The Latest Breaking News from Iran

US and Israel increase military readiness in response to potential threats from Iran.

Foreign minister’s rare visit to Tehran appears likely to fail given Iranian insistence on making a decisive response

Urgent calls for foreign nationals to leave Lebanon grew on Sunday with France warning of "a highly volatile" situation as Iran and its allies ready their response to high-profile killings blamed on Israel.

Jordan’s foreign minister is traveling to Iran on what would be the first official visit by a senior official of the close U.S. ally in two decades

Iran’s vow to avenge assassinations of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh and Hezbollah’s Fuad Shukr heightens fears of war.

The US leader has also bolstered his forces in the wider Middle East region

Beirut airport Sunday saw long queues of travellers looking to leave Lebanon after France, the US and the UK issued warnings to their citizens amid soaring regional tensions. Earlier, Hezbollah said it launched dozens of Katyusha rockets at Israel overnight while Yemen’s Houthi rebels struck a Liberian-flagged container ship in…

The assassination of a Hamas leader in Tehran humiliated Iran’s leaders, dashed hopes of a ceasefire and left the heavily armed nations of the Middle East moving inexorably closer to an all-out war they all claim not to want

Melbourne Theatre Company, The SumnerThe cast is uniformly excellent in Sanaz Toossi’s debut, about a teacher and her students in an English-language class in Iran