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Iranian parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf said on Friday that by the sixth day of a 12-day conflict with Israel, US vice president JD Vance was seeking talks to end the war.

Iran’s nuclear strategy has entered an ambiguous new phase, said veteran non-proliferation expert Mark Fitzpatrick, and Israel’s attacks in June could have left intact Tehran's ability to pivot toward a bomb if it so chose.

US President Donald Trump on Friday said that the United States deprived Iran of its nuclear capabilities with airstrikes in June, setting the stage for a transformed region.

A state-appointed cleric's request to set aside a beachside plot on the southern holiday island of Kish for his office stoked criticism this week after the proposal appeared online.

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said on Friday that the United States and three European powers have “killed” the Cairo nuclear agreement through what he called a sequence of hostile actions.

Land subsidence has intensified across Iran in recent years, with excessive groundwater extraction, drought and climate change driving the sharpest declines in Khorasan Razavi, Isfahan and southern Kerman, the country’s crisis-management spokesman said on Friday.

Tehran’s air reached the unhealthy for sensitive groups range on Friday as pollutant concentrations climbed and meteorologists issued an orange alert for six major cities, warning that stagnant conditions could drive indices toward the dangerous threshold in the coming days.

Iran has made significant investments to restore its ballistic missile capacity, increasing the likelihood of renewed war with Israel, i24 reported on Thursday, citing Western officials.

Iran said on Friday it will respond to the latest resolution by the UN nuclear watchdog’s board, calling it a political misuse of the agency and saying the vote has invalidated an inspection accord reached in Cairo.

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said on Thursday that the United States has persistently pushed for negotiations with Iran on terms amounting to surrender, both before and after the 12-day June war.

The US Department of the Treasury on Thursday imposed broad new sanctions on what it described as a network helping Iran evade restrictions on its petroleum exports and fund illicit activities.

An Iranian–American woman is being held in incommunicado detention in Tehran after her arrest upon arrival at Imam Khomeini Airport in September, according to Norway-based rights group Hengaw.

Tehran’s messaging this week suggests it may be open to a limited agreement with Washington, but its preconditions leave little room for a deal that US President Donald Trump deemed 'probable' this week.

Iran’s foreign minister said an accord it reached with the UN nuclear watchdog is now invalid after the agency’s 35-member Board of Governors adopted a Western-backed resolution demanding greater transparency from Tehran.

The UN General Assembly’s Third Committee adopted a resolution on Wednesday condemning Iran’s human rights record, in a move praised by the UN rapporteur on rights on the country.

Iran has asked Saudi Arabia to help persuade the United States to restart nuclear talks, Reuters reported citing two regional sources with knowledge of the matter.

Iran’s capital must be moved because the country “no longer has a choice,” President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Thursday in remarks carried by state media, warning that severe ecological strain has made Tehran impossible to sustain.

The UN nuclear watchdog’s 35-member Board of Governors on Thursday approved a resolution calling on Iran to promptly clarify the status of its enriched uranium and the condition of atomic sites hit in June by US and Israeli strikes.

Hamas and Hezbollah are quietly rebuilding their military capabilities amid a tense ceasefire with Israel, the Jerusalem Post cited Israeli defense officials as saying on Thursday.

Tehran is once again tiptoeing around the issue of gasoline prices under the long shadow of November 2019 protests that became one of the bloodiest crackdowns in the Islamic Republic’s history.

More eyewitness students have reached out to Iran International with testimonies detailing a series of aggressive acts at a Tehran school on Tuesday, leaving three girls hospitalized.