Britain's Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt says the oil tanker will be released if there if the Islamic Republic provides a guarantee that it will not sail to Syria.
Panama will withdraw its flag from more vessels that violate sanctions and international legislation, the country's maritime authority told Reuters, following the removal of about 60 ships linked to Iran and Syria from the Panamanian registry in recent months.
A senior EU official told reporters on July 12 that it is not time yet to use the so-called trigger mechanism determined in the nuclear deal with Iran to settle differences with the country.
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has expressed concern over three imprisoned Iranian journalists who have been on hunger strike for weeks.
The Pentagon said Thursday it was discussing military escorts for vessels in the Gulf one day after armed Iranian boats threatened a British oil tanker.
Iran may have stood down from its hard-line stance that conditioned negotiations with the United States to Washington's returning to the nuclear deal it had left in May 2018 before imposing hard sanctions on Tehran.
A banking corruption trial in Iran reveals more dirt on government officials as a former parliament speaker's office is accused of taking millions of dollars in bribes.
Iran's release last month of Nizar Zakka, a Lebanese businessman with U.S. permanent residency, after four years in prison was meant as an opening for U.S.-Iranian talks, according to three Western sources familiar with the issue.
Prague is now host to a photo exhibition of an Iranian award-winning photojournalist, Hassan Sarbakhshian. Through his works, Sarbakhshian looks into the lives of the Jewish minority still in Iran and those who decided to leave for Israel. Radio Farda's Kambiz Keramati reports.
In its latest report the Statistical Center of Iran (SCI) says that the "misery index" in the country reached 39% last winter, whereas a year earlier it stood at 19.4%.
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.
Controversy over operating vast computer networks using subsidized cheap electricity in Iran to mine bitcoins shows no sign of abetting.
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