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UK Has ‘Abandoned’ US-Briton Held in Iran, Daughter Says

The UK government has “abandoned” Morad Tahbaz, an environmental campaigner held in Iran, his daughter said on Wednesday, a month after two other UK-Iranians were freed and returned. Tahbaz, 69, who holds British, US and Iranian citizenship, remains in prison in Tehran while Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe,43, and Anoosheh Ashoori, 67, flew…

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Iran Summons Afghan Charge d'Affaires After Unrest

Iran summoned the Afghan charge d'affaires on Tuesday after a violent protest at its diplomatic mission in western Afghanistan. Tehran also announced the closure until further notice of its Afghan missions, where other protests had also occurred. On Monday, dozens of Afghans chanting "Death to Iran" demonstrated outside the Iranian…

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Iran Says Preliminary Deal Reached on Frozen Funds

The Iranian foreign minister said Wednesday that a preliminary deal had been reached with a foreign bank over frozen funds belonging to Iran. "An accord was concluded with a foreign bank to release a part of our financial claims," Hossein Amir-Abdollahian said at a news conference. "This is a preliminary…

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Saudi, Kuwait to develop gas field despite Iran condemnation

Tehran says deal contravenes ‘previously held negotiations’ and it ‘reserves its right to exploit’ the field.

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Iran supreme leader optimistic though nuclear talks stalled

Iran’s supreme leader is insisting negotiations over Tehran’s tattered nuclear deal “are going ahead properly.”

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Iran summons Afghan envoy over attack on diplomatic missions

Iran has summoned Afghanistan's envoy in Tehran over attacks the previous day on Iranian diplomatic missions in the neighboring country

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Iran summons Afghan envoy after protesters throw rocks at diplomatic missions

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Iran Summons Afghan Envoy over Attack on Diplomatic Missions

Iran summoned the Afghan envoy to Tehran on Tuesday and is stopping all consular services in Afghanistan, Iranian state TV reported, a day after protesters threw rocks at Iranian diplomatic missions in Kabul and Herat. The protests came after videos posted on Twitter in recent days showed young Afghan refugees…

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Analysis-Politics, not substance, seen guiding U.S. and Iran on terror listing

One of the last obstacles to reviving the 2015 Iran nuclear deal - Tehran's demand to remove its Revolutionary Guards from a U.S. terrorism list - is more an issue of politics than substance, analysts said.

Reuters

Iran MPs Set Conditions for Reviving 2015 Nuclear Deal Amid Stalled Talks

Iranian lawmakers have set conditions for the revival of a 2015 nuclear pact, including legal guarantees approved by the US Congress that Washington would not quit it, Iranian state media reported on Sunday. Iran and the United States have engaged in indirect talks in Vienna over the past year to…

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Senior US Official: Biden Won’t Remove Iran’s Guards From Terror List

The Biden administration plans to reject an Iranian demand that the United States lift its designation of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terrorist organization as a condition for renewing the 2015 nuclear agreement, a senior administration official told The Washington Post. "The onus is on Iran whether we…

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President Raisi Says Iran Will Not Retreat from 'Nuclear Rights'

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi said on Saturday Tehran would not give up its right to develop its nuclear industry for peaceful purposes, and all parties involved in talks to revive the 2015 nuclear accord should respect this. Eleven months of indirect talks between Iran and the United States in Vienna…

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President Raisi says Iran will not retreat from nuclear rights

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Iran’s president vows to continue nuclear activities

President Ebrahim Raisi says Iran will continue nuclear development activities as talks to revive Tehran’s nuclear deal with world powers remain stalled

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Iran's president vows to continue nuclear activities

President Ebrahim Raisi says Iran will continue nuclear development activities as talks to revive Tehran’s nuclear deal with world powers remain stalled

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Iran Imposes Sanctions on 24 Americans as Nuclear Talks Stall

Iran said on Saturday it had imposed sanctions on 24 more Americans, including former Army Chief of Staff George Casey and former President Donald Trump's attorney Rudy Giuliani, as months of talks to revive a 2015 nuclear deal have stalled. Almost all the people named were officials who served during…

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Pro-Khamenei Scholar: Nuclear Deal Won’t Stop Attacks against US Forces

Tehran’s Friday prayer interim imam, Kazem Seddiqi, ruled out any link between the Iranian nuclear talks and the halt of attacks against US forces in the region. The attacks against US forces will “continue” until the end of their “illegal” presence in the region, Iranian websites quoted Seddiqi as saying.…

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Cities across Iran engulfed in thick layers of dust, pollutants

Tehran was the most polluted city in the world on Friday with air quality hazardous and visibility very low.

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Roll Call

Deja vu permeates as lawmakers ready to debate Iran nuclear deal - Roll Call

The Biden administration is close to striking an agreement with Iran, and lobbying machinery is cranking back into action on Capitol Hill.

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Top US General Against Removing Iran's Quds Force from Terrorist List

The US Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Mark Milley, said that he does not support removing the Quds Force, the foreign arm of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), from the list of foreign terrorist organizations. "I believe the IRGC is a terrorist organization, and I do…

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Democrats Criticize Revival of Iran Nuclear Deal

A year after the Vienna negotiations, lawmakers are strongly voicing their opposition against US President Joe Biden's quest to return to the nuclear agreement. The opposition came this time from the Democratic Party, which has significant implications, although it has not effectively affected any potential deal with Iran. Democrats held…

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Iran Moves Machines for Making Centrifuge Parts to Natanz, Says UN Nuclear Watchdog

Iran has moved all its machines that make centrifuge parts from its mothballed workshop at Karaj to its sprawling Natanz site just six weeks after it set up another site at Isfahan to make the same parts, the UN nuclear watchdog said on Wednesday. Iran granted International Atomic Energy Agency…

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Iran says it gave long-sought answers to UN atomic watchdog

Iran says it supplied the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog with documents related to the discovery of uranium particles at former undeclared sites in the country

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Iranian MPs Ask for Stronger Guarantees in Vienna Talks

In a letter to their ally, hardline conservative President Ibrahim Raisi, a majority of Iranian parliamentarians demanded “stronger guarantees” from the US and “maintaining the red lines” in reviving the nuclear agreement. The MPs' demands came at a time when Tehran and Washington are exchanging blame for postponing negotiations. More…

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Iran nuclear chief says Tehran has given IAEA documents on outstanding issues

Iran has handed over documents related to outstanding issues to the U.N. nuclear watchdog, Iranian nuclear chief Mohammad Eslami said on Wednesday, as Tehran demands closure of the agency's investigation into uranium particles found at three undeclared sites.

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