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Police in Iran has once again resorted to arrests and intimidation to control the fall of the national currency, the rial in the local exchange market.

Three European powers warned Tuesday evening that chances of reviving the 2015 Iran deal were quickly diminishing due to Tehran’s “continued nuclear escalation.”

A top Iranian military official has dismissed a proposed bill at US Congress to strengthen measures against Tehran’s growing drone program as ineffective.

Iran's hardline President Ebrahim Raisi has allocated 12 times more money to the country's space program in his new budget amid nuclear talks with world powers.

A lawmaker and cleric has apologized for saying that people who consider musical instruments and sunglasses priorities should leave Iran and reside elsewhere.

Saudi Arabia has told a Gulf Arab summit on Tuesday Iran’s nuclear and missile programs should be handled "seriously and effectively" amid nuclear talks with Tehran.

Rafael Grossi, the UN nuclear agency’s chief, has told Associated Press Tuesday that his agency’s picture of the Iranian atomic program was becoming “blurred.”

The public, formal part of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard budget will increase 2.4 times next year and Iran’s armed forces will receive crude oil to sell abroad.

Iran reacting to the visit of Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett to the United Arab Emirates on Monday warned against any Israeli presence in the region.

The deputy commander of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard has said that Iranian universities and academics have been useful in advancing military development projects.

Russian envoy to the Vienna nuclear talks has revealed that Iran's centrifuges, devices used to enrich uranium, are an "acute issue" in the negotiations.

Iran's nuclear chief said Tuesday demands by the UN nuclear watchdog IAEA for access to a workshop making centrifuges are beyond NPT and unacceptable to Tehran.

Persian Gulf Arab leaders gather on Tuesday for an annual summit expected to stress cohesion after a deep rift, at a time of regional concerns over Iran.

A leading economic daily in Tehran says the main implication of Iran's new budget bill for ordinary people would be higher inflation in the months to come.

Western diplomats say they still have not had real nuclear negotiations with Iran, and unless there is swift progress that deal will soon be "an empty shell.”

Leaders of Israel and the United Arab Emirates discussed Iran in their first ever meeting on Monday but both sides gave little detail about their discussion.

On the third day of their strike, tens of thousands of teachers across Iran staged rallies Monday demanding higher pay and freedom for colleagues in prisons.

The chief of staff of Iran’s armed forces said Monday that Tehran had meetings with Saudi And Emirati sides and to an extent “misunderstandings” were resolved.

Syrian government and opposition media report a US airdrop in eastern Syria designed as a raid against arms dealers and people suspected of working with the Islamic State group.

Lawdan Bazargan whose brother was executed as a political prisoner in Iran in 1988, argues that a diplomat who defended prison killings should not teach in a US college.

With signs that the Iran nuclear talks in Vienna are a bit more serious than two weeks ago, pundits are queuing to proclaim a softening in Tehran’s stance.