She returned home and largely vanished from public view, with some Persian-language media based outside Iran reporting she had been placed under house arrest and banned from competing abroad.

A Fresno poverty-fighting organization that administers the Head Start program nearly had to pay back more than $8 million in federal funds because of declining enrollment. The Office of Head ...

Ever since its revolution in 1979, Iran has cultivated a network of proxies and friends throughout the Middle East. For years, this strategy proved successful. Slowly but surely, Tehran’s “axis of ...

The Trump administration ended a waiver that allowed the Iraqi government to buy Iranian electricity in a renewed effort to choke off Iran's profits. National security advisor Mike Waltz told ...

A graduate of the London School of Economics, Amir has received multiple awards for his reporting, including his coverage of the Arab Spring and the 2021 Iranian elections. You can get in touch ...

Chinese naval forces will join warships from Iran and Russia in a trilateral exercise near Iran this week, according to authorities from all three nations. The joint naval exercises will take ...

Photo: Ritchie B Tongo/Shutterstock/Chris Kleponis/Bloomberg News President Trump says he’s written to Iran’s Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, whose regime insists sanctions relief precede any nuclear ...

The Trump administration rescinded a waiver on Saturday that had allowed Iraq to pay Iran for electricity, as part of President Donald Trump's "maximum pressure" campaign against Tehran ...

Iraq faces worsening power shortages after the US cuts waivers tied to Iranian gas and electricity imports. Despite its oil and gas wealth, Iraq has suffered from decades of electricity shortages ...

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei criticised "bullying governments" who "insist on negotiations". Iran's Supreme leader has criticised "bullying" countries in an apparent response to ...