Iran Sanctions

Iran said on Wednesday its new agreement with the UN nuclear watchdog does not currently allow inspectors into nuclear sites and will only move to define any access in later talks, adding the accord’s survival depends on Western powers refraining from restoring UN sanctions.

Iran’s suspension of cooperation under a new domestic law cannot override its binding international commitments, IAEA chief Rafael Grossi told governors on Monday, opening the agency’s quarterly meeting in Vienna.

Iran’s foreign ministry said Monday it will never negotiate on its defense capabilities, even as a third round of talks with the International Atomic Energy Agency concluded and further exchanges with the European Union over snapback remain under review.

US counter-narcotics operations off Venezuela are part of a broader drive to dismantle an Iran- and Hezbollah-linked drug-finance network, officials told Fox News Digital on Sunday.

Chicken has become a measure of the Islamic Republic’s failure to stabilize basic goods, parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf said Sunday, amid reports of a sharp drop in average meat consumption, with some citizens eating none at all.

Britain, France and Germany made a big mistake by triggering the snapback to reimpose UN sanctions on Tehran, but Iran would be ready for an agreement if the Europeans reverse course, the Iranian foreign minister wrote in an opinion piece for The Guardian.

Iraq’s prime minister has ordered the formation of a high-level committee to investigate allegations of corruption and smuggling of Iran's oil after the US Treasury sanctioned a network accused of exporting Iranian crude under falsified Iraqi origin.

At least five people have died in recent months in incidents linked to electricity outages across Iran, the reformist daily Etemad reported on Saturday.

Billions of dollars belonging to South Africa’s MTN Group, the founding investor of Irancell, Iran’s second-largest mobile operator, remain blocked in Iran under US sanctions, the company confirmed in a recent financial update.

Exit from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty would not determine whether Iran faces war, an Iranian parliament member said on Thursday.

Iran’s top security official Ali Larijani and British national security adviser Jonathan Powell discussed nuclear talks and handling the snapback sanctions process in a phone call, domestic media reported on Wednesday, adding that both sides agreed to keep negotiations going.

The US Treasury Department said on Wednesday that international freight forwarder Fracht FWO Inc. has agreed to pay $1.61 million to settle violations of US sanctions, including dealings involving Iran’s Mahan Air, a carrier long accused by Washington of supporting terrorism.

US Senator Tom Cotton on Wednesday called on the FBI and Defense Department to investigate what he called an Iranian campaign to influence US policy, branding it a serious national security concern.

President Donald Trump said his decision to bomb Iranian nuclear sites in June forestalled a nuclear war and provided a major boon to Israel, adding new superlatives to his positive assessment of the attacks.

The US Treasury on Tuesday imposed sanctions on an Iraqi-Kittitian businessman and a network of companies and vessels accused of smuggling Iranian oil disguised as Iraqi crude.

Iran is passing off its crude oil as Iraqi exports to evade US sanctions, according to new evidence that contradicts Baghdad’s denials.

Inspectors have completed a brief visit to Bushehr, as Tehran readies for another round of negotiations with the International Atomic Energy Agency, Iran’s atomic energy chief said on Sunday.

An attack by Israeli-linked hackers on Iran's top cryptocurrency exchange amid a 12-day war in June focused their targeting on accounts held by officials and their so-called hot and cold wallets, a source told Iran International on Friday.