President Joe Biden has said the United States will not lift sanctions on Iran before the country returns to its commitments under the 2015 nuclear deal, the latest impasse in an ongoing standoff between the [ More … ]
Iran has told the United Nations nuclear watchdog it intends to enrich uranium to up to 20 percent purity, a level it achieved before its 2015 deal with major powers at its Fordow Fuel Enrichment [ More … ]
A high-ranking Iranian nuclear physicist, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, was assassinated in an ambush near Iran’s capital, Tehran, on Friday. Fakhrizadeh was shot “by terrorists” in his vehicle in Absard, a suburb in eastern Tehran, later succumbing [ More … ]
Unannounced visit comes as France ramps up efforts to ease tensions between Iran and US over Tehran’s nuclear programme. Iran‘s top diplomat has held talks with France‘s President Emmanuel Macron at the sidelines of the [ More … ]
Tehran ramps up nuclear efforts as US warns the Islamic Republic will never be allowed to build an atomic weapon. Iran warned world powers they will not be able to negotiate a better deal than [ More … ]
How inflammatory headlines, unnamed sources and decades of misinformation in the US media over Iran play their part. Hyped-up headlines, “anonymous” sources and unspecified threats – Iran is back in the news in the United States. It wouldn’t [ More … ]
US officials say that President Donald Trump is just days away from stepping up confrontation with Iran by “decertifying” the 2015 nuclear accord. US President Donald Trump is set to announce next week that he [ More … ]
The European Union is approaching Iran to signal to its commitment to the nuclear deal despite Trump’s latest remarks, and holding out the promise of its economic payoff ahead of May 19 presidential polls, EU [ More … ]
The US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said Iran may follow the path of North Korea and produce nuclear weapons if the region is left uncontrolled by world leaders while calling for reviewing the terms [ More … ]
The Trump administration said on Tuesday it was preparing for reviewing the Iran nuclear deal, to determine whether the lifting of sanctions against Iran was in the United States’ national security interests after long months [ More … ]
Iranian president Hassan Rouhani traveled to Russia to meet the Russian president and other prominent figures as part of their efforts to expand their power in the region, strengthen political and diplomatic ties, create new [ More … ]
According to deal signed after lifting the sanctions on Iran last year, An Airbus (AIR.PA) A330 airliner arrived in Tehran on Saturday, the third of 200 Western-built passenger aircraft ordered by IranAir. Iran made a historic nuclear [ More … ]
Iran started to counter the US measures and threats by imposing its own sanctions against various US companies, alleging they support terrorism, repression, and Israel’s occupation of Palestine, Iran made a historic nuclear deal with [ More … ]
Iran’s Foreign Minister warned that that Tehran is ready to restore its nuclear program if the US fails to live up to its commitments under the July 2015 nuclear deal. Iran made a historic nuclear deal with P5+1 powers [ More … ]
A navy confrontation between U.S. and Iranian vessels in the strait of Hormuz sparked more tension as both sides blamed one another for the incident. Trump has said during his election campaign that Iran’s nuclear deal [ More … ]
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