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Khamenei said Iran might enrich uranium up to 60% purity, denied Iranian intent to seek nuclear weapons

US must still lift sanctions on Tehran to rescue the pact says Iranian foreign minister

Iran and the US have been at odds over who should take first step to revive 2015 accord

Tehran and Washington at odds over who should make the first step to revive the accord

We predict with confidence that diplomatic initiatives will result in a favourable outcome, says Ali Rabiei

Interior minister says 40% of 576 miles border has been fenced off

Tehran says its nuclear steps are reversible if Washington lifts the sanctions

Spike in coronavirus cases in western Iran and spread of UK variant have raised alarm in Iran

Britain, Germany and France urge Iran not to take any new 'non-compliant steps' on its nuclear programme

France, Britain, and Germany, all parties to the deal, said they were “deeply concerned”

British weekly says team of Israeli, Iranian nationals carried out the ambush on scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh

Says the Supreme Leader has explicitly said in his fatwa that nuclear weapons are against sharia law

Iran launched a vaccination drive against Covid-19, focussing initially on hospital intensive care personnel

“After verifying whether all sanctions have been lifted, then we will return to full compliance,” he said

Days after Washington announced an end to its support for Saudi-led military operations in Yemen

Referring to elections in Iran in June, Zarif says the election of a hardline president could further risk the deal

The reversal comes a day after President Joe Biden declared a halt to US support for the military campaign in Yemen

The Islamic Republic has denied involvement in the foiled plot

Former President of the United States Donald Trump pulled Washington out of the JCPOA in May 2018

Iran began its breaches in 2019 in response to Washington’s withdrawal in 2018 under then-President Donald Trump

Iran's foreign minister says political decisions cannot be made in a 'vacuum'

Investigators found an envelope with a letter addressed to Israeli ambassador, describing explosion as a 'trailer'

Travellers from other regions & countries will have to have tested negative before arrival in the country

Secretary of State Blinken is ‘building a dedicated team" to address Washington's relations with Iran’

If United States fulfils its obligations, we will fulfil our obligations in full, says FM Javad Zarif

The ships “caught red-handed” transferring oil from one to another says Iranian coast guard

The account was suspended after a tweet that hinted violence against former president Donald Trump

Ahead of the first anniversary of the killing of top military commander General Qassem Soleimani in the attack in Iraq

Trump administration’s had barred people from a number of mostly Muslim-majority nations from coming to US

In a televised cabinet meeting the Iranian president urges Biden to return to a 2015 nuclear deal

Blockages draw criticism from other members including Britain, the United States, European Union and India

The budget for peacekeeping operations is separate and totals around $6.5 billion

France earlier claimed that Tehran was in the process of building up its nuclear weapons

The three powers say that Iran’s production of uranium metal has potentially serious military implications

Gen Mohammad Baqeri says Iran would now be able to ‘respond to any hostile act in shortest time’

Iranian FM Zarif dismisses Pompeo's accusations as ‘warmongering lies’

Our people will not be a testing device for vaccine manufacturing companies, says president Hassan Rouhani

Iranian parliament passed a law in November that obliges government to halt inspections of its nuclear sites by IAEA

Last week Iran said it had allocated $150,000 for the families of each victims

Iran issued a warrant for Trump in June, asked Interpol to relay it as a red notice to police forces around the world

Iran wants Biden to lift sanctions that were imposed by outgoing President Donald Trump

Combat drones are being tested to be used as bombers and interceptors in surveillance missions, says Fars news agency

Enrichment decision coincides with increasing tensions between Iran and US in the last days of President Donald Trump

Iran maintains it has never sought nuclear weapons and never would, says its nuclear work only has civilian aims

Israel would never allow Tehran to build them says Netanyahu

The step is one of many in a law passed by Iran in response to the killing of the country’s top nuclear scientist

Soleimani, leader of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, was killed on January 3, 2020, in US drone strike at Baghdad airport

'Be careful of a trap,' Zarif tweets at Trump, saying 'any fireworks will backfire badly'

Iran’s FM accuses Trump of attempting to fabricate pretext to attack Iran, says Tehran would defend itself forcefully

The foreign minister says Iran will ‘openly and directly’ defend its people, security