Iran Sanctions

Nearly 75 percent of Britain’s Labour voters back designating Iran’s Revolutionary Guards as a terrorist group, a poll cited by the Telegraph shows, increasing pressures on the prime minister to fulfill his party’s pre-election pledge.

Iran and Russia have stepped up coordination as European powers threaten to trigger the reimposition of UN sanctions on Tehran, officials said on Friday, days before an end-August deadline to activate the snapback mechanism.

Friday’s talks between Iran and European powers made no progress, Axios and the Wall Street Journal reported, as a deadline looms for the reimposition of UN sanctions on Tehran under the so-called snapback mechanism.

Iran must remain prepared for a fresh round of conflict as the war with Israel is not over, the Islamic Republic's top security official Ali Larijani said two months after a US-brokered ceasefire put an end to a 12-day war between Iran and Israel.

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian visited Belarus this week, a heavily sanctioned Russian ally, in a trip that highlighted how Tehran’s “Look East” strategy ties it more closely to Moscow and Beijing and their sanctioned partners.

A senior Iranian diplomat warned Europe that triggering the UN’s “snapback” mechanism to restore sanctions would squander its leverage and harden Tehran’s nuclear stance.

A hacker group said it disabled communications on more than 60 Iranian oil tankers and cargo ships, severing links between the vessels, their ports, and the outside world in one of the largest cyberattacks on the country’s maritime sector.

The United States imposed sanctions on 13 companies and eight vessels over suspected ties to Iran, the Treasury Department said on Thursday, in the latest effort to stop Tehran's oil exports in violation of US sanctions.

Britain imposed sanctions on Hossein Shamkhani, the son of a close aide to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, and four companies accused of supporting hostile Iranian activity, a government notice showed on Thursday.

An Iranian lawmaker warned that Tehran would resume war with Israel and withdraw from the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) if European powers trigger the so-called “snapback” mechanism that would reinstate UN sanctions on Iran.

An Iranian-linked network used naval mortgages to disguise billions of dollars in oil shipments to China from Iran, Venezuela and Russia between 2019 and 2023, the Financial Times reported on Wednesday.

Iran’s missiles are capable of striking into the heart of Europe and could eventually target US cities from the sea, an Iranian lawmaker said on Sunday.

The latest round of US sanctions imposed on Iran mark a shift in Washington’s strategy, moving beyond conventional financial limits to target the intertwined financial and digital networks that sustain Tehran’s economy and political control.

Iranian officials said on Thursday they are seeking ways to prevent the return of UN sanctions and are ready to hold talks with the United States over Tehran's disputed nuclear program, provided they are not used as a pretext for another military campaign.

US president Donald Trump has spotlighted whistleblower allegations that Standard Chartered Bank’s New York branch moved billions of dollars to entities linked to Iran and Hezbollah.

Iran’s foreign minister on Wednesday accused the United States and its allies of imposing sanctions that cause mass casualties, citing a study he said showed they may be as deadly as armed conflict.

France, Germany and the United Kingdom have told the United Nations they are prepared to reimpose international sanctions on Iran unless it resumes nuclear negotiations with the United States and other powers, according to a letter shared by the French foreign ministry.

While China keeps buying discounted oil from Iran and Russia, it is steering new investments and trade routes toward their competitors, official Chinese data reveals.