Triple emergency motions proposed by a number of MPs, who are opponents of President Hassan Rouhani, to suspend Iran’s recent contract with giant oil company Total was taken off the parliamentary agenda on July 12.
The meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump's son and a Russian attorney, and the failure to disclose it, add new urgency to the push to pass a Russian sanctions bill that has been stalled in Congress, Reuters quotes lawmakers and aides on Tuesday.
An Iranian cancer researcher arriving in the United States to start work at a prominent Boston hospital was detained this week at Logan International Airport, the hospital said on July 11.
The London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says it has received "confirmed information" from sources within the Islamic State (IS) terrorist group that IS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is dead.
The United States and Qatar have signed an agreement on combating terrorism and its financing during a visit to Doha by U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, his senior adviser R.C. Hammond has told reporters.
Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Bahram Qassemi has called for the expansion of a partial ceasefire in Syria to cover all the country if the existing one is successful.
The Iranian government is planning to announce tenders for the exploration of 14 oil-and-gas blocks over the next three months, a top executive at Iran's NIOC state oil company has said.
Iranian authorities have detained former Vice President Hamid Baghaei, according to the media adviser for former President Mahmud Ahmadinejad.
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