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.

You can find her on X @afekki Languages: English. Arabic. French. Iran has warned it will respond firmly if the U.S. tries to impose demands on the Islamic Republic as it steps up pressure over ...

China, Iran and Russia have conducted joint naval drills in the Middle East TEHRAN, Iran -- China, Iran and Russia conducted joint naval drills Tuesday in the Middle East, offering a show of force ...

March 11 (Reuters) - President Masoud Pezeshkian said Iran would not negotiate with the U.S. while being threatened, telling President Donald Trump to "do whatever the hell you want", Iranian ...

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 ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Masih Alinejad, 48, a prominent Iranian American human rights activist gives an interview Press in Berlin ...

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 ...

President Trump said he is “not at all” worried that Russia, China and Iran are doing joint military exercises because the U.S. military he "rebuilt" is "stronger than all of them." ...

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 ...

US President Donald Trump said that he has written to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei about renegotiating a nuclear deal. “I’ve written them a letter, saying I hope you’re going to negotiate, ...

Warships from Iran, China and Russia kicked off their annual joint exercises in the Gulf of Oman on Monday, showing off their military ties as US President Donald Trump upends longstanding Western ...

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 ...