Voting in Friday's election kicked off at 7 a.m. (0230GMT) and is expected to continue until midnight (1930GMT), with the possibility of two hours' extension. According to the Interior Ministry, around 59 million Iranians are eligible to vote this year, including 1.3 million first-time...

 Iranians voted Friday in a presidential election dominated by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's hard-line protege after the disqualification of his strongest competition, fueling apathy that left some polling places largely deserted despite pleas to support the Islamic Republic at...

   The fate of 63 officers and agents from the Intelligence Communications Department is still unknown since they were held in January 2020 following the death of Qasem Soleimani in Baghdad's U.S. strike, a military source told Zaman al-Wasl Wednesday.   At least...

A decaying oil tanker threatening to spill 1.1 million barrels of crude oil off Yemen’s coast is leaving the war-torn country at the risk of an environmental and humanitarian catastrophe. The Safer oil tanker has been moored in the Red Sea since Houthi rebels captured the coastal province...