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A senior Emirati diplomat will personally convey to his Iranian counterparts in Tehran a letter from US President Trump urging a nuclear deal, Iran’s foreign ministry said on Wednesday.

China will host discussions with Russia and Iran on the Iranian nuclear issue in Beijing on March 14, the Chinese foreign ministry announced on Wednesday.

Former Iranian world wrestling champion Sardar Pashaei has condemned the arrest of his sister for speaking out against the Islamic theocracy's discriminatory laws on International Women’s Day.

Iran's President Masoud Pezeshkian lambasted US President Donald Trump's threat of military action if Tehran did not come to a nuclear deal, saying the Islamic Republic would not be forced to negotiate.

Iranian authorities have ramped up an effort to control female singers, blocking Instagram accounts belonging to multiple artists in recent days under judiciary orders.

The European Union's top diplomat on Tuesday called for an international nuclear deal with Iran along the lines of a 2015 agreement, days after US President Donald Trump mooted military action to dismantle it.

An Iranian researcher has named a newly discovered praying mantis species Sinaiella azadi, or freedom mantis in Persian, to highlight the importance of scientific freedom as domestic repression and obstacles to cross-border collaboration mount.

The recent admission by a former Revolutionary Guards minister about orchestrating the killing of dissidents on European soil in the 1980s and 1990s shed light on Tehran's ruthless suppression of opponents abroad.

Less than a week before the start of the new Iranian year, the government has yet to set new wages, which are adjusted annually for tens of millions of public and private sector workers.

Iran's First Vice President Mohammad Reza Aref said Tehran will not seek permission from any country for its nuclear activities, while rejecting allegations that it is pursuing nuclear weapons.

The Trump administration will ensure the enforcement of sanctions on Iranian oil exports in a bid to return to the levels seen in the President's first term after sales rose under Biden, according to the country's energy minister.

Sweden faces an escalating security threat from Iran, which has intensified its intelligence activities and use of criminal networks within the country, the Swedish Security Police (SAPO) warned on Tuesday.

While Iran denies receiving a letter from President Donald Trump demanding nuclear talks, statements by Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, the foreign ministry and Iran's UN ambassador Saeed Iravani appear to be responses to it.

The United Nations Security Council will meet behind closed doors on Wednesday over Iran's growing stock of nearly weapons grade uranium, diplomats said on Monday.

As geopolitical priorities are scrambled and reordered worldwide in the early days of the Trump administration, a new role in mediating the US-Iran nuclear standoff may be set to give Russia a strong new card in the Middle East.

The US State Department is offering up to $15 million for information that could disrupt financial networks supporting a drone-production arm of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps' elite Qods Force.

Two men accused of being members of the Russian mob are standing trial in a US federal court over an alleged Iran-backed plot to kill Iranian-American feminist activist Masih Alinejad on US soil.

With foreign companies absent, Iran has signed a contract with domestic firms to implement pressure-boosting measures at South Pars, the world's largest gas field, which supplies 70% of the country's gas.

A top former Revolutionary Guards commander has revealed that revenue from arms deals helped finance Iran's assassinations of political opponents overseas, in a shock admission which his office swiftly retracted as a sign of debilitation after brain surgery.

The 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) remains the essential foundation for any future negotiations on Iran's nuclear program, Moscow's envoy to the UN nuclear watchdog said on Monday.

The Iranian government has just three months to finally implement Article 64 of the constitution which mandates an increase in the number of parliamentary seats, forcing better representation for Iranians in underrepresented regions.