Video showing a Russian-built MiG-29 patrolling skies over Tehran has emerged just days after Iran received the jets.

Iran's theocracy prepared Sunday for a possible confrontation with the West after the United Nations reimposed sanctions over its nuclear program, even as some pushed for continued negotiations to ease the economic pain squeezing the country.

Iran's theocracy prepared Sunday for a possible confrontation with the West after the United Nations reimposed sanctions over its nuclear program, even as some pushed for continued negotiations to ease the economic pain squeezing the country.

Senior adviser to Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Major General Yahya Rahim Safavi has called for Tehran to join the defence pact agreed between Pakistan and Saudi Arabia.Iran,

Iran’s clerical rulers face one of their gravest crises since the 1979 Islamic Revolution, caught between growing discontent at home and a stalled nuclear deal that together have left the country more isolated and divided.

Larijani arrived in Beirut on Saturday, meeting first with Lebanese Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri. In those talks, he endorsed Hezbollah’s call for closer ties with Saudi Arabia and emphasized regional cooperation as essential for countering Israel.