The United States on Tuesday called on Iran’s leadership to move away from what it called bellicose rhetoric and focus on easing domestic hardships, saying Iranians deserve better after years of economic privations.
The US Treasury imposed sanctions on Tuesday on four Iranian nationals and more than a dozen companies and individuals in Hong Kong and the United Arab Emirates accused of helping Iran’s military move funds through oil sales and cryptocurrency.
Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said on Tuesday that possible negotiations with the United States will hinge on Washington’s readiness for a deal based on mutual interests without threats or intimidation, not on which regional state mediates.
The United States marked the third anniversary of Mahsa "Jina" Amini’s death in Iran's police custody on Monday with a statement condemning the Islamic Republic leadership and pledging continued pressure on Tehran.
Ali Larijani, Iran’s newly appointed security chief, courted controversy on Monday by suggesting Americans could be driven to suicide when hearing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu describe Israel as a bulwark of American civilization.
Proposals to end uranium enrichment and halt the country’s missile program were misguided and unrealistic, said a senior member of the office of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei amid intensified internal debate over the country's policies.
Slain conservative activist Charlie Kirk had privately pressed President Donald Trump in the Oval Office not to launch a war against Iran, even while donors aligned with him opposed that stance, US right-wing commentator Tucker Carlson said.
Israeli officials told French authorities that Iran’s nuclear program was not entirely destroyed in June’s US-Israeli airstrikes, Le Monde reported on Friday.
The United States Air Force has ordered a batch of cutting-edge new bunker buster bombs, Defense News reported this week, reaching for the successor technology to huge ordnance which pounded Iranian nuclear sites in June.
Federal prosecutors in Massachusetts said on Friday they had seized $584,741 in cryptocurrency from an Iranian national tied to the Revolutionary Guards’ drone manufacturing program.
The United States on Friday expressed solidarity with Iranian people, saying in a message marking the fifth anniversary of Tehran's execution of wrestler Navid Afkari that Washington backed their struggle for freedom.
Two US senators sounded the alarm over the violation of NATO-member Poland's airspace on Tuesday by pilotless aircraft from Russia and Belarus, as Moscow steps up fusillades against Ukraine with Iranian-designed drones.
A onetime Iranian security chief whom a lawsuit accuses of torturing anti-Shah dissidents transferred more than $20 million abroad before fleeing to the United States in 1978, the Guardian reported on Thursday citing leaked diplomatic documents.
Conservative organizer and activist Charlie Kirk, who was killed by an unknown assassin on Wednesday, had praised the Iranian-American community and supported US attacks on the Islamic Republic in June while generally supporting its foe Israel.
The United States offered a reward of up to $15 million for information to disrupt financial networks of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, including its Qods Force, the State Department said on Wednesday.
The United States on Wednesday urged Iran to take “immediate and concrete action” to meet its nuclear safeguards obligations, warning the IAEA board may need to act if Tehran fails to cooperate.
An Israeli-Russian academic abducted and held hostage by an Iran-backed militia in Iraq has been released, US President Donald Trump said in a social media post on Tuesday.
The US State Department, in a rare comment on Iran’s domestic financial policy, criticized a new law imposing capital gains taxes on real estate, vehicles, foreign currency, precious metals and cryptocurrencies, saying it would add to citizens’ hardships.
US President Donald Trump on Monday torched a Democratic Senator who last week said the notion that rights were derived from the creator and not laws was troubling and in line with theocratic thinking in Iran.
Iran has taken steps toward beginning negotiations with the United States in parallel with talks with the UN nuclear watchdog, the state-linked daily Farhikhtegan reported on Monday.
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi and his Venezuelan counterpart YvánGil Pinto discussed bilateral ties and recent US military activity in the Caribbean in a phone call, Iranian state media reported on Sunday.
Several newspapers in Iran have warned that the return of UN sanctions and threats of renewed conflict with Israel could plunge the country into crisis, while also noting that some officials downplay the risks.