U.S. President Donald Trump is threatening to ratchet up sanctions on Iran and has again denounced the 2015 nuclear deal Iran signed with world powers as the UN nuclear watchdog held an emergency meeting on Tehran's breach of the deal.
Iranian President Hassan Rohani has said that Britain will face "consequences" over the seizure of an Iranian supertanker last week and said Tehran's increase in uranium enrichment was for peaceful aims, according to Iranian media reports on July 10.
United States is moving forward with plans to form a military coalition to safeguard strategic shipping lanes off Iran and Yemen amid raised tensions with Iranian leaders.
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has announced the formation of a human rights panel that will review the role of human rights in American foreign policy.
Iran on July 8 called on European signatories of a landmark nuclear agreement to abstain from any rash move in response to Tehran's breaching the uranium-enrichment cap set by the 2015 deal.
Iran says a magnitude 5.7 earthquake hit a town in the country's southwest on July 8, damaging several buildings.
Iran says that, starting today, its uranium enrichment will surpass 3.6 percent, above the limit set under the 2015 nuclear deal with world powers.
The United States said it welcomed Britain’s seizure of an Iranian oil tanker near Gibraltar, labeling it “excellent news,” while Tehran condemned what it called the “illegal interception” of the vessel.
Iranian President Hassan Rohani has repeated that Tehran is prepared to "take the next step" and begin enriching uranium on July 7 at a level beyond the level of 3.67 percent concentration allowed in the 2015 nuclear deal with world powers.
President Donald Trump has said that Iran is "playing with fire" after Tehran announced it has exceeded its limit for low-enriched uranium allowed under a 2015 nuclear deal with world powers.
Iranian state TV has said it is up to Europe to protect Iran from U.S. sanctions and prevent it from reducing its compliance with the landmark 2015 nuclear agreement signed with world powers.
Iran is "secretly selling oil" by getting assistance from Malaysia to sidestep U.S. sanctions, reports say.
World powers meeting in Vienna have warned Iran to stick to terms of a nuclear accord during talks that Tehran have called the "last chance" to save the crumbling pact a year after the United States abandoned it.
U.S. President Donald Trump and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin have agreed to work on improving relations between the two superpowers in their first meeting since a report detailed Moscow’s organized campaign to influence U.S. elections.
Iran's president Hassan Rouhani in his first reaction to new U.S. sanctions defended the Supreme Leader and called the White House "mentally retarded".
U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order imposing "hard-hitting" sanctions on Iran, including on the office of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, as tensions between the two nations heat up.
U.S. President Donald Trump has signed a new executive order to impose fresh sanctions on Iran just days after the country shot down a United States drone.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said he wanted to build a “global coalition” on Iran as he headed to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (U.A.E.), two U.S. Sunni Arab allies in the Persian Gulf.
U.S. national security adviser John Bolton says Iran should not "mistake U.S. prudence and discretion for weakness."
U.S. news outlets are reporting that the United States launched cyberattacks against Iranian military computer systems on June 20, hours after Iran downed a U.S. surveillance drone.
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