Iran

“Freedom is a gift that too many of us take for granted.” That’s the message Morad Tahbaz shared upon his return to the United States after six years of being detained in Iran. Tahbaz, a British-American conservationist of Iranian descent who was arrested in 2018, is one of the five Americans who were flown out of Iran when Iran and the...

Two U.S. senators are urging the Biden administration to appeal to the Iraqi government to help secure the release of a Princeton University graduate student believed to have been abducted by an Iranian-backed militia in Iraq six months ago.

Americans detained for years in Iran arrived home Tuesday after being freed as part of a politically risky deal that saw President Joe Biden agree to the release of nearly $6 billion in frozen Iranian assets.

American prisoners freed from Iran arrive in the US

A Weston man and his wife are heading back home from Iran after the husband was detained for nearly six years and his wife was not allowed to leave Iran. Morad Tahbaz, a British-American conservationist of Iranian descent who was arrested in 2018, is one of the five Americans who were flown out of Iran when Iran and the United States…

The Americans include Siamek Namazi, imprisoned for nearly eight years, and Emad Shargi and Morad Tahbaz. The two other Americans haven’t been identified.

Iran on Tuesday identified the five prisoners it hopes to see freed in the United States in exchange for five Iranian-Americans now held in Tehran and billions in assets once held by South Korea.

The Biden administration has cleared the way for the release of five American citizens detained in Iran by issuing a blanket waiver for international banks to transfer $6 billion in frozen Iranian money in South Korea without fear of U.S. sanctions. Secretary of State Antony Blinken signed off on the move last week but Congress was not notified of the...

The complex deal was announced on Thursday when Iran moved four of the five Americans from prison to house arrest. Here’s what we know about the agreement.

Iran has transferred five Iranian-Americans from prison to house arrest, a move supporters hope is the first move toward their eventual release.

Iranian police have announced a new campaign to force women to wear the Islamic headscarf. Morality police returned to the streets on Sunday.

A 2021 audio recording appears to capture former President Donald Trump showing “highly confidential” military documents to an author, publisher and two Trump staffers at his golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey, acknowledging that it was not declassified and that he no longer had the authority to declassify it.

The U.S. Air Force on May 2 released rare images of the weapon, the GBU-57, known as the “Massive Ordnance Penetrator.” Then it took the photos down.

The administration has identified at least two American citizens wrongfully detained in Russia and three in Iran along with one legal permanent U.S. resident.

The U.S. Navy has dispatched a guided-missile submarine capable of carrying up to 154 Tomahawk missiles to the Middle East.

Iranian police say 110 suspects have been arrested in connection with the suspected poisoning of thousands of girls in schools across the country. Students say they have been sickened by noxious fumes in incidents dating back to November that have mainly occurred in girls’ schools. Authorities say they are investigating, but there has been no word on who might be...

Top state election and cybersecurity officials on Thursday warned about threats posed by Russia and other foreign adversaries ahead of the 2024 elections, noting that America’s decentralized system of thousands of local voting jurisdictions creates a particular vulnerability.

At least three U.S. citizens are being held by Tehran, along with an unknown number of legal U.S. residents.

Author Salman Rushdie, marking his return to the literary world after a violent attack last year that left him permanently injured, says he doesn’t want pity.

Local media are reporting that Iran has released a prominent actress nearly three weeks after she was jailed for expressing solidarity with a man who was executed over unrest linked to anti-government protests.