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An Iranian prosecutor says 124 people have been indicted in absentia for the killing of Iran’s general Qasem Soleimani by US drones in Baghdad, in January 2020.

Hardliners in Iran call the new negotiating team sent to Vienna “revolutionary forces”, and pouring scorn on the United States, while also attacking Israel.

Britain and Israel will "work night and day" to prevent Iran from becoming a nuclear power, the foreign ministers of the two countries wrote in a joint article.

The heavy presence of financial officials in Iran's new negotiating team highlights Tehran’s focus on lifting US sanctions in talks starting in Vienna, Monday.

Iran, Turkmenistan and Azerbaijan have signed a gas swap deal for up to 2 billion cubic meters per year, Iranian state news agency IRNA reported on Sunday.

Iranian human rights groups abroad have reported on Sunday that 214 protesters in Esfahan have been arrested and 30 others are in hospitals with eye injuries.

Both far-right and far-left politicians in Iran are proposing new cash handouts to poverty-stricken citizens amid skyrocketing food prices many cannot afford.

Hardline media in Iran claim that the United States instigated protests in Esfahan to put pressure on Tehran ahead of nuclear talks set to resume on Monday.

Iran’s health minister has warned about the possibility of the new coronavirus variant, Omicron, spreading in the country but did not announce any travel bans.

Israel worries Iran will secure a windfall in sanctions relief in renewed nuclear talks but will not sufficiently roll back its bomb-making potential, Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said on Sunday.

Victims’ families of an airliner downed by Iran in 2020 protested Sunday rejecting a trial of junior officers and demanding top officials to be held to account.

The United States and its partners are likely to exert pressure on Iran if it uses talks in Vienna to accelerate its nuclear program, the US said on Saturday.

Former Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has called on the government not to create tension between regions, and answer for civilian deaths during protests.

Talks resume in Vienna between Iran and world powers Monday after a five-month gap with scant optimism of reviving the 2015 deal limiting Tehran’s atomic program.

Injured veterans of the 1980s Iran-Iraq war gathered in Tehran on Saturday to protest financial hardship and demand regular pension payments from the government.

State-controlled media in Iran have tried to explain why IRGC General Seyyed Javad Ghaffari, top commander in Syria had to leave that country in early November.

Iran’s IRGC-affiliated Fars news agency has blamed US Democrats for protests in Esfahan alleging that it is related to the upcoming resumption of nuclear talks.

Anti-government protests continued overnight in Esfahan as security forces attacked demonstrators with a variety of weapons and reportedly arrested 120 people.

The official Iranian government news agency IRNA has reiterated three conditions prior to the resumption of nuclear talks with world powers in Vienna on Monday.

Protests in Esfahan Friday continued into the evening with clashes between protesters who chanted anti-regime slogans and security forces who attacked them.

The spokesman of Iran’s foreign ministry has reiterated that all US ‘maximum pressure’ sanctions should be lifted at once and that Tehran would reject any interim arrangement.