The European Union has proposed to Iran an extension to a deadline for invoking renewed United Nations sanctions, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday, as nuclear diplomacy appears to gain pace following a 12-day Mideast war last month.
Belgium’s parliament passed a resolution early Friday backing efforts to designate the Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) as a terrorist organization on the EU list, with lawmaker Darya Safai calling the move a strong political signal.
US President Donald Trump expects Iran to return to nuclear negotiations, saying that diplomacy is in Tehran's best interest, according to the State Department Spokeswoman Tammy Bruce.
Iran’s parliament on Wednesday demanded that the government halt all new negotiations with the United States unless strict preconditions are met, citing what lawmakers called Washington’s use of diplomacy as cover for military escalation.
The United States is in no hurry to enter talks with Iran, President Donald Trump said on Tuesday, pointing to last month’s American strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities as a source of leverage.
United Nations sanctions on Iran will be restored via the so-called "snapback mechanism" if no nuclear deal is reached by end of August, the US, British, French and German foreign ministers agreed in a Monday call, according to a report by Axios.
The European Union on Tuesday sanctioned eight individuals and one entity tied to Iran for what it described as serious human rights violations and acts of transnational repression including assassinations and enforced disappearances of dissidents abroad.
Iran could boost its uranium enrichment to 90%, weapons-grade level, and consider exiting the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) if European powers move to trigger the UN snapback sanctions mechanism, Tasnim News reported on Tuesday.
France, Britain, and Germany will activate the United Nations snapback mechanism against Iran by the end of August if no tangible progress is made on a nuclear deal by then, French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot said on Tuesday.
China's imports of Iranian crude oil surged in June to their highest level since March, reaching over 1.7 million barrels per day (bpd), as sellers accelerated shipments to avoid potential disruptions linked to Iran’s conflict with Israel, Bloomberg reported.
The US has warned Iraq it could face sanctions over what it called Iranian oil smuggling and ties to armed groups, threatening to freeze millions in revenue and target state oil firm SOMO, Iraqi media reported.
An Iranian national and US lawful permanent resident has been arrested on charges of illegally exporting electronics from the United States to Iran, violating US sanctions, the Justice Department said Friday.
The US Treasury on Wednesday announced a new round of Iran-related sanctions targeting companies from China to the United Arab Emirates over ties to previously sanctioned Iranian firms.
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian told US right-wing commentator Tucker Carlson that Israel was seeking to embroil the United States in a Mideast 'forever war', in his first international interview since US and Israeli attacks on Iran.
US advocacy group United Against Nuclear Iran (UANI) on Friday called on the United States to sanction Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei over fatwas from senior clerics which appear to call for the death of US President Donald Trump.
The International Atomic Energy Agency said on Friday that its team of inspectors had safely departed Iran to return to its headquarters in Vienna, after a new law barred cooperation with the UN body.
White House envoy Steve Witkoff is planning to meet Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi in Oslo next week to relaunch nuclear talks, Axios reported Thursday, citing two sources familiar with the preparations.
The US Treasury on Thursday sanctioned an international network smuggling billions of dollars in Iranian oil disguised as Iraqi.
Tehran remains committed to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and has not ended cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), despite new legislation passed in response to Israeli and US military strikes, Iranian foreign minister said Thursday.
Iran’s nuclear program has been set back by as much as two years following US airstrikes on key sites last month, the Pentagon said on Wednesday.
A Belgian parliamentary committee has approved a resolution backing the designation of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a terrorist organization, MP Darya Safai said on Wednesday.
IAEA inspectors were still on the ground in Iran as of Wednesday and had not been instructed to leave, a diplomat familiar with the agency’s operations told the Associated Press, after Tehran enacted a law suspending cooperation with the UN nuclear watchdog.