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Iran has taken steps toward beginning negotiations with the United States in parallel with talks with the UN nuclear watchdog, the state-linked daily Farhikhtegan reported on Monday.

Iran’s suspension of cooperation under a new domestic law cannot override its binding international commitments, IAEA chief Rafael Grossi told governors on Monday, opening the agency’s quarterly meeting in Vienna.

Canada-based activist Hamed Esmaeilion on Sunday urged Iranians worldwide to take part in protests marking the third anniversary of the death of Mahsa (Jina) Amini, whose killing in police custody in 2022 sparked the Woman, Life, Freedom uprising.

Iran’s foreign ministry said Monday it will never negotiate on its defense capabilities, even as a third round of talks with the International Atomic Energy Agency concluded and further exchanges with the European Union over snapback remain under review.

US counter-narcotics operations off Venezuela are part of a broader drive to dismantle an Iran- and Hezbollah-linked drug-finance network, officials told Fox News Digital on Sunday.

Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Monday that Tehran is committed to Islamic unity and has no disputes with other Muslim nations, urging countries in the region to resist efforts by outside powers to sow division.

Chicken has become a measure of the Islamic Republic’s failure to stabilize basic goods, parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf said Sunday, amid reports of a sharp drop in average meat consumption, with some citizens eating none at all.

Iran plans to launch four satellites by the end of the Iranian year in mid-March 2026 and open its new spaceport in its southeastern city of Chabahar, the head of the country’s space agency said on Sunday.

Iran's Supreme Leader on Sunday warned against what he called an enemy plot to impose a harmful “no war, no peace” situation on Iran, over two months after a US-brokered ceasefire halted Israeli attacks but left public fears of renewed conflict.

A drone fired by Yemen’s Tehran-backed Houthi rebels struck the arrivals hall of Israel’s Ramon International Airport near the southern city of Eilat on Sunday, injuring one person and forcing a two-hour suspension of flights, Israeli authorities said.

Australia’s decision to expel the Islamic Republic's ambassador to Canberra was an unjustified move to please Israel, Iran's foreign ministry spokesman told Australian broadcaster Channel 9, blaming what he called a Mossad plot.

Iran’s parliament security and foreign policy committee has approved a bill to strengthen the armed forces against Israel, mandating billions in funding from oil revenues, frozen foreign assets and air transit fees, its spokesperson said on Sunday.

Issuing motorcycle licenses to women requires changes to regulations and law, Iran’s traffic police chief said on Sunday, adding the force is waiting for a formal government order before taking action.

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi and his Venezuelan counterpart YvánGil Pinto discussed bilateral ties and recent US military activity in the Caribbean in a phone call, Iranian state media reported on Sunday.

Israel’s former Mossad chief Yossi Cohen said he had drawn up plans to assassinate Iranian Quds Force commander Qassem Soleimani, but the idea was abandoned over fears it would trigger a war with Tehran. Soleimani was later killed in a US drone strike in Iraq in 2020.

Britain, France and Germany made a big mistake by triggering the snapback to reimpose UN sanctions on Tehran, but Iran would be ready for an agreement if the Europeans reverse course, the Iranian foreign minister wrote in an opinion piece for The Guardian.

Gunmen shot dead a local Revolutionary Guards intelligence commander in the town of Pishin, Rask county, in Iran’s Sistan-Baluchestan province on Saturday night, a rights group reported.

Iran’s parliament will on Sunday debate an emergency three-priority bill on withdrawing from the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and ending cooperation with the UN atomic watchdog, a senior lawmaker said, as Tehran faces renewed pressure over its nuclear program.

Iran’s AnzaliLagoon, a wetland on the Caspian coast, is facing “serious challenges and human-inflicted wounds” and could disappear without urgent action, provincial governor Hadi Haghshenas said, according to state media.

Iraq’s prime minister has ordered the formation of a high-level committee to investigate allegations of corruption and smuggling of Iran's oil after the US Treasury sanctioned a network accused of exporting Iranian crude under falsified Iraqi origin.

Tehran will not return to the negotiating table under the same conditions that existed before the June war with Israel, Iran’s foreign minister said Saturday, days after Europe triggered the snapback leaving Iran to engage with the US or face UN sanctions.