One of Iran’s leading human-rights defenders warns that authorities there will turn on their own people to consolidate power ...

T he enormous roundabout at Azadi Square was full of cars, yet still felt somehow deserted. Then it dawned on me: Humans—they ...

Tehran, Russia's main ally in the Middle East, has been dealt a heavy blow as Israel dismantled its network of proxies and ...

CBS News' Seyed Rahim Bathaei has covered Iran for more than 35 years, and he expected the tension with Israel to boil over ...

Fear stalks Tehran as Israel bombards, shelters fill up and communicating grows harder In Iran’s capital city, the streets are empty, businesses closed, communications patchy at best ...

Just two days after authorizing military strikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities at Fordow, Isfahan, and Natanz, U.S. President ...

Under Ayatollah Khamenei, who served as president from 1981 to 1988 and became Iran’s supreme leader in 1989, the lessons of ...

It took a CBS News crew more than 14 hours to drive south from Turkey to Tehran, a nearly 600-mile trip made longer by ...

The Lebanese militant group Hezbollah was long considered Iran’s first line of defense in case of a war with Israel.

Explosions were heard in Iran’s capital as Israeli warplanes pounded Tehran overnight and into Wednesday. Less than a week into the conflict, Israel says its aircraft have free rein over the ...

Iran bluntly threatened the US on Wednesday that any involvement in its conflict with Israel would trigger an “all-out war” — as Tehran reportedly started prepping missiles for retaliatory ...

Explosions were heard in Iran's capital as Israeli warplanes pounded Tehran overnight and into Wednesday. Less than a week into the conflict, Israel says its aircraft have free rein over the city ...