A court in Iran has sentenced two people to 10 years behind bars each over espionage charges, Judiciary Spokesman Gholam Hossein Mohseni-Ejei says.

Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani says the Israeli regime has been founded and continues to survive on terrorism.

A prominent industrial union in the United States has endorsed the international movement of Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) to support the Palestinians against Israel, calling on Washington to cut off financial support to Tel Aviv.

Daesh Takfiri terrorists have reportedly blown up parts of the ancient temple of Bel in the Syrian historical city of Palmyra.

“Imam Moussa as-Sadr behaved in a way that all stratums of the society including Christians and Muslims were attracted to him,” said President of Safiran Sobh (Ambassadors of Morning) Center.

South Africa has voiced interest in importing natural gas from Iran once the sanctions against the country are lifted, adding that it is even ready to participate in projects to liquefy natural gas in the Islamic Republic for the same purpose.

The Friday prayers’ leader of the Bahraini town of Diraz condemned the Bahraini regime’s interference in religious affairs and noted that restricting religious discourse is in violation of the teachings of the Holy Quran.

Iran’s Research Institute of Petroleum Industry (RIPI) is planning to hold the 2nd International Conference on Technological Opportunities (ICTO) in the Iranian oil and gas industry next month.

A senior Iranian official says certain countries in the Middle East are harboring fantasies about resurrecting long-defunct empires in the region.

Britain's largest oil and gas engineering company, Amec Foster Wheeler, has indicated its readiness to return to Iranian market as the outlook for the lifting of anti-Iran sanctions seems more promising.

A national conference on fighting extremism and terrorism kicked off in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad on Sunday, August 30.

Speaking about the importance of family's place in society, an Iranain cleric stated that the equality of men and women must be focused on issues such as morality, kind-dispossession and conduct, and not on the different roles men and women posses in the family, which must be preserved in order to prevent harm to the family unit.

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani says the nuclear agreement with the P5+1 group of countries has paved the way for the expansion of Iran’s relations with other countries.