Iran is ramping oil production back to record 2024 levels of around 4.3 million barrels per day, despite U.S. and Israeli airstrikes and ongoing sanctions. Russia is leading new development efforts in key shared oilfields like Changuleh, Cheshmeh-Khosh, and Arvand.

Iran's judicial news agency Mizan said one of the defendants was sentenced to six years in prison for spying for France, five years for conspiracy against national security and 20 years in exile for "intelligence co-operation" with Israel.

Iran finds itself at one of its weakest moments since its 1979 Islamic Revolution even as the wider Middle East broadly welcomes a ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza.

President Donald Trump says the strikes against Iranian nuclear sites were key to the Israel-Hamas deal following the release of 20 Israeli hostages from Gaza.

At various points during his speech, Trump turned to his first administration’s signature foreign-policy accomplishment: the normalization agreements between Israel and a handful of Arab states, known as the Abraham Accords. On Monday he pronounced it the Hebrew way, “Avraham.”

Tehran opens the Holy Virgin Mary Subway Station on Line 6, honoring cultural and religious heritage while improving public transit access.

UN Watch and human rights activists criticize the Human Rights Council's appointment of Iranian and Chinese officials as experts amid genocide allegations.

Donald Trump is a new fan of Qatar — but doesn't have his facts right when it comes to where the country is on a map. Speaking to reporters from the entrance of Air Force One on Sunday, October 12, the president of the United States made a geographical mistake about the Middle East ahead of his trip to Israel for the release of hostages from Gaza.