Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is headed to Iran, saying he hopes to help ease tensions between Washington and Tehran.
Iran has agreed to hand over a Lebanese national Nizar Zakka imprisoned for years to Lebanon, an Iranian judiciary spokesman has confirmed.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is set to meet Iranian President Hassan Rohani and Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei this week in the first visit to Tehran by a sitting Japanese prime minister in more than four decades.
The New York Times says that authorities in Iran have barred the newspaper's Tehran-based correspondent from working for the past four months.
German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas is set to meet with Iranian officials on June 10 to explore options for preserving the 2015 nuclear deal between Iran and world powers.
Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Norway have told the UN Security Council that the recent attack on four oil tankers off the U.A.E. coast was a “sophisticated and coordinated” operation most likely conducted by a “state actor.”
The head of Russia's largest state-owned oil company has claimed the United States is using sanctions against energy-producing countries to find markets for growing output from Texas.
The New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has strongly condemned the sentencing of Iranian journalist Masud Kazemi on national security charges and called for his immediate release.
During his state visit to Britain, U.S. President Donald Trump said that Washington and London are "determined to ensure" Iran does not develop nuclear weapons and stops supporting terrorism.
Human Rights Watch (HRW) has accused the Syrian-Russian "military alliance" of using a "cocktail of internationally banned and indiscriminate weapons" in attacks on civilians in northwestern Syria.
Amnesty International has blasted the Iranian authorities for handing down a reported 30-year prison sentence and 111 lashes to a human rights lawyer, calling it an "outrageous injustice."
Syrian state media said government air defenses responded to an act of "aggression" by Israel against an air base in the central Homs Province.
In one of his harshest attacks yet on Iran, King Salman of Saudi Arabia accused Tehran of supporting “terrorist militias” that he said were a threat to global oil supplies and regional security.
Rallies were held across Iran to mark Quds, or Jerusalem, Day, on May 31.
The United States will respond with military force if Tehran attacks its interests, the U.S. special representative for Iran has warned, adding that actions recently taken by Washington in the Middle East had a "deterrent effect."
Top U.S. and Russian diplomats are considering measures that could eventually allow Syria "to move back into the international community" if it agrees to a series of steps to help end the country's long civil war.
The United States and key Middle East allies Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates stepped up pressure on Iran, warning against any attacks and taking measures to bolster cooperation to counter Tehran's regional activities.
U.S. national-security adviser John Bolton says he has arrived in the United Arab Emirates (U.A.E.) for talks on "regional security matters."
The United States will send 1,500 soldiers to the Middle East to bolster its forces amid rising tensions with Iran.
Amid escalating tensions with Washington, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has warned of anarchy in the Middle East if world powers do not unite to stop what he called U.S. aggression.
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