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At least 19 Iranian sailors were killed and 15 injured in an incident during an exercise, the military has confirmed. Earlier unofficial reports said that an Iranian frigate accidentally fired a missile at a naval support vessel.

Iran says it is ready for unconditional prisoner swap talks with the United States because of fears that the coronavirus could put the lives of the prisoners at risk, Iranian media reported Sunday.

Iran has summoned the Swiss ambassador in Tehran, who represents US interests in the country, over recent Gulf tensions, Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman Abbas Mousavi said on Thursday, according to the IRIB news agency.

Iran's Islamic Revolution Guard Corps (IRGC) claims it has successfully launched a military satellite into orbit for the first time.

President Donald Trump has ordered the US Navy to “shoot down and destroy” Iranian gunboats, should they harass American vessels at sea. His declaration comes after a confrontation in the Persian Gulf.

Former FBI agent Robert Levinson, who disappeared in Iran 13 years ago, has died in custody there, according to statement from his family.

Washington’s offers to help Tehran against the deadly Covid-19 disease are disingenuous, because it is the US sanctions that undermine people’s access to medical care, Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani has said.

The country's death toll from Covid-19 has now reached 853 in total, with 129 new deaths in the past 24 hours, a health ministry official tweeted on Monday.

The coronavirus outbreak in Iran is spreading rapidly, with more than 8000 people infected. And now a “fake cure” has killed dozens.

Iranian authorities have announced that the plane crash they initially blamed on a mechanical failure was in fact shot down as a result of “human error,” according to state TV.

The Trump administration on Friday announced new sanctions on Iran in response to this week's missile strikes on Iraqi bases housing US and allied troops. 

The U.S. believes that a Ukrainian commercial aircraft that crashed shortly after takeoff from Tehran, killing all on board, was downed by two surface-to-air missiles fired by Iran, a U.S. official said. The downing may have been a

Remarkably, no Americans or Iraqis were killed in the missile strikes that rocked the world yesterday. Now we know one key reason why.

US President Donald Trump said Wednesday that Iran appears to be “standing down” and said no Americans or Iraqis were harmed in Iran's ballistic missile strike on two Iraqi bases housing US troops.

Iran will not provide Boeing with the black box of a Ukrainian 737 that crashed near Tehran, the country’s civil aviation authority has said. An investigation into the accident is ongoing.

Multiple Iranian agencies reported on the crash, blaming unspecified “technical problems.”

U.S. says few, if any, casualties after Iran missile strikes

The Iranian government has taken responsibility for a series of rockets that were fired at an Iraqi base hosting American soldiers.

Multiple rockets have reportedly struck an Iraqi base hosting American soldiers, as tensions between Iran and the US continue to grow.

Decision marks latest step to scale back compliance, comes as huge crowds mourn military leader killed in U.S. airstrike