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Iranian commentators have been expressing concern about the impact of the Ukraine-Russia crisis on Iran's nuclear negotiations with world powers in Vienna.

Russian envoy in Iran nuclear talks Mikhail Ulyanov has said that in his meeting with a visiting Israeli delegation in Vienna there was no discussion over Iran.

Bahrain's Crown Prince Salman bin Hamad Al-Khalifa has accepted an invitation from Prime Minister Naftali Bennett to visit Israel in "the near future.”

Over a month after Richard Nephew left the US negotiating team in Vienna, he has published a series of tweets to elaborate on the reasons behind his move.

The Chairman of the Iran-China Chamber of Commerce has said that Iran had “imported goods in return for all the oil that we have sold China.”

Israel has sent officials to Vienna to meet participants in talks trying to revive the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, which Israel has opposed.

Visiting Israel Monday, United States Republican Senator Lindsey Graham compared Iranians to the Nazis and said they “cannot be ignored.”

The Iranian public and the government have criticized Russia's ambassador for honoring a 19th-century forerunner, whom they blame for humiliating their country.

Saudi Arabia's government expressed on Tuesday its support for "US efforts to prevent Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon," state news agency SPA reported.

Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett who is on a landmark trip to Bahrain has called efforts to revive the 2015 Iran nuclear deal a “strategic mistake.”

US State Department says this is the final decisive stage in nuclear talks with Iran to determine whether a mutual return to compliance with the JCPOA remains a possibility.

Emigration of professionals, tradesmen and manufacturers from Iran has increased due to economic and political uncertainty, a top businessman has warned.

Iran's foreign minister blamed the West for lack of an agreement in nuclear talks in Vienna and stressed that Tehran will not back down from it "red lines."

Commenting on corruption involving the Revolutionary Guards and Tehran Municipality, the IRGC spokesman denied Ghasem Soleimani had any role in the dealings.

Iran and Pakistan have established a taskforce to promote cooperation in border security and the exchange of prisoners.

In a major purging operation dubbed by Iranian media as a "managerial genocide" populist Labor Minister Hojjat Abdolmaleki says he will fire 1,000 managers.

A senior Iranian official commenting on nuclear talks has said, "some 30% of difficult issues remain to be resolved but it is possible to reach a deal by early March".

Several rights activists have called on Germany to act to prevent the imminent execution of Iranian-German political activist Jamshid Sharmahd.

Iran's foreign minister has said Tehran is in a hurry to reach a nuclear deal in Vienna, although it suspended talks for about five months in 2021.

Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett will travel to Bahrain Monday in the highest-level visit since the countries established relations in 2020 in part on shared worries about Iran.

Afghan officials Monday asked the White House not to seize its frozen assets, with half allocated to meet lawsuits over the September 11, 2001 al-Qaeda attacks.