Reuters - An Iranian passenger plane that was approached by U.S. fighter jets in Syrian airspace has landed back in Tehran, the Fars news agency reported on Friday. The approach of the fighter jets caused the pilot of the passenger plane to change altitude quickly which injured several passengers, the official IRIB news agency reported. Reporting ...

Financial Tribune - The government earned 17,023 billion rials ($96.44 million) from tax on cigarette sales in the year ending March 2020. The figure indicates a 50% rise compared with last years 11,334 billion rials ($64.21 million), Fars News Agency reported. Tax on cigarettes sales increased by 22.8% to reach 7,868 billion rials ($44.57 million) ...

Reuters - A senior member of Irans Revolutionary Guards, Farhad Dabirian, was martyred in Syria on Friday, Fars news agency reported, without giving details of how he died. The agency, which is close to the Revolutionary Guards, described Dabirian as a defender of Sayida Zainab shrine, the holy Shiite Muslim site south of Damascus, and as a former ...

Press TV - Iran's Fars news agency says its website has been blocked after the US Treasury Department blacklisted the media group. In a post on its Twitter account, Farsnews said that access to its .com domain had been blocked upon the US Treasury's order. The news agency said that it had received an email from the server company, which explicitly ...

MNA An informed source has said that the Irans top negotiator with anti-money laundering body FATF has been banned from leaving the country. On Monday afternoon, an informed source told Fars News Agency (FNA) that the head of a special working group dubbed the Center for Financial Information Center and Combating Money Laundering, based ...

Reuters - The range of Iranian land-to-sea ballistic missile has been increased to 700 km (435 miles), a senior military official said on Tuesday, as tensions rose between Iran and the United States over new sanctions. We have managed to make land-to-sea ballistic, not cruise, missiles that can hit any vessel or ship from 700 kilometers, Amirali ...

Reuters - A vice president and senior aide under Irans former president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was sentenced to six and a half years in prison on Wednesday on charges of threatening the internal and external security of the country, Fars News reported. A top press aide to Ahmadinejad, Ali Akbar Javanfekr, received a sentence of four years in the same ...

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Iranian state media has run altered images of first lady Michelle Obama's Oscars appearance, making her gown look less revealing. The first lady wore a sleeveless, scoop neck gown. The semi-official Fars news agency ran an altered photo that covered her shoulders and neckline with added material. State TV showed images that blurred ...