World powers were set to resume high level talks in Vienna on Tuesday focused on bringing the United States back into the nuclear deal with Iran, in their first session since comments surfaced from …
Iran, US warships in tense Middle East encounter
American and Iranian warships have had a tense encounter in the waters of the Gulf earlier this month, the first such incident in about a year amid wider turmoil in the region over Tehran’s tattered …
Iran still has serious differences in Vienna talks: Khatibzadeh
Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman announced that Iranian negotiating delegation has departed for Vienna on Monday to attend the JCPOA joint commission meeting. Speaking at a weekly press conference …
Iran, US warships in first tense Mideast encounter in a year
The U.S. Navy says that American and Iranian warships had a tense encounter in the Persian Gulf earlier this month …
Yemen’s Houthis fire drone at Saudi military base, says spokesman
Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthi movement launched a drone attack on a military base in the southern Saudi city of Khamis Mushait at dawn on Monday, the group’s military spokesman said on Twitter. There …
Leaked recording of Iran’s top diplomat offers blunt talk
A recording of Iran’s foreign minister offering a blunt appraisal of diplomacy and the limits of power within the Islamic Republic has been leaked, providing a rare look inside the country’s theocracy …
The Times view on Iran jailing Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: Nazanin’s Trials
To the shame of the international community Iran was this month elected as a member of the United Nations commission on the status of women. Tehran’s treatment of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe shows that …
Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: Iran sentences British-Iranian aid worker to another year in jail
An Iranian court has handed British-Iranian charity worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe a new one-year jail sentence and travel ban on charges of spreading propaganda against the regime, her husband said …
Iran’s Foreign Minister, in Leaked Tape, Says Revolutionary Guards Set Policies
Mohammad Javad Zarif, the Iranian foreign minister, described a rivalry with a powerful and widely revered military leader, Qassim Suleimani.
Leaked Javad Zarif recording stirs hot political debate in Iran
A leaked interview in which Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif frankly discusses behind-the-scenes manoeuvres in Iranian politics has stirred fierce conversati …