Iran war news highlights: The US has imposed sanctions on eight vessels accused of helping transport Iranian crude oil and petroleum products. Among the ships named were the Marshall Islands-flagged tanker Flora,

On the evening of March 7, 2026, a series of explosions and fires occurred at multiple oil storage and refining facilities in Tehran, Iran. A research team has utilized a constellation of satellites to investigate and quantify this sulfur dioxide (SO₂) pollution event.

Pakistan army chief Asim Munir arrives in Tehran as mediation efforts to secure a US-Iran peace deal intensify.

Bands and orchestras have begun returning to the stage in Tehran, where musicians have struggled to find work since war with the U.S. and Israel broke out in late February. The tenuous ceasefire in

An anonymous Iranian woman has bravely stepped forward on the international stage to describe what's really happening on the ground in Tehran as President Donald Trump's two-week ceasefire with Iran tentatively began Tuesday. In an essay published in The ...

For almost a month now, a twenty-eight-year old Iranian writer in Tehran has been sharing her diary entries with NPR. The entries give us a view of the war from inside Iran as it is being lived. This is her second dispatch and she expresses the complicated ...

A moderate earthquake shook Tehran, a city on edge after months of war, with residents in different parts of the city saying they felt the ground jolt and roll around midnight. Te

Donald Trump successfully lured the U.S. media into publishing headlines about another imminent peace deal with Iran over Memorial Day weekend, only for the deal to fall apart yet again and the days