World Jul 24 Iran says it’s ready for nuclear talks with Washington but only if the U.S. rebuilds trust The comments Thursday by Deputy Foreign Minister Kazem Gharibabadi come a day before talks are to be held between Tehran and European nations.
World May 21 Iran says despite U.S. demands, it will never stop enriching uranium Iran’s top diplomat is insisting that Tehran will never stop enriching uranium. It further underlines the Islamic Republic’s red line in negotiations with the United States over its rapidly advancing nuclear program.
World Apr 17 US-Iran nuclear talks at ‘very crucial’ stage, UN’s atomic watchdog says That's what the head of the United Nations' nuclear watchdog said Thursday while on a visit to the Islamic Republic.
World Mar 30 Iran rejects direct nuclear negotiations with the U.S. in response to Trump’s letter President Masoud Pezeshkian said that Iran's response, delivered via the sultanate of Oman, left open the possibility of indirect negotiations with Washington. However, such talks have made no progress since Trump in his first term unilaterally withdrew the U.S. from Tehran's…
World Nov 06 Iran’s currency drops to a record low as Trump clinches the U.S. presidency The rial traded on Wednesday at 703,000 rials to the dollar. In 2015, at the time of Iran's nuclear deal with world powers, it was at 32,000 to $1.
World Aug 04 Top Jordanian diplomat makes rare visit to Iran as fears of wider regional war soar Jordan’s foreign minister met Iran’s acting foreign minister in Tehran on Sunday as the United States and its Arab allies try to prevent a wider war after the back-to-back killings of top Iran-allied militants sparked vows of revenge against Israel.
Politics Jul 08 WATCH: State Department holds daily briefing following French and Iranian elections The U.S. State Department called the Iranian election “not free or fair" and noted that “a significant number of Iranians chose not to participate at all.”…
World Jul 06 Reformist Pezeshkian elected president of Iran in runoff vote, defeating hard-liner Jalili Pezeshkian's win still sees Iran at a delicate moment, with tensions high in the Mideast over the Israel-Hamas war, Iran's advancing nuclear program, and a looming election in the United States that could put any chance of a detente between Tehran…
World Jul 03 Who is Saeed Jalili, the hard-line former negotiator seeking Iran’s presidency? Hard-line Iranian presidential candidate Saeed Jalili may have been Tehran's top nuclear negotiator for years, but he won no plaudits from Western diplomats sitting across the table as he repeatedly lectured them on everything while offering nothing.
World Jun 29 Iranian reformist Pezeshkian and hard-liner Jalili head to runoff presidential election Iran will hold a runoff presidential election pitting a little-known reformist against a hard-line former nuclear negotiator after results released Saturday showed the lowest-ever poll turnout in the Islamic Republic’s history.