Ali Khamenei's body will lie in state in Tehran's Grand Mosalla from Friday ahead of days-long funeral events.

BBC journalist Ghoncheh Habibiazad faces backlash after quietly editing an inflammatory quote from an anonymous Iranian source calling for the country to be 'nuked'.

"Never." That's when a senior Iranian lawmaker says they'll be ready to give up their control of the Strait of Hormuz. "It's our inalienable right," Ebrahim Azizi, a former commander in Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), tells the BBC in Tehran.

The US president's comments come as Iran says an exact date has not been decided, but it "will not be tomorrow".

Iran's leadership is trying to present its emerging memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the US not as a retreat, but as the result of resistance and victory. That is not an easy argument to make. The country has just gone through a damaging war, the ...

The BBC said it is appealing to the United Nations in Geneva to protect the human rights of its journalists and their families as Iranian authorities escalate “years of persecution and harassment”. The unprecedented move follows its own unheeded calls ...

The BBC visits Bandar Abbas to see how the US-Israeli war with Iran has affected everyday life in the port city.