demographic crisis, Cornelius Adebahr writes.

29/08/2023

Iran

Euroviews. The West turned its gaze away from Iran. The cruelties continued

More than 30 years ago, the regime in Tehran tried to silence me. My heart aches for the young women imprisoned and still suffering in Iran today, Nasrin Parvaz writes.

28/07/2023

Culture news

Explained: Why the hijab is crucial to Iran's Islamic rulers

Iran's morality police have resumed street patrols to ensure women wear hijabs, nearly a year since Mahsa Amini died in police custody. Protests have since diminished but authorities are now threatening to arrest any woman flouting Islamic headscarf rules.

18/07/2023

Iran

Europe's nuclear deal hindered by Russia's invasion of Ukraine

How much of an impact has the outbreak of the war in Ukraine had on Europe’s already weak nuclear deal with Iran? And what kind of future agreement could be on the cards for Europe and Iran?

17/07/2023

Iran

Iran puts morality police back on the streets in dress code crackdown

The morality police had largely pulled back following the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini last September.

17/07/2023

Iran

Iran releases three European prisoners

Two Austrian-Iranian citizens and a Danish man were released from prison in Iran.

03/06/2023

Iran

Iran unveils its latest missile that it says can reach Israel

Iran has unveiled its latest ballistic missile as tensions with the West continue over its nuclear programme.

25/05/2023