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Tehran has condemned the first round of US sanctions targeting individuals and companies accused of facilitating Iranian oil sales, calling the move illegal and unjustified.

Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei firmly rejected the idea of negotiations with the United States on Friday, appearing to pour cold water on optimism by US President Donald Trump and his own government for a nuclear deal.

Members of the US Congress from both parties introduced a bill on Thursday calling for denying Iran a nuclear bomb by any means necessary, days after US President Trump appeared to downplay a military option.

Iran’s Supreme Court rejected a motion for a retrial in the case of Pakhshan Azizi, a Kurdish political prisoner and humanitarian worker on death row, her lawyer said on Thursday, sparking fears among rights groups that her execution is imminent.

A former official and a public intellectual in Tehran called on Iran's government to seize the opportunity for negotiations with the United States following US President Donald Trump’s offer to speak with his Iranian counterpart.

The United States announced sanctions on networks involved in shipping Iranian oil to China on Thursday, two days after President Trump reinstated the so-called maximum pressure policy on Iran from his first term.

Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) inaugurated its first drone-carrier warship in a ceremony in the Persian Gulf port city of Bandar Abbas on Thursday, state media reported.

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Thursday that proving the peaceful aims of its nuclear program would be easy, in an apparent bid to address US President Donald Trump's increased emphasis on achieving a deal.

Iranian security forces are torturing the brother of a young woman shot and paralyzed by police while driving without a hijab after he publicly campaigned for her treatment, according to a close family member.

Sweden has launched an inquiry into allegations that Rouzbeh Parsi, an Iranian-Swedish Middle East scholar at a prominent thinktank, was involved in a Tehran-led influence network aimed at shaping Western policy.

Iran’s exiled Prince Reza Pahlavi accused Germany of barring him from the upcoming Munich Security Conference, calling the decision an effort to silence the Iranian people and appease the Islamic Republic.

Iran’s Revolutionary Guards have received their first warship capable of launching drones and helicopters at sea, the semi-official Tasnim news agency affiliated with the Revolutionary Guards reported Thursday.

Social media posts and readers’ comments on reports published by some media outlets reveal divergent views about the possibility of a meeting between the US and Iranian presidents.

Prisoners in 35 facilities across Iran have joined hunger strikes as part of the No to Execution Tuesdays campaign, now in its 54th week protesting the country's use of capital punishment.

A hawkish Republican senator has expressed doubts about the feasibility of Donald Trump's idea of clinching a verifiable nuclear deal with Tehran, arguing that such a deal would not be possible as Iran's leaders are not trustworthy.

All options are on the table for the United States to prevent Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon, Trump's national security advisor Michael Waltz said in a Space conversation on X.

Demonstrating to US President Donald Trump that Iran does not seek nuclear weapons will not be difficult and is achievable, foreign minister Abbas Araghchi said on Wednesday, in an apparent olive branch to Tehran's main adversary.

An Iranian lawmaker said he would kill Donald Trump after the US president threatened to obliterate Iran if it sought to assassinate him.

Iran's president on Wednesday played down a memorandum signed by US President Donald Trump aimed at reducing Tehran's oil exports to zero but offered no reaction after Trump said he was willing to speak with his Iranian counterpart.

US President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that any reports the United States and Israel would work together on a devastating military attack on Iran were overblown.

Tehran dismissed US President Donald Trump’s warning that any attempt by Iran to assassinate him would result in the country’s destruction, calling the remarks "provocative".