Lithuania has faced retaliation from China over Taiwan, facing import discrimination after allowing Taipei to open a trade office in the city of Vilnius.

The United States' 0-0 tie against heavily-favored England headlined Friday's action at the World Cup in Qatar. Here's everything that went down in the Middle East.

The United States avoided a huge hole with Friday's draw against England, and the Americans are feeling confident heading into Tuesday's match against Iran.

A former member of the Iranian national soccer team was arrested Thursday for “insulting the national soccer team and propagandizing against the government."

Biden administration needs an Iranian reset that would start with firing Special Envoy Malley, enforce existing US and UN sanctions and support the people.

A new study by the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change published a new report showing Iranian society has become more secular, spanning both genders and all age groups.

Iran has allegedly enriched 60% pure uranium at other sites since April 2021, but the decision to do so at its underground Fordow facility presents significant escalation.

Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., discusses efforts to combat growing woke ideology in the armed forces and responds to the Iranian national soccer team refusing to sing country’s national anthem at the World Cup.

Hezbollah has moved hundreds of chemical weapons to the Lebanese-Syrian border with the help of North Korean scientists and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.

An Israeli Military Intelligence Major said Iran will target the World Cup in Qatar as tensions build over protests from the death of a woman in September.

The Iranian national soccer team made a statement ahead of their Group B matchup against England on Monday, apparently showing support for protesters back home.

Iran has taken aim at a small Kurdish-majority city in its most recent attempt to fight back against protests that have raged in the country for over two months.

Residents in Iran's Kurdish city of Mahabad have had their power and internet access cut as the regime fights back against demonstrations.

Moscow and Tehran have reportedly reached a deal to make Iranian-supplied drones on Russian soil to bolster its war effort in Ukraine, the Washington Post said Saturday.

Nazanin Boniadi, who stars in “Rings of Power,” made a powerful plea before prominent Hollywood figures to gather support for Iranian women protesting the country’s hijab law.

The regime has failed to shut down the protests after two months, with protestors in over 140 cities and provinces even after security forces killed around 350 people.

Protesters on Thursday night set fire to the Ayatollah Khomeini Museum in the city of Qom in the most direct act of defiance against the regime. (NCRI.)

The International Atomic Energy Agency has voted to order Iran to allow investigators to search three undeclared nuclear sites where traces of uranium were found.

Brutal videos have emerged from Iran amid ongoing protests since Mahsa Amini's death, one showing police appearing to fire on a crowd at a metro station.

Two veteran GOP congressmen sent a letter to secretaries Lloyd Austin and Antony Blinken demanding they respond to the recent Iranian attacks on U.S. interests in Iraq.

Protesters were beaten and shot at by Iranian security forces at a Tehran subway stop (Reuters.)

The Iranian couple, who cannot be identified as their faces remain obscured, defy a few different Sharia laws with this simple act of defiance against the Islamist regime.

The Treasury Department has sanctioned six officials at an Iranian state-run media corporation for their alleged complicity in government suppression.

Iranian security forces officers have allegedly imprisoned children alongside adults and even beaten teenagers for their involvement in the protests against the regime.

In a series of videos captured from around Iran, the regime's security forces try to quell protests through whatever means necessary. CREDIT: NCRI

The Islamist regime of Iran famously pursued mass executions through its 1988 "death commission," which may have killed as many as 30,000 political prisoners and dissidents.

The U.N. human rights office is urging Iran's government to release thousands of people who have been detained for peaceful protesting.

The U.S. Navy says it has intercepted a fishing vessel trying to transport explosive material from Iran to Houthi rebels in the war-torn country of Yemen.

Iran's Revolutionary Court has issued its first known death sentence against an anti-government protester and handed jail terms to five others.

Protests against the Iranian regime have continued into a 60th day. This as the UN has scheduled an emergency session to address the deadly crackdown by Iranian authorities against protesters.