Chinese President Xi Jinping and Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei met here Saturday, pledging to beef up practical cooperation between the two countries and jointly safeguard security, peace and stability in the region and around the world.
The White House said Tuesday the U.S. has reason to believe that missing former FBI agent Robert Levinson is no longer in Iran.
India is looking to recalibrate its Middle East policy, taking into account the myriad changes afoot in the region.
With fresh sanctions imposed on Iran, the United States has shown that its deeply-rooted hostility toward the Middle East country still remains despite the implementation of a landmark agreement on Tehran's nuclear program.
Iran would manage to decrease tensions with the West "gradually" after the international deal on Tehran's nuclear program started to be implemented and Western sanctions were removed, an Iranian expert said.
Pakistan's Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and powerful army chief General Raheel Sharif are set to embark on an important visit to Iran and Saudi Arabia on Monday to reduce tensions between the two rival Muslim nations, his office has said.
U.S. President Barack Obama on Sunday hailed the full implementation of an international nuclear accord with Iran and the release of Americans held prisoner in the Islamic Republic as a vindication of "strong American diplomacy".
The United States announced on Sunday new sanctions relating to Iran's ballistic missile program, a day after the Obama administration lifted sanctions on Iran's nuclear program.
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on Sunday hailed the lift of nuclear-related sanctions on the Islamic Republic by the United States and European Union after the UN nuclear watchdog confirmed Tehran's commitments to the July deal.
Iranian authorities on Wednesday released 10 U.S. sailors held a day earlier over violating the country's waters, Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) said.
Iran will hold massive navy drills in the northern areas of Indian Ocean in the coming days, a senior Iranian navy commander said Sunday.
The ongoing standoff between Saudi Arabia and Iran, both regional powers, is exacerbating an already deep sectarian division and risking imploding the region coping with a plethora of crises, analysts say.
Saudi Arabia's execution on Saturday of Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr, an outspoken Shi'ite cleric who called for the overthrow of the Saudi royal family, triggered international condemnation and set off protests throughout the Middle East.
U.S. President Barack Obama on Wednesday urged Turkey to withdraw any unauthorized military forces from Iraq, the White House said.
In a significant escalation of tensions, Saudi Arabia cut ties with Iran and expelled its diplomats on Sunday (Jan 3), a day after its embassy in Teheran was attacked to protest Riyadh's execution of prominent Shi'ite cleric Sheikh Nimr atl-Nimr.
The escalation of tensions between Saudi Arabia and Iran against the backdrop of the Saudi execution of a prominent Saudi Shiite cleric could negatively rebound on the efforts for establishing a peace process in Syria, analysts here said.
Iran's leaders on Sunday strongly condemned the execution of prominent Shiite cleric Nimr al-Nimr by Saudi Arabia.
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