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Iran

  • Sunday, 1 June, 2025
    News in-depthUS-Iran tensions
    Military briefing: How Iran is preparing for Israeli or US strikes

    Tehran is rebuilding air defences hit by Israel last year as threat of new attacks looms

    A Tehran woman walks past a banner showing Iranian missile launches
  • Saturday, 31 May, 2025
    Iran nuclear deal
    Iran has increased enriched uranium by 50%, says UN watchdog

    IAEA findings raise new concerns over country’s capabilities amid nuclear talks between Tehran and Washington

    Members of the Iranian delegation leave the Omani embassy where the fifth round of US-Iran talks took place in Rome on May 23
  • Wednesday, 28 May, 2025
    US foreign policy
    Trump warns Netanyahu not to strike Iran as US holds talks with Tehran

    American president’s comments signal tensions with ally Israel

    Donald Trump
  • Thursday, 22 May, 2025
    Michelle Wiese Bockmann
    A flagless fleet is threatening the seas

    Western governments must tackle the maritime lawlessness their sanctions helped create

    Aerial view of the silhouette of a crane lifting containers into a transport ship
  • Tuesday, 20 May, 2025
    US-Iran tensions
    Iran leader says he does not expect results from US talks

    Comments damp expectations of breakthrough to end long-running crisis over Tehran’s nuclear programme

    Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei waves during a meeting in Tehran on Tuesday
  • Sunday, 18 May, 2025
    Israel-Hamas war
    Israel to allow ‘basic’ aid into Gaza as military expands operations

    Decision will end an almost three-month blockade that has stopped food and medicine entering Palestinian enclave

    A woman holds her head at a funeral for Palestinians killed in Israeli strikes
  • Saturday, 17 May, 2025
    News in-depth
    Iran steps up mass deportation of Afghan migrants

    Islamic republic wants to return millions of refugees who entered country before and after the Taliban takeover

    Afghan migrants carrying their belongings disembark from a bus in Islam Qala, Afghanistan after being deported from Iran in February 2025
  • Saturday, 17 May, 2025
    UK
    UK charges three Iranians under National Security Act

    Accused allegedly assisted a foreign intelligence service, Metropolitan Police say

    Exterior of New Scotland Yard
  • Friday, 16 May, 2025
    Houthi movement
    Israel launches new round of strikes against Houthis in Yemen

    Bombing of two ports comes after rebels repeatedly fired missiles into Israel despite truce with US

    Yemenis demonstrate in Sana'a on Friday to show their solidarity with the Palestinians in Gaza
  • Thursday, 15 May, 2025
    US-Iran tensions
    Oil prices fall on Trump’s Iran deal comments

    Drop comes as US president says ‘serious negotiations’ are under way with Tehran

    Oil pumpjacks operate at dusk Willow Springs Park in Long Beach, California
  • Wednesday, 14 May, 2025
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    Europe needs smart rearmament

    Nato must develop a nimbler technological edge than during the cold war

    Ukrainian Army carry a Vampire hexacopter drone
  • Tuesday, 13 May, 2025
    US-Iran tensions
    US puts sanctions on companies alleged to be shipping Iranian oil to China

    Measures come as Donald Trump offers olive branch to regime in Tehran

    A gas flare on an oil production platform is seen alongside an Iranian flag in the Gulf
  • Monday, 12 May, 2025
    OutlookNajmeh Bozorgmehr
    Tehran adopts modern café society

    Young Iranians are embracing the rest of the world, one pastry at a time

    Iranian pastry chef Shahrzad Shokouhivand works behind the counter at her luxury pastry shop in Tehran
  • Sunday, 11 May, 2025
    News in-depthUS-Iran tensions
    The Iranian war veteran leading nuclear talks with the US

    Foreign minister Abbas Araghchi has become one of the most influential people in the Islamic republic

    A montage of the Iranian flag and Abbas Araghchi
  • Friday, 9 May, 2025
    Middle East war
    UN officials fear funding cuts if they do not join US-led Gaza aid plan

    Washington-backed initiative would funnel aid into enclave with assistance of US private military contractors

    A Palestinian rides a bicycle past the UNRWA headquarters in Gaza City
  • Wednesday, 7 May, 2025
    Terrorism in UK
    Iranian terror suspects ‘targeted Israeli embassy in London’

    Cell was in final stages of planning for attack on Israeli diplomatic mission, people familiar with investigation say 

    A view of signage at New Scotland Yard in London, Britain
  • Tuesday, 6 May, 2025
    Terrorism in UK
    UK to discuss terror arrests with Iranian ambassador

    Police arrested two groups of Iranians in separate operations at the weekend

    Dan Jarvis giving a statement on Iranian terrorist arrests in the House of Commons on Tuesday
  • Tuesday, 6 May, 2025
    Israel-Hamas war
    Israel ‘disables’ Yemen’s main airport with air strikes

    Attacks come in retaliation after Houthi missile hits Ben Gurion airport on Sunday

    Smoke billows on the horizon following an Israeli air strike on Yemen’s Houthi-held capital Sana'a
  • Monday, 5 May, 2025
    Houthi movement
    Israeli warplanes strike Houthi targets in Yemen

    Israel Defense Forces retaliate after militant group’s missile attack on Ben Gurion airport

    Firefighters in protective gear work to extinguish a large blaze at a cement factory
  • Sunday, 4 May, 2025
    Israel-Hamas war
    Israel vows to hit back against Iran and Houthis after airport attack

    Tensions surge across Middle East as missile fired by Yemen militant group lands near Ben Gurion airport

    Israeli soldiers patrol around a position along Israel’s southern border with the Gaza Strip
  • Friday, 2 May, 2025
    Middle East war
    Israel strikes near Syria’s presidential palace in ‘message’ to Sharaa

    Benjamin Netanyahu says attack was warning to Damascus over threats to Druze minority

    Ahmed al-Sharaa during a press conference
  • Thursday, 1 May, 2025
    US-Iran tensions
    Trump says he will impose secondary sanctions on buyers of Iran’s oil

    Crude prices rise after US president intensifies pressure on Tehran as nuclear talks falter

    A gas flare on an oil production platform is seen alongside an Iranian flag in the Gulf
  • Thursday, 1 May, 2025
    Middle East war
    Trump’s bombing campaign against Houthis tests his vow to ‘stop wars’

    The US is conducting its largest bombardment since the war on Isis — with no clear endgame

    A drone view shows charred vehicles standing in the aftermath of what Al Masirah TV said was a US strike on the Ras Isa fuel port, Al Jazirah, Yemen in April 2025
  • Wednesday, 30 April, 2025
    US-Iran tensions
    Iran executes alleged Mossad spy as concern grows over Israeli sabotage

    Tehran imposes death penalty on man amid fears Israel is seeking to derail nuclear talks with US

    People in Iran burn an Israel flag
  • Tuesday, 29 April, 2025
    News in-depth
    Iranians face a sinking feeling as ground under Tehran cracks open

    Country among worst affected by subsidence, threatening heritage sites and spurring suggestions to move the capital

    fissure caused by drought and excessive water pumping in Malard, west of Tehran, Iran.
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