Iran

The odds are stacked against an Iran nuclear deal being reached this year — even if negotiations restart, according to political risk consultancy Eurasia Group.

Tensions are high in the region and Iran’s recently-elected government has not held back in expressing its animosity toward the West.

Meng Wanzhou was arrested in Canada in December 2018 as the U.S. sought to extradite her on bank and wire fraud charges.

The speech, delivered remotely in a pre-recorded video message late Tuesday, marked a significantly harsher tone than that of Raisi’s predecessor.

An online account describing itself as a group of hackers has shared footage of Iran’s notorious Evin prison with The Associated Press

UNESCO’s World Heritage Committee just named 34 sites to the prestigious World Heritage List, representing two years’ worth of site nominations.

Iran’s Sajad Ganjzadeh won gold after Saudi Arabia’s Tareg Hamedi was disqualified for an amazing kick that rendered Ganjzadeh unconscious at the iconic Budokan.

Iran has sworn in Ebrahim Raisi, a protégé of the country’s supreme leader, as its new president.

Raisi’s swearing in follows drone strikes on a tanker in the Gulf that have been blamed on Iran, and a threat of attack from Israel.

U.S. officials say they are still looking into a situation in the Gulf of Oman, where there’s one hijacked ship and the status of several others is unclear.

Negotiators made “quite substantial” progress in talks over the Iran nuclear deal before discussions came to a halt.

Four Iranian intelligence agents and a co-conspirator living in the U.S. allegedly plotted to kidnap a journalist and human rights activist from Brooklyn after criticizing their country’s regime, according to federal charges announced Tuesday.

Analysts say the most probable outcome is for an increase of around 500,000 barrels per day in August.

President Joe Biden sought to assure Israel that he would not tolerate a nuclear Iran as he met with outgoing Israeli President Reuven Rivlin at the White House

The airstrikes are the second round ordered by President Joe Biden against Iranian-backed militias since he began his term in office.

 The Biden administration is considering lifting sanctions on Iran’s supreme leader as part of negotiations aimed at reviving the 2015 nuclear deal, a former U.S. official and two people familiar with the matter told NBC News. U.S. and Iranian negotiators have discussed the possible move in indirect talks in Vienna, as part of a wider set of compromises that...

Iranian authorities foiled a “sabotage attack” against one of its civilian nuclear facilities, local news site Nournews reported, offering no further details.

Oil markets are now watching the nuclear deal talks and the hardline Raisi’s messages to glean what they might mean for global supply and prices.

Iran’s state TV says the country’s sole nuclear power plant has undergone a temporary emergency shutdown

Iran has only one important voter in Friday’s election — Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said Behnam Ben Taleblu of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.