Iran - with Argentina, Egypt, Ethiopia, Saudi Arabia and the UAE - has been invited by the BRICS group of nations to become new members of the bloc

Cement sales in Iran decreased in June compared to the previous month, but still registered a remarkable 24% year-on-year increase

A runoff will be held between former nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili (who got 9,4 million votes) and heart surgeon Masoud Pezeshkian (10,4 million) after no one got more than 50% of the vote in the presidential election; turnout was 39,9%

The country condemned the inclusion of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps in the list of terrorist organisations as 'an unwise and unconventional step, politically motivated' after Canada joined with Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Sweden and the USA

Following the UN Atomic Observatory declaring that Iran is expanding its nuclear capabilities, France, Germany and Britain condemned the country's 'latest measures'