Jordan recalled its ambassador from Iran, Al Arabiya News Channel reported on Monday, saying the diplomat had been called back for consultations over what it described as Tehran's interference in Arab affairs.

Euronews - Iran has come in for criticism from leaders of more than 50 Muslim nations at a summit in Istanbul.A final communique from the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation said it “deplored” what it calls Iran’s “interference in the internal affairs of states in the region” and also Bahrain, Yemen, Syria, and Somalia.Iran was also accused by the leaders of continuing to “support terrorism”.

BBC - Russia is reported to have started delivering S-300 surface-to-air missiles to Iran, under a deal opposed by Israel, the US and Saudi Arabia.

ANKARA (Reuters) – Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif will visit Istanbul on Saturday and meet with President Tayyip Erdogan, Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu and Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu, Turkey’s foreign ministry said on Friday.

Euronews - Iran carried out two new ballistic missile tests on Wednesday morning in defiance of renewed threats of sanctions from the United States.

BBC - Billionaire Iranian businessman Babak Zanjani has been sentenced to death for corruption, justice officials say.

Euronews - The entire male population of a village in Iran has been executed for its alleged role in drug trafficking, according to an Iranian cabinet minister.

By Harut SassounianPublisher, The California Courierwww.TheCaliforniaCourier.comDuring the past one thousand years, the relationship between the two neighboring Islamic states of Persia and the Ottoman Empire vacillated between peaceful coexistence and outright war. The populations of these two states were not only of different ethnic and linguistic backgrounds, but were also divided in their Islamic faith -- the Persians were Shia, while the Turks were Sunni. The divisions between Iran and Turkey ...

Euronews - Iran is to issue visas for all foreign nationals upon their arrival at Iranian airports, except for those from Britain, the US and seven other countries. Visas in those cases must still be applied for in their home countries.

Reuters - Iran's cyber police chief said on Monday officers had arrested 53 people for running websites supporting the Islamic State militant group (IS), Tasnim news agency reported.Shi'ite Muslim power Iran said last month it had broken up a cell recruiting fighters for the hardline Sunni Muslim group in Kermanshah, a western province close to the Iraqi border.The area has a large Sunni Kurdish population that has risen up against Tehran in the pastThe cyber police chief, Kamal Hadianfar, said ...