Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has threatened the European troops stationed in the region.

“Today, the American soldier is in danger, tomorrow the European soldier could be in danger,” the Iranian leader warned on Wednesday.

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Germany, France and the United Kingdom have launched a formal dispute mechanism against Iran which could end up putting international sanctions on the regime. The measure was announced on Tuesday following recent Iranian violations of the 2015 nuclear deal. The dispute will now be brought before a Joint Commission made up...

In the short run, the killing of Major General Qassem Soleimani, the commander of the Quds Force of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps., is a complete victory for Trump. The killing came after a long series of Iranian provocations over the past several months and years.

The killing of an American and...

President Donald Trump has rallied the support of the European and NATO allies in his remarks following the last night’s Iranian rocket attacks at U.S. bases in Iraq.

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Amid Iran’s plans to enrich weapons-grade uranium, Germany has vowed to “save” the faltering nuclear deal, the German foreign ministry declared on Monday.

The German statement comes as Tehran refused to abide by...

Iran-backed terrorist group Kata’ib Hizbollah has “vowed revenge” after the United State carried out airstrikes against its bases in Syria and Iraq, the news agency Reuters reported. Iran also warned of ‘consequences’ following the U.S. operation that took place on Sunday, media reports said.

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Tehran may have killed more than 1,000 protesters during the deadly clampdown against anti-regime protests, the U.S. State Department said. “As the truth is trickling out of Iran, it appears the regime could have murdered over a thousand Iranian citizens since the protests began,” the U.S. Special Representative for Iran, Brian...

Israel is set to present Iran’s violation of the nuclear agreement to the United Nations Security Council later this month, the country’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Israel Katz confirmed on Thursday.

“Iran is developing missiles capable of carrying a nuclear payload while violating UN Security Council resolutions,” he said.

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Six European countries have joined the European payment mechanism which seeks to bypass U.S. sanctions against Iran. “Belgium, Denmark, Finland, the Netherlands, Norway and Sweden are in the process of becoming shareholders of the Instrument in Support of Trade Exchanges (Instex),” the Government of Norway said in a statement...

Anti-regime protesters torched around 731 banks in nationwide unrest that began two weeks ago, Iran’s top leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei admitted. The demonstrations against the Shi’a Islamic regime started on November 15 after Tehran announced the rationing of gasoline and a sharp hike in fuel prices. Protesters also turned their anger...

Anti-regime protests erupted across Iran after the regime imposed rationing of gasoline and hiked fuel prices.

People took to streets in more than 100 cities, including the Iranian capital of Tehran. Iran’s so-called Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei lashed out at the people on Sunday for protesting the three-fold fuel price rise, calling...

The Iranian regime imposed rationing on gasoline and raised the price of fuel substantially as U.S. sanctions hit the state-controlled economy. The sudden announcement triggered anti-regime protests in several parts of the country, Reuters news agency reported.

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The Iranian economy could shrink by 9.5 percent in 2019 amid tighter U.S. sanctions, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) forecasts. The economic projection comes a month after President Donald Trump ordered the Treasury Department to “substantially increase” sanctions on Tehran.

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Echoing the sentiments of Democrats, a top Iranian official has threatened to “catch” President Donald Trump and “put him on trial” for unspecified actions against Iran and others.

The threat was made by Mohsen Rezaei, the former chief of the regime’s military arm, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).

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The United State has imposed sanctions on a leading Chinese state-owned company for importing Iranian oil. The sanctions placed by the U.S. State Department bar Zhuhai Zhenrong Corporation, one of China’s largest state-run oil companies, from “engaging in foreign exchange, banking or property transactions under US jurisdiction,” London-based Financial ...

Earlier this week, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif justified Iran’s violation of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of  Action (JCPOA) by increasing its stockpile of enriched uranium above the limit set by the deal.

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As Iran breaches the limit on its enriched uranium stockpile set under the 2015 nuclear deal, European powers scramble to appease the regime.

The European Union has started processing payments to Iran under a new trading mechanism, German media reports confirmed. While French President Emmanuel Macron is expected to rush to Tehran...