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Iran test-fires new missile: Revolutionary Guard head

Iran has test-fired a new missile, the commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, Maj. Gen. Hossein Salami, said Saturday, according to the Tasnim news agency. "Our country is always the arena for testing a variety of defense and strategic systems, and these are nonstop movements...

Iranian oil tanker pursued by US says going to Turkey

An Iranian-flagged oil tanker pursued by the U.S. amid heightened tensions between Tehran and Washington changed its listed destination to a port in Turkey early Saturday after Greece said it wouldn't risk its relations with America by aiding it. The crew of the Adrian Darya 1, formerly...

Iran's Zarif heading to Asia in push against US sanctions

Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif will head to East Asia on Sunday, his office said, as part of a diplomatic push to win relief from biting US sanctions. Zarif would visit China, Japan and Malaysia fresh on the heels of a tour of Western European nations, spokesman Abbas Mousavi...