With the 2026 FIFA World Cup now right around the corner, the list of teams to have qualified for the competition is beginning to fill up, but political conflict has seemingly presented a roadblock to the participation of one qualifier.
The Fars news agency, which is affiliated with Iran's Revolutionary Guards, identified them as Cécile Kohler and Jacques Paris. France has called the accusations against them baseless.
A deep sense of unease has gripped Iran since American and Israeli airstrikes in June, but on a recent visit to the capital, we found that many Iranians seemed to be just trying to get by.
The enduring animosity between the United States and Iran is reflected inside the walls of the former U.S. embassy in Tehran, now turned into a museum of anti-American propaganda. U.S. involvement in the June Iran-Israel war has resurfaced that ...
Decades of mismanagement, underinvestment and corruption have strained the power grid of Iraq, which is OPEC's second-largest producer after Saudi Arabia.