Iran’s nuclear strategy has entered an ambiguous new phase, said veteran non-proliferation expert Mark Fitzpatrick, and Israel’s attacks in June could have left intact Tehran's ability to pivot toward a bomb if it so chose.
Tehran’s messaging this week suggests it may be open to a limited agreement with Washington, but its preconditions leave little room for a deal that US President Donald Trump deemed 'probable' this week.
Tehran’s fraught relationship with the UN nuclear watchdog is set to enter a more confrontational phase as the IAEA Board of Governors meets in Vienna this week to vote on a Western-backed resolution censuring Iran for non-cooperation.
Europe is no longer a mediator but a co-architect of US-led pressure on Iran, and the relationship post-snapback is likely to harden into a more openly adversarial phase.
Iran said on Tuesday that enhancing strategic cooperation with the five Caspian Sea littoral states has become a top foreign-policy priority, citing the basin’s growing significance in trade, transit, tourism and energy.
India’s embassy in Tehran on Monday said Iran will suspend its visa-waiver facility for ordinary Indian passport holders from November 22 after reports that Indians were being lured to the country on false job offers and kidnapped for ransom.
A senior advisor to Iran’s Supreme Leader said on Sunday that President Donald Trump must drop the idea that pressure can force Iran into concessions, adding that Tehran remains ready for talks on equal terms but will not abandon uranium enrichment.
Europeans may have intended to pressure Tehran when they demanded last month an end to Iran’s “occupation” of the three Persian Gulf islands, but the move instead exposed how badly they misread Iran’s public mood.
Iran on Thursday rejected the Group of Seven foreign ministers’ final statement, accusing the bloc of lying about Iranian nuclear activities and alleged support for Russia's war in Ukraine.
A Guards-linked outlet has criticized an Iranian standards official for sitting at the same roundtable as an Israeli representative at last month’s ISO meeting in Rwanda, warning that such contact could carry legal penalties.
The Islamic Republic’s embassy in Lebanon on Tuesday fired back at remarks made by a top US sanctions official who urged Beirut to cut Tehran's funding to its Lebanese ally Hezbollah.
Iraq’s parliamentary election on Tuesday unfolded under the shadow of foreign influence from the United States and Iran which have for two decades vied over the future of the war-battered Arab nation.
The US is trying to set up military bases near Iran’s southern port on the Gulf of Oman to tighten control over regional energy and trade routes, a senior adviser to Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei said on Tuesday.
Iran accused the United States of sending mixed signals on reviving nuclear talks, saying the June strikes on its nuclear facilities war undermined ongoing diplomacy and efforts toward a peaceful agreement.
Iran’s foreign minister said on Sunday there is currently no possibility of resuming negotiations with the United States, citing what he described as a lack of constructive behavior from Washington.
The new push for an electricity grid linking Iran, Russia and Azerbaijan grid promises closer energy integration but could leave Tehran more exposed to Moscow’s leverage as rival corridors threaten to dilute its regional role.
Iran’s Hajj and Pilgrimage Organization has urged Saudi Arabia to increase the number of Iranians permitted to perform the Hajj pilgrimage next year, saying its current quota does not reflect the country’s population size.
Iran’s foreign minister on Thursday said the country should not fear war and faulted the United States for withdrawing from a past nuclear deal and failing to achieve diplomatic progress in talks.
Australia’s Parliament has passed a law allowing the government to list foreign state entities such as Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as sponsors of terrorism, after intelligence linked the group to antisemitic attacks in Sydney and Melbourne.
Almost half a century after young revolutionaries stormed the US embassy in Tehran, Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei once again defended the move, leaning into the original break between the arch-foes and all but ruling out rapprochement.
Iran’s embassy in Paris coordinated a decades-long campaign to influence French political, academic and media spheres, according to a new report by French think tank France2050.
Iran has released French prisoners Cecile Kohler and Jacques Paris who had been detained since 2022, President Emmanuel Macron announced on Tuesday, nearly two weeks after Paris freed an Iranian citizen charged with promoting terrorism.