Here are Press TV's latest top stories at 09:00 GMT on January 02, 2026.

Iraq’s prime minister travels to Iran’s capital Tehran for talks Iranian officials, including President Masoud Pezeshkian.

US court awards a so-called American journalist, who is infamous for his sympathy for Washington’s assassination of Iran’s top anti-terror general, massive compensation for his imprisonment in the Islamic Republic.

The cultural heart of Tehran is beating strong as the Roudaki concert hall Hall hosts a special poetry congress.

A deputy Iranian foreign minister says any attempts by the upcoming administration of US President Donald Trump to re-impose Washington’s “maximum pressure” policy against Iran will be met with “maximum resistance” on the part of the Islamic Republic.

The first international conference on Martyr Soleimani’s school of thought has wrapped up in the Iranian capital Tehran.

After the disintegration of the Soviet Union, western countries, under the leadership of the US, placed the re-engineering of West Asia at the top of their agenda in order to ensure the safety of the Zionist regime and protect their ulterior motives.