AVATODAY

Iran's foreign minister, Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, told his French counterpart that Tehran "will vigorously continue boosting its defense power."

A former agent of Iran's Ministry of Intelligence, Akbar Khoshkushk, has claimed that the Paris-based dissident Iranian journalist Ruhollah Zam, who was executed last year in Iran following his abduction in Iraq, was traded in exchange for a high-ranking French officer.

According to Information received by Avatoday, some 1,500 asylum seekers from Iran, Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan are currently trapped at Belarusian and Polish border.

Iran's supreme court has issued death sentences against a 27-year-old and his 33-year-old lover for adultery, Iranian media reported on Saturday.

The Iranian military on Sunday has launched yearly exercises aimed at "responding to aggression," ahead of a scheduled meeting with EU and US representatives at the end of this month for nuclear deal talks.

Clash erupted between Iraqi police and hundreds of pro-Iran demonstrators, who took to the streets of Baghdad on Friday.

Iran has increased its stockpile of 60% enriched uranium to 25 kilograms (55 pounds), state media reported on Friday, further complicating the country’s troubled 2015 nuclear deal with World power.

The fate of Davood Rahimi, a 34-year-old Kurd from Naqadeh in northwest Iran, is still not known 63 days after his arrest by Iranian security forces.

An independent Kurdish group for human rights has revealed widespread torture carried out in “Revolutionary Guards and intelligence ministry’s secret detention centers” in Kurdish areas of Iran.

Mahmoud Nabavian, a hardliner Iranian MP said that Iran has expanded its border to Syria, Lebanon and Yemen.