The Trump administration is ending nearly all of the last vestiges of U.S. sanctions relief provided under the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, according to current and former U.S. officials and congressional aides.
A former mayor of Tehran is set to become the Speaker of Iran's new parliament despite serious allegations of corruption against him.
Richard Ratcliffe, the husband of Nazain Zaghari-Ratcliffe, on May 28 said he hopes Nazanin will be among the prisoners pardoned by Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei on the occasion of Eid al-Fitr.
Iran's Tasnim News Agency on May 28 reported that former lawmaker Mohammad Azizi has been detained to serve his 61 months sentence for corruption.
In a rare move, Iran's Central Bank (CBI) has forecast the annual inflation rate for the current year and says that it will drop to 22 from 41.2 in the previous year.
A second Iranian tanker carrying gasoline and oil derivatives arrived May 26 at crisis-stricken Venezuela's main oil refinery.
In a voice recording sent from Qarchak prison on May 25 Soheila Hejab, a political and civil rights activist, has said that agents of the Revolutionary Guard severely beat and arrested her after attending an appeals court hearing on May 23.
The representative of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei in Khuzestan has visited the families of those injured with plastic bullets on May 23 during a rally held to protest lack of drinking water.
France says a six-year prison term for a French-Iranian academic will make relation with Tehran difficult.
Foreign Ministry Spokesman Abbas Mousavi on May 25 dismissed the U.S. State Department allegations that the Iranian regime has carried out more than 360 assassinations and terrorist operations across the world since 1979.
Iran's Central Bank is scrambling to merge several vulnerable banks as their losses pile up to due to a weak banking system, corruption and sanctions.
Iran's Oil Minister Bijan Namdar Zanganeh on May 24 blamed Turkey for not showing interest in repairing a gas pipeline near the Iranian border blown up by the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in March.
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