US President-elect Donald Trump needs to show he will keep his word before Iran will consider talks with his administration, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian told reporters on Wednesday.
Iran's foreign minister ruled out direct talks with the United States about its disputed nuclear program but emphasized Tehran’s readiness for what he called dignified discussions.
Iran did not plot President-elect Donald Trump's assassination, President Masoud Pezeshkian told NBC, denying allegations by the US Justice Department.
Israel planted explosives in centrifuge technology Iran bought for its nuclear program, veteran diplomat and vice president Mohammad Javad Zarif said, alleging an apparently unknown attempted attack by the Islamic Republic's arch-enemy.
Iranian Foreign Minister Araghchi says Tehran is ready to engage in negotiations with Europe regarding Ukraine. However, he emphasized that dialogue must be reciprocal.
Independent human rights experts working with the United Nations and a senior American official on Tuesday urged Iranian authorities to revoke a death sentence issued against Kurdish women's rights activist and social worker Pakhshan Azizi.
The cost of shipping oil from the Middle East to China surged by over a third in the wake of new US sanctions targeting 183 tankers carrying Russian and Iranian oil on Friday, according to a Reuters report.
The United States on Tuesday called on Iran to overturn the death sentence of an Iranian Kurdish aid worker and civil society activist, saying Pakhshan Azizi was sentenced to death following a "sham trial".
Iran has been reduced to its weakest point in decades, President Joe Biden said in a valedictory foreign policy speech on Monday, citing Tehran's dire economy, knocked-out air defenses and loss of Syria as an ally.
A comprehensive strategic partnership treaty will guide the relationship between Russia and Iran for the next two decades, according to a TASS news agency report on Tuesday, citing Iran's ambassador to Moscow.
Iran's president told NBC News that Tehran is ready for talks with the United States and European Union, emphasizing that Iran is committed to peace in a dovish message likely aimed at the incoming US administration.
French-Iranian author and illustrator Marjane Satrapi has declined France's highest state honor, the Legion d'Honneur, protesting what she described as the country's "hypocrisy" in its dealings with Iran.
Khaled Pirzadeh, a political prisoner and former bodybuilding champion, has attempted suicide after being denied medical care at Tehran's Evin prison.
Iran-backed operatives attempted to lure an Israeli businessman to the United Arab Emirates, Israel's National Security Council said on Tuesday, weeks after an Israeli rabbi was killed there.
A hardline Iranian lawmaker known for his parliamentary outbursts accused the government on Monday of betraying national interests by considering negotiations with the United States.
The head of Iran's Red Crescent Society said that the United States requested financial assistance from Iran to combat the wildfires ravaging California.
Chinese state oil companies and major private refiners are rushing to secure crude supplies as tighter sanctions on Iran and Russia threaten to disrupt near-term oil flows, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday.
Thousands of workers are currently involved in constructing the second and third units of the Bushehr nuclear power plant in southern Iran, the country's atomic energy chief announced on Monday.
Donald Trump should threaten Iran with military force if it continues to advance its nuclear program, advocacy group United Against Nuclear Iran (UANI) said in a report on Monday.
Iran's president threw his weight behind what he called the legitimate government of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro who won re-election in a controversial vote last September.
A hardline Iranian lawmaker torched an Iranian government offer to help put out fires in Los Angeles, home to a sizeable Iranian diaspora population, as a waste of money.