The Islamic Republic President, Hassan Rouhani, has offered his congratulations to the new UK Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, expressing hope that bilateral relations will further develop during his tenure.
Iran on Sunday condemned as "provocative" a British proposal for a European-led naval mission to escort tankers in the Persian Gulf, amid soaring tensions over the seizure of ships.
Iran's Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi has met with representatives from Britain, France, Germany, Russia, and China to discuss how to salvage the 2015 nuclear deal between Tehran and world powers.
Israel and the U.S. have successfully tested the Arrow-3 anti-ballistic missile air defense system in Alaska, which can be an effective measure against Iranian missiles.
The remaining signatories to the Iran nuclear deal will meet in Vienna on Sunday to try again to find a way of saving the accord amid mounting tensions between Tehran and Washington.
An "informed military source" in Iran has said missile tests are "normal measures to fulfill the country's defense needs," local news outlets report.
Two Iranian ships stranded for weeks at a Brazilian port will be able to set sail on Saturday after the firm chartering the vessels obtained court rulings obliging state oil company Petroleo Brasileiro SA to refuel them.
A top Omani diplomat was in Iran on Saturday for bilateral talks after weeks of volatility over the Strait of Hormuz, the passageway for a fifth of all globally traded crude.
ran has freed nine Indian crew members of a Panama-flagged tanker it seized this month, the Indian foreign ministry said on Saturday, and it appealed for the release of three remaining crew members held from the same ship.
Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) says one of its soldiers was killed in clashes on July 26 with a number of "anti-revolutionaries" near the western border with Iraq.
Lebanon's heavily armed, Iran-backed Hezbollah group on Friday denied using Beirut's sea port to import arms in response to an accusation by Israel's United Nations envoy this week.
Azerbaijan rescued all nine crew members of an Iranian cargo vessel on Friday before it sunk in the Caspian Sea, Azerbaijan's state maritime agency said.
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