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Iran has asked Oman to intervene and help persuade the United States to ease its hardline position in the ongoing nuclear negotiations, two diplomatic sources in Tehran told Iran International.

Iran’s Revolutionary Guards and Azerbaijani special forces began a joint military exercise in Nagorno-Karabakh on Sunday in a rare display of bilateral military cooperation in the South Caucasus region.

The United Kingdom summoned Iran’s ambassador Ali Mousavi on Monday after three Iranian nationals were charged with offences under the National Security Act, a spokesperson for the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) said.

The European Union and the United Kingdom on Monday voiced deep concern over Iran’s expanding nuclear program and its continued imprisonment of foreign nationals, according to a joint statement issued after high-level talks.

The United States on Tuesday imposed fresh sanctions on another Chinese refinery and multiple logistics firms for facilitating the sale and shipment of Iranian oil, expanding its efforts to squeeze Tehran’s revenues.

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei on Saturday endorsed chants of “Death to America” during a speech to workers, just a day before Iranian officials are set to resume nuclear negotiations with the United States.

A member of the Iranian parliament’s Resistance fraction — a grouping of ultraconservative lawmakers — has called for sanctions on US ships in the Persian Gulf, accusing Washington of escalating pressure during ongoing nuclear talks.

The head of Iran’s judiciary said clerics and Basij paramilitary forces were deployed to detention centers during the 2022 Woman, Life, Freedom protests in what he said was a move to offer guidance to detainees, including schoolchildren ...

The arrest of five Iranian nationals on terror charges across the UK has led to renewed calls by lawmakers to designate Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a terrorist organization.

Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi is set to visit New Delhi on Thursday amid rising tensions between India and Pakistan after last month’s attack on tourists in disputed Kashmir.

At least one of the five Iranian nationals arrested in the United Kingdom over the weekend in connection with an alleged terror plot has close ties to the Islamic Republic, The Telegraph reported citing an informed source.