U.S. Lifts Some Sanctions on Iranians Before Nuclear Talks

WASHINGTON — The Biden administration on Thursday lifted sanctions on three former Iranian government officials and two Iranian companies involved in the country’s oil industry, a conciliatory gesture days before a potentially decisive round of nuclear talks in Vienna. The

Offer Iran Covid PPE to pay off £400m debt and free Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe says actress

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Iran, Russia had obtained some Americans’ voter registration information, U.S. officials say

Iranian intelligence was responsible for a recent campaign of emails sent to intimidate Florida voters, the FBI announced Wednesday night, adding that Russia was also working to influence the election. The emails, which ominously instructed Democratic voters in Florida to switch to

Iran says fire at nuclear site caused by sabotage

Iran’s nuclear body has said that a fire last month at a major nuclear facility at Natanz was caused by sabotage. But the Iran’s Atomic Energy Organisation (IAEO) did not say who they believe is behind the incident. Some Iranian

Iran says U.S. arms embargo push at U.N. will fail – TV

DUBAI (Reuters) – U.S. efforts to get the U.N. Security Council to extend an arms embargo on Tehran would fail, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said in a televised speech on Wednesday, a day after U.S. officials circulated a revised proposal.

France confirms it will read black boxes of downed Ukrainian jet

PARIS/OTTAWA (Reuters) – France said on Friday it would download the black boxes from a Ukrainian airliner downed by an Iranian missile in January, easing a stand-off over where they should be read. France’s BEA crash investigation agency said it