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Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu has accused Iran of being behind last week’s blast on an Israeli-owned ship in the Gulf of Oman days after Israeli officials, including the defence minister, pointed fingers of blame at Tehran.…

Iran said on Monday that the United States should lift sanctions first if it wants to hold talks with Tehran to salvage the 2015 nuclear deal with world powers. President Joe Biden has said Washington is ready for talks about both nations…

Iran has brushed aside European calls to suspend its plan to cut back on UN inspections of its nuclear sites and will impose a new restrictive regime this week, including stopping weapons inspectors from accessing camera feeds at nuclear…

The United Nations special envoy on Yemen is visiting Iran for the first time to discuss Yemen’s crisis, Iranian state TV reported on Sunday, days after Washington announced an end to its support for Saudi-led military operations in Yemen.…

Iran’s Foreign Minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif said on Friday that Tehran will not accept U.S demands that it reverses an acceleration of its nuclear programme before Washington lifts sanctions. The demand “is not practical and will not…

An Israeli official on Sunday dismissed as “nonsense” an allegation by the Iranian foreign minister that Israel was trying to trick the United States into waging war on Iran. It was Israel that needed to be on alert for…

A mock funeral procession in Iraq marked the first anniversary of the drone strike near Baghdad by the United States that killed top Iranian general Qassem Soleimani and Iraqi militia leader Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis. Thousands of mourners…

Iran has executed a man who was convicted of murder 12 years ago when he was 16, drawing condemnation from the UN rights office, which said the execution was prohibited under international law. There was no report of the execution of…