The UAE says it will show restraint after attacks on tankers off its coast, while UN Secretary General condemns recent violence and calls for investigations.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has said Iran should stay in the nuclear agreement and should not take the first step to withdraw.
Germany and the Netherlands said Wednesday they were halting their training of soldiers in Iraq as tensions rise between neighboring Iran and the United States.
Britain’s Prime Minister Theresa May has said she is "deeply concerned" about the jailing in Iran of a British Council employee on espionage charges.
The International Energy Agency (IEA) says it is monitoring the situation of world oil supplies following the attack on tankers at Fujairah in the United Arab Emirates and drome attacks on Saudi oil installations.
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has urged authorities in Iran to lift the suspension of the reformist weekly magazine Seda and stop harassing critical media outlets.
The U.S. State Department on Wednesday ordered all non-emergency staff to leave its embassy in Baghdad and consulate in Arbil, as tensions mount between the United States and Iraq's neighbor Iran.
Saudi Arabia said Wednesday that attacks on two of its oil tankers and a major pipeline targeted not only its own security but that of the world's supplies.
A prominent Iranian physicist and human rights activists, Nargess Mohammadi, who is a political prisoner, has been taken from prison to hospital to undergo surgery.
U.S. President Donald Trump dismissed as “fake news” a report in The New York Times that said the White House is reviewing plans to possibly deploy up to 120,000 troops to the Middle East should Iran attack U.S. forces or accelerate work on nuclear weapons.
ran's foreign ministry on Tuesday May 14 denied reports that Tehran will stay in the nuclear deal with the West only if it can export at least 1.5 million barrels of oil per day.
The prosecutor of Isfahan in Iran has banned women's cycling in public by pronouncing it "a prohibited act" which will entail punishment based on the "Islamic Penal Code."
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