TEHRAN — Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) has held its ninth intelligence drill, Fars news agency reported.

The exercise was held in the provinces of West Azarbaijan, Kurdistan, Markazi, Lorestan and Zanjan.

“The main goal of the exercise was to increase the level of preparedness of the intelligence and security apparatuses, as well as

TEHRAN — Iran’s intelligence ministry issued a statement on Saturday announcing that it has detained a Swedish national on accounts of espionage.

The ministry identified and arrested the citizen of “the Kingdom of Sweden on charges of espionage,” the statement said.

“The accused Swedish, who was on the list of suspects of the counter-espionage unit o

TEHRAN – A senior Uzbek diplomat has said that Iran will sign an obligations document for its membership in the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO).

The Uzbek acting foreign minister, Vladimir Norov, said on Friday that planning is underway for Iran to sign the document needed for its full membership in the SCO in the next summit of the

TEHRAN – Despite growing uncertainties over nuclear talks with the West, Iran has moved to develop its foreign relations with many countries in the world and upgrade them to a strategic level in some cases.

Developing Iran’s foreign relations is no longer contingent on the 2015 nuclear deal, officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of A