The helicopter crash that killed Iran’s president and foreign minister has sent shock waves around the region.

A day after parliamentary election concluded in Iran, hard-liners are leading in initial vote counting in the capital of Tehran, state media reported.

Iran’s Defense Ministry has unveiled a drone resembling America’s armed MQ-9 Reaper, claiming that the aircraft is capable of staying airborne for 24 hours and has the range to reach the country's archenemy Israel.

The Taliban and Iran have exchanged heavy gunfire on the Islamic Republic’s border with Afghanistan.

Iran's state-run IRNA news agency says authorities have executed four people accused of working for Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency.

Gunmen have attacked a major Shiite holy site in Iran, killing at least 15 people and wounding dozens.

A huge fire blazed at a notorious Iranian prison where political prisoners and anti-government activists are kept in the capital.

Iran’s official IRNA news agency reports that an attack by armed separatists on a police station in a southeastern city has killed 19 people, including four members of Iran’s elite Islamic Revolutionary Guard.

Diplomats say talks to revive Tehran’s tattered nuclear accord with world powers in Vienna have ended as the parties closed a final text and key negotiators prepared to consult with their capitals.

Iran’s state-run news agency says the country’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard has launched a second reconnaissance satellite into space.

Websites of Iran’s transport and urbanization ministry have gone out of service after a “cyber disruption” in computer systems of its staff.

Gov. Jay Inslee said Saturday that inoculations with the Johnson & Johnson vaccine can begin in Washington state following a review by scientific experts in a western states work group.

TEHRAN Iran on Sunday confirmed that a damaged building at the underground Natanz nuclear site was a new centrifuge assembly center, the official IRNA news agency reported. A spokesman for Irans nuclear agency, Behrouz Kamalvandi, said Sunday that work had begun on the center in 2013 and it was inaugurated in 2018. Iran began experimenting with advanced centrifuge models in the wake of the U.S. unilaterally withdrawing from the deal two years ago. Two U.S.-based analysts who spoke to The Associated Press on Friday, relying on released pictures and satellite images, identified the affected building as Natanzs new Iran Centrifuge Assembly Center. Currently, the IAEA says Iran enriches uranium to about 4.5% purity above the terms of the nuclear deal but far below weapons-grade levels of 90%.

Iran's state media are reporting an explosion on an Iranian oil tanker in the Red Sea near the port of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia - An oil tanker belonging to the National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC) was damaged by an explosion on Friday, Iranian state news IRNA reported. The tanker was 60 miles (96 kilometers) from the Saudi port of Jeddah on the Red Sea when the explosion occurred, damaging its structure, IRNA reported. Iran's Press TV also tweeted Friday: "Report: Explosion in #Iranian tanker has set vessel on fire near #Saudi port city of #Jeddah." The vessel was eventually released from the Iranian port of Bandar Abbas in late September.