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US President Donald Trump said on Monday that US attacks on Iranian nuclear sites had dealt a blow to the Middle East's "bully" that convinced them not to restart the program.

Russia is permitted by international law to step up military ties with Iran even after UN sanctions were reimposed last month, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Monday.

Tehran’s decision to skip a Gaza peace summit in Egypt has left many Iranians feeling further cut off from the world—another sign, they say, of leaders who mistake isolation for strength or dignity.

US President Donald Trump on Monday said Iran could not survive sanctions but that Tehran would likely return to negotiations, in the latest conciliatory comments in the wake of diplomatic progress on Gaza.

After Hamas militants in Gaza and other Iranian-armed allies took punishing blows throughout a two-year war regional melee since Oct. 7 2023, analysts say war-torn Sudan could provide an unlikely haven to recoup their power.

Iran will soon face a severe shortage of pediatric specialists, even in major cities, due to declining interest among general physicians in pursuing pediatric training, the head of Iran’s Medical Council warned on Sunday.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called Donald Trump’s June attacks on Iran’s nuclear facilities as a “historical moment” in a speech delivered before the US President addressed the Jewish state’s parliament.

Speaking before the Israeli Knesset on Monday, President Donald Trump said that Iran is tired of war and Washington is ready for peace after US attacks on Iranian nuclear sites in June.

The Islamic Republic decided not to attend the Sharm el-Sheikh peace summit after carefully reviewing the potential benefits and risks, Iran’s Foreign Ministry said Monday but insisted the move would not diminish Tehran’s influence in regional or international developments.

The United States’ destruction of Iran’s nuclear facility prevented Tehran from obtaining a nuclear weapon just months before the Gaza peace deal, US President Donald Trump said Sunday, calling it key to achieving the current ceasefire framework.

Invitation to the Islamic Republic to attend the Sharm el-Sheikh Peace Summit can be seen as one of the most significant signs of a shift in the strategy of the United States and its Arab allies toward Tehran.

Washington remains ready for “serious and direct dialogue” with Tehran, the US state department told Iran International on Sunday, hours after Iranian leaders declined invitations to attend a Gaza peace summit in Egypt chaired by President Donald Trump.

Iran’s judiciary has instructed law enforcement to identify and prosecute those producing and selling dolls deemed offensive to Shiite sanctities, after they appeared on online marketplaces and social media, the judiciary’s news agency reported.

Iran’s foreign ministry says it summoned Oman’s acting chargé d’affaires in Tehran on Sunday to protest what it called groundless media reports linking the deaths of two people in Oman to bottled water imported from Iran.

Iran's President Masoud Pezeshkian has turned down an Egyptian invitation to attend the Sharm El-Sheikh summit on Gaza chaired by Donald Trump despite calls from moderates not to forgo what they called a historic opportunity.

Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian has turned down Egypt's invitation to attend the Sharm El-Sheikh peace summit due to be chaired by US President Donald Trump on Monday, Iran's foreign minister told a cabinet meeting Sunday.

The state-linked daily Jomhouri Eslami, which operates under the supervision of a representative of Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, described Hamas’s October 7 attack as a mistake that undermined anti-Israel movements in the region.

Iran today stands at a crossroads between decay and renewal: the old order has not yet collapsed, and any new society has yet to fully emerge.

Iran’s former top security official Ali Shamkhani has said then-president Hassan Rouhani was promptly informed after the Revolutionary Guards downed a Ukrainian passenger jet in 2020, contradicting public denials by Rouhani’s aides.

Mohammad Reza Bahoner, member of Iran’s Expediency Council, has recanted earlier remarks opposing mandatory hijab, calling it a "social necessity" and demanding punishment for those who challenge it during an appearance on Iran’s state broadcaster on Saturday.

Iran’s government denied reports that it plans to raise gasoline prices after the leak of a cabinet decree outlining a new pricing framework, which appeared on the website Khaneh Eghtesad and triggered widespread criticism and concern on social media.