Tehran has appointed a new CEO to head national airline Iran Air, state news reported, replacing its first female CEO with a US-blacklisted pilot. Touraj Dehghani Zanganeh, a former air force commander who features on a US Treasury sanctions list, was named for the post at a Sunday cabinet meeting.

Iran Air appoints new US-sanctioned CEO

The man who carried out a suicide bombing which killed 27 members of Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards near the border with Pakistan last week was Pakistani, a senior Revolutionary Guards commander said on Tuesday, according to the Tasnim news agency.

Suicide bomber who killed 27 elite guards was from Pakistan: Iran's Guards commander

Iran's president on Monday insisted "enemy" plots against the country would fail as vast crowds marked 40 years since the Islamic revolution at a time of heightened tensions with the United States.

Mammoth crowds mark 40th anniversary of Iran revolution

Iran on Tuesday dismissed pressure from France and other Western powers for talks over its ballistic missile programme, but said it had no plans to increase the range of the weapons.

Iran rejects talks on missiles, but says no plan to increase range

Iran has accused France of being a destabilising force in the region after its foreign minister threatened new sanctions against Tehran over its missile programme.

Iran accuses France of 'destabilising' region after French foreign minister threatens sanctions

Chabahar is back in the news after a hiatus of about two years. The contexts of its importance are several but the first one in the current milieu is the fact that despite President Donald Trump’s avowed sanctions on everything related to Iran, India’s Chabahar-based relationship with Tehran has received a waiver.

Iran: A port of call for India

US warns Iran against its upcoming space launches

Iran said Monday that the Afghan Taliban have visited Tehran for a second round of peace talks in just a few days aimed at bringing an end to 17 years of conflict.

Iran says Afghan Taliban were in Tehran for peace talks

A British-Iranian academic who had been detained in Iran on security charges has returned to the United Kingdom, the BBC reported on Tuesday. Abbas Edalat, a computer science and mathematics professor at Imperial College London, was detained in Tehran in April.

British professor returns to UK after detention in Iran: BBC

Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on Friday said that US accusations that Tehran has a chemical weapons programme were "obscene and dangerous". × The US allegations are the latest salvo against Iran from the administration of President Donald Trump, who earlier this year pulled out of a landmark 2015 nuclear deal between major powers and Tehran and reimposed crippling unilateral sanctions.

Iran says US accusing Tehran of having chemical weapons programme is 'obscene and dangerous'

The United States will confront Tehran at the UN's top court on Monday over billions in frozen assets, in a case that could deepen the Trump administration's rift with international justice.

United States in new global court showdown with Iran

The Trump administration is actively considering waivers on sanctions it will reimpose next month for countries that are reducing their imports of Iranian oil, a US government official said on Friday.

US govt actively considering waivers on Iran oil sanctions

France accused Iran's intelligence ministry on Tuesday of being behind a foiled plot to bomb an exiled opposition group near the French capital in a move that risks straining already complicated ties between Paris and Tehran.

France accuses Iran over bomb plot near Paris, Tehran denies allegations 

The US is not interested in regime change in Tehran, but wants it to change its behaviour and stop continuing with their terror threats to the world, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Friday as he described Iran as the world's "largest state sponsor of terror".

Not interested in regime change but want Iran to change its behaviour: Pompeo

Amirani said that five Memorandum of Understandings (MoU) were signed between the two countries in Tehran during Sirisena's visit

Iran invites Sri Lanka for Joint Economic Commission talks in Tehran

Trump has consistently threatened to pull out of the 2015 agreement because it does not address Iran's ballistic missile program or its role in wars in Syria and Yemen.

What will happen to West Asia if Trump pulls out of Iran nuclear deal?

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has warned that the US will face “historic regret” if Donald Trump scraps a nuclear agreement with Tehran.

Iran’s Hassan Rouhani warns Donald Trump of ‘historic regret’ over nuclear deal

Donald Trump has said that unless European allies fix what he has called "terrible flaws" in the deal by May 12, he will restore U.S. economic sanctions on Iran, which would be a severe blow to the pact

Iran warns Trump to remain in the nuclear deal or to 'face severe consequences': State TV

Increased tension between Tehran and Riyadh has fuelled speculation that shared interests may push Saudi Arabia and Israel to work together against what they see as a common Iranian threat

Palestinians 'have the right to their own land', says Saudi Crown Prince

Zarif, at present, is on a three-day visit to Islamabad which will come to an end today

Iran expresses willingness to resolve differences with Saudi Arabia

The Aseman Airlines flight from Tehran crashed on Sunday 50 minutes into its journey to the southwestern city of Yasuj

Iran finds wreckage of crashed plane on top of mountain

Footage shown on state television appeared to show the moment the bus ploughed into a group of police officers in northern Tehran

Three policemen killed in Sufi protests in Iran

Holding a piece of what he said was an Iranian drone after its incursion into Israeli airspace earlier this month, Netanyahu told the Munich Security Conference: "Israel will not allow the regime to put a noose of terror around our neck.

Benjamin Netanyahu could act against Iran's 'empire'

Rouhani has been an important player in Iran's political setting right from the days of the Iranian revolution of 1979.

Hasan Rouhani: Iran's 'Diplomatic Sheikh'

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