A senior aide to the Iranian president said on Sunday that conditions were not currently suitable for negotiations with the United States, while stressing that any such decision would follow a process involving Iran’s leadership and top security bodies.
Washington has outsourced its Iran policy to Israel following the 12-day war, former Obama-era negotiator Alan Eyre told Iran International, warning that the Trump administration now sees Iran's nuclear issue as resolved despite the remaining risks.
US ambassador to the United Nations, Dorothy Shea, condemned Iran for the Houthi rebels’ continued attacks on civilian cargo vessels in the Red Sea during the UN Security Council briefing on Yemen on Tuesday.
The US State Department on Tuesday condemned Iran’s death sentences against protesters from the 2022 Woman, Life, Freedom protest movement, warning that at least 11 people face imminent execution.
Several Iranian officials have bristled at Donald Trump’s mocking remarks about the slain commander Qasem Soleimani, calling his assassination in a 2020 US drone strike an act of terrorism that should have been avenged by killing American leaders.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio says Donald Trump ordered airstrikes on Iranian nuclear facilities in June in a way that limited the scope of the conflict and avoided a broader war.
Iran and the United States could begin Norway-mediated talks in August, Iran’s state-run English-language newspaper Tehran Times reported on Friday, citing unnamed sources familiar with the matter.
Iran will stop the establishment of a US-backed transit corridor in the South Caucasus even without Moscow’s help, as it would endanger regional security and alter the geopolitical map, Ali Akbar Velayati, a senior adviser to Iran’s supreme leader, said on Saturday.
Iran’s president said on Saturday that Israel’s attack on the country during the June 12-day war was carried out under US direction and in pursuit of Washington’s objectives.
Iran cautioned on Saturday that any foreign interference near its borders could undermine security in the South Caucasus after Armenia and Azerbaijan signed a US-brokered peace agreement.
The United States on Friday called the reappointment of veteran powerbroker Ali Larijani to lead Iran's Supreme National Security Council a step back to failed strategies, saying the Iranian people deserve forward-looking leadership.
Iran’s revamp of a top national security body signals a ruling system in decline, former US State Department official Len Khodorkovsky told Eye for Iran, calling it “pure theater” and likening it to “rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic.”
US President Donald Trump will host Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev at the White House on Friday to sign a US-brokered peace agreement creating a transit corridor at Iran’s doorstep, Axios reported.
A US-based advocacy group on Thursday called on Washington and its European allies to confront Iran’s transnational repression by issuing a credible military threat, a week after they accused Tehran of plotting to kill individuals in Europe and the US.
The United States on Thursday sanctioned seven people and 11 entities allegedly tied to Iran’s financial and technology networks in what the Treasury Department described as a crackdown on sanctions evasion, repression and hijab law enforcement.
US President Donald Trump on Thursday said Iran’s nuclear arsenal had been “totally obliterated” and called on Middle Eastern nations to join the Abraham Accords, framing the strikes as a pathway to regional peace.
A document obtained by the Daily Mail lists more than 10,000 individuals from Iran, Syria and Lebanon who were allegedly granted Venezuelan passports, raising concerns over potential infiltration into the United States.
President Donald Trump on Wednesday described Iran as “a very evil place” and said he believes the situation will look very different in the coming years, citing US efforts to cripple Tehran’s nuclear program to prevent wars across the Middle East.
China’s imports of Iranian crude fell by nearly a third in July from the previous month as demand from private refiners eased, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday citing data from intelligence firm Kpler.
A US senator’s proposal to bar all Iranian students from American universities is due to pile another obstacle in the way of aspiring scholars already effectively blocked from entry by Trump administration travel restrictions.
UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy has warned that regime change in Iran could produce outcomes “as bad or worse,” saying there is no guarantee that any successor to the Revolutionary Guards would be an improvement.
A video shared on social media by the supporters of the Islamic Republic purportedly depicts Iranian military forces bundling figures resembling Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu onto the back of a pickup truck labeled Trash Bin of History.