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The family of a US citizen detained for nearly seven years in Tehran pleaded Tuesday for his furlough to be with his father, who it said needs a new, urgent surgery and cannot leave Iran. Baquer Namazi, 85, requires surgery within weeks to clear life-threatening blockages in his left carotid…

Washington (AFP) - The family of a US citizen detained for nearly seven years in Tehran pleaded Tuesday for his furlough to be with his father, who it said needs a new, urgent surgery and cannot leave Iran.

Tehran has maintained that the ball is in the US court after its response to Washington last week.

The United States military says it flew a pair of nuclear-capable B-52 long-distance bombers over the Middle East in a show of force, the latest such mission in the region as tensions remain high between Washington and Tehran

The US Special Representative for Iran, Robert Malley, is scheduled to brief members of the House Foreign Relations Committee on Sept.

One year after ultraconservative President Ebrahim Raisi came to power, Iranian authorities are targeting the country's cinema. The July arrests of directors Jafar Panahi and Mohammad Rasoulof, both icons abroad, reflect the pressure that filmmakers and actors are facing. The Iranian film community has been asking "who will be next?"…

Democratic and Republican legislators have stepped up their attacks on a possible nuclear agreement being reached with Iran. Many members of Congress have expressed increasing concern about the path taken by the Biden administration, and its attempt to marginalize Congress in ongoing negotiations to revive the 2015 deal. Partisan frustration…

Tehran, for the second time since the EU presented its draft for reviving the Iran nuclear deal, has given a response to Western parties.

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has been barring Iran for three years now from retaliating to Israeli raids on Syria to avert an escalation, reported Israel’s Haaretz. Assad reportedly made the order directly to Iran’s slain Quds Force commander Qassem Soleimani and it has largely held. Soleimani was killed in a…