Iran

Shahid Rajaee is a large Iranian container facility that handles 80m tonnes of goods a year

The scope is perhaps too broad, and the prose a little dry, for this book to appeal to the general reader

Netherlands’ intelligence agency points finger at Iran for attempts to kill activist and Spanish former MEP

Third round of talks between Tehran and Washington due to be held on Saturday in Oman

An unforgiving conflict between rival military factions has killed 150,000 people. Another 12 million people are displaced, many fleeing to a huge desert camp in eastern Chad. Photographs by Chris Maddaloni

Negotiators are lowering any expectations of a swift breakthrough in the decades-long dispute ahead of talks between the US and Iran in Rome

Rafael Grossi has warned that Tehran could be close to having the capacity to manufacture nuclear weapons

European telecoms firms are working with entity likely linked to Islamic Revolutionary Guard, company claims

Israeli sources fear the US position in the talks with Iran may fall short of the 2003 deal with Libya, under which Tripoli agreed to dismantle its nuclear weapons

Countries began high-level talks in Oman on Saturday

Iran enters discussions in a position of weakness following a series of reverses

US president says ‘very high level’ talks will take place on Saturday

US president says he prefers a deal over military confrontation

US president says Middle East country ‘cannot have a nuclear weapon’

US president said Iran could face ‘bombing the likes of which they have never seen before’

Reformist president Masoud Pezeshkian’s hopes for detente with West in tatters as rival factions tighten grip on power

Nearly every second adult in countries across the world thinks it is job done on female equality, which it patently is not

Beijing and Moscow keen to show mutual co-operation will not be affected by Trump’s embrace of Putin

Flights to Beirut fully booked as thousands arrive from around the world, including Irish 'activists'

The author is concerned about a potential three-way arms race between the US, Russia and China and a greater willingness to consider a ‘limited’ use of nuclear weapons

Militant leader killed in September when Israeli air force dropped more than 80 bombs on Hizbullah’s Beirut hub

Attack occurred more than 30 years after Rushdie was first placed under ‘fatwa’ by Iranian religious leaders

Netanyahu again describes US president as the greatest friend Israel has had in the White House

US president dismisses reports that United States and Israel planned to ‘blow Iran to smithereens’ as ‘greatly exaggerated’

A taut thriller that unfolds against the backdrop of an increasingly draconian Iranian regime

The nail-biting thriller is one of the most-lauded films of the past year - and making it involved secret shoots as well as interrogation by Iranian authorities

West Bank at risk of even more violence, and events in Gaza, Lebanon and Syria have significantly weakened Iranian regime

Private enterprise controls oil and may not share US president’s enthusiasm for increased production

Palestinians have cause for increased concern

The judges had long been involved in ‘national security cases, including espionage and terrorism’

Closer military, energy and other co-operation planned under 20-year pact between Moscow and Tehran

Analysts and former officials warn that the Houthis, situated 2,000km away, are a vastly different and more complex challenge than adversaries closer to home

One of the first tasks of the new government will be how to persuade the incoming Trump administration that Ireland is not a soft touch

Year-on-year rise in executions ‘deeply disturbing’, says UN human rights commissioner Volker Türk

In the space of a single year, the Islamic Republic of Iran effectively lost three of the key elements in its so-called axis of resistance

Belfast man kidnapped by Islamic Jihad in 1986 in Beirut during Lebanese civil war

Government going ahead with plan despite concerns over Iran’s human rights record

Paramedics treating people for minor injuries with some taken to hospital, says ambulance service

As China and Russia weigh up their options in anticipation of Donald Trump’s second presidency, horrified countries in the Global South see Gaza as an emblem of US and European double standards

Iran reported to be willing to permit inspections in bid to forestall attack