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US counter-narcotics operations off Venezuela are part of a broader drive to dismantle an Iran- and Hezbollah-linked drug-finance network, officials told Fox News Digital on Sunday.

Australia’s decision to expel the Islamic Republic's ambassador to Canberra was an unjustified move to please Israel, Iran's foreign ministry spokesman told Australian broadcaster Channel 9, blaming what he called a Mossad plot.

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi and his Venezuelan counterpart YvánGil Pinto discussed bilateral ties and recent US military activity in the Caribbean in a phone call, Iranian state media reported on Sunday.

Billions of dollars belonging to South Africa’s MTN Group, the founding investor of Irancell, Iran’s second-largest mobile operator, remain blocked in Iran under US sanctions, the company confirmed in a recent financial update.

The United States is considering new restrictions on foreign delegations attending this month’s UN General Assembly, including measures that would further limit the movements of Iranian diplomats in New York, the Associated Press reported on Friday.

Australia’s ambassador has left Tehran after Canberra expelled Iran’s envoy last month over alleged arson attacks on Jewish sites, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei said on Thursday.

Exit from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty would not determine whether Iran faces war, an Iranian parliament member said on Thursday.

Venezuela’s drone industry, built on Iranian designs, is still overseen by Iranian specialists who block local staff from entering without permission amid a standoff over US warships deployed in the Caribbean, the Miami Herald reported.

Iran has toned down its opposition to the proposed Zangezur Corridor linking Azerbaijan to its exclave of Nakhchivan, adopting a more cautious stance after years of confrontation, Turkish newspaper Daily Sabah said in an opinion article on Thursday.

Iran’s top security official Ali Larijani and British national security adviser Jonathan Powell discussed nuclear talks and handling the snapback sanctions process in a phone call, domestic media reported on Wednesday, adding that both sides agreed to keep negotiations going.

The leaders of China, Russia, North Korea and Iran who appeared together at a Beijing military parade formed an “autocratic alliance” challenging the rules-based order, EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said on Wednesday.

Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch have accused Iranian authorities of unleashing mass arrests, executions and repression of minorities under the guise of national security following June’s war with Israel.

Iran’s Foreign Ministry said its 25-year cooperation agreement with China is progressing, and framed the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) as a platform for the Global South, in a direct challenge to the United States.

Inspectors have completed a brief visit to Bushehr, as Tehran readies for another round of negotiations with the International Atomic Energy Agency, Iran’s atomic energy chief said on Sunday.

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian told a summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization in Tianjin that members must expand trade in national currencies and strengthen financial mechanisms to withstand sanctions.

Yale University will offer a new seminar on US-Iran relations this fall taught by former US Iran envoy Robert Malley, with required readings that include works by former Islamic Republic officials, according to a course syllabus seen by Iran International.

Iran said the Israeli airstrike that killed Houthi Prime Minister Ahmad Ghaleb al-Rahwi and several cabinet members in Sanaa would draw a response from its regional allies, calling the attack a war crime aimed at silencing Yemen’s support for Gaza.

Iran expelled more than 1.8 million undocumented migrants who are mainly Afghans over the past year, an interior ministry official said on Sunday, adding that at least 800,000 more must leave under the government’s removal plan.