Foreign relations of Iran

International

US Accuses Iran of ‘alarming Provocations’

US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has accused Iran of "alarming ongoing provocations" aimed at destabilising the...

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Iran Guards Member Begins Work As Iraq Ambassador

In a sign of the growing regional influence of Iran's Revolutionary Guards, a close advisor to its foreign operations...

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Trump Administration To Review Iran Sanctions Relief

US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said he has told Congress of plans to review whether sanctions relief given to Iran...

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Iran’s Rouhani Defends Economic Record Ahead of Election

Iran's President Hassan Rouhani defended his economic record in a press conference on Monday but stopped short of...

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Iran Denies Meddling In Arab World

Iran strongly denied any meddling on Thursday after Arab leaders condemned "foreign interference" in their affairs in a...

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Iran To Appeal Seizure of 9/11 Compensation Money

Iran's central bank said Sunday it will appeal Luxembourg's decision to freeze $1.6 billion of its assets, which the US...

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Iran To Sanction 15 US Companies For Israel Ties

Iran will impose sanctions on 15 US companies for their support for Israel and its "terrorist actions", state news...

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Luxembourg Court Denies Iran Demand To Unblock Assets

A Luxembourg court on Wednesday denied a demand by Tehran to repatriate $1.6 billion of Iranian assets claimed by the...

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Iran’s Supreme Leader Calls For ‘resistance Economy’

Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Monday reiterated a call for a "resistance economy" that prioritises...

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Iran Rejects US Moves To Seize 9/11 Compensation Money

Iran said Tuesday it was "completely unfair" for US lawyers to try to seize its overseas assets as compensation for the...

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US Hasn’t Decided Yet On Iran Nuclear Deal

The new US administration has not yet decided what to do about the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, the head of the UN atomic...

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France To Encourage Banks To Work With Iran

France wants to encourage the "normalisation" of banking relations with Iran to improve economic relations with the...

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Iran’s S-300 Air Defence System ‘operational’

Iran's advanced S-300 air defence system, delivered by Russia following a July 2015 nuclear deal after years of delay,...

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IMF Says Sanctions On Iran Dampening Economic Sentiment

Uncertainty surrounding the sanctions on Iran and its relations with the United States pose a risk to the oil-producing...

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Iran Requests 950 Tonnes of Uranium From Kazakhstan

Iran's nuclear chief said Saturday that the country had asked to buy 950 tonnes of uranium concentrate from Kazakhstan...

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Iran In New Military Drills Despite US Warnings

Iran's elite Revolutionary Guard is to conduct military drills next week, a senior commander announced Saturday,...

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Iran Says Israel ‘biggest Threat’ To World Peace

Iran said Thursday that Israel's atomic arsenal is the biggest danger to world peace, a day after US President Donald...

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Trump Promises Israel That Iran Will Never Get Bomb

President Donald Trump hailed the United States' "unbreakable" bond with Israel on Wednesday and promised Prime...

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Iran To Expand Military Spending, Develop Missiles

Iranian lawmakers approved plans on Monday to expand military spending to five percent of the budget, including...