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Iran's foreign ministry spokesman said Monday that talks with Saudi Arabia are now on a "more serious path", including discussion on resolving Yemen's conflict.

Iran is ready to swap oil with investments in the energy sector, oil minister Javad Owji told parliament on Sunday, as US sanctions prevent large-scale exports.

Former Azerbaijani President Haydar Aliev had suggested to Iran’s president Akbar Hashemi-Rafsanjani in 1993 to join his country to Iran, Rafsanjani’s son says.

The United Arab Emirates said on Sunday that the Gulf state and Syria had agreed on future plans to enhance economic cooperation and explore new sectors.

Abdul Qadeer Khan, lionized at home as the father of Pakistan’s atomic bomb despite admitting he was at the center of a nuclear proliferation ring, died on Sunday at age 85.

Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian said Sunday that relations with Asian countries should not mean ignoring relations with the West altogether.

Fars news agency in Tehran affiliated with the Revolutionary Guard has harshly accused Iraqi Kurdish leaders of cooperating with foreign countries against Iran.

Three activists jailed since August 14 in Iran have said that they have refused to sign a pledge not to sue the country’s Supreme Leader in order to be freed.

The coming weeks are decisive for the future of the nuclear deal with Iran, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Sunday.

Lebanon's two main power plants were forced to shut down after running out of fuel plunging the country into darkness on Saturday, despite Iran sending fuel.

The head of Iran’s atomic energy agency has said that stockpiles of 20-percent enriched uranium have reached 120kg, a third more than previous estimates.

A report by Iran’s Central Bank (CBI) issued in August and made available in October shows an extraordinary growth in liquidity, which fuels high inflation.

A main concern of Iran in talks to rescue the 2015 nuclear deal would be around ways to verify the lifting of US sanctions, Iran's Foreign Minister has said.

While the Iranian foreign minister has reiterated that his country will soon return to Vienna nuclear talks, it is not clear if Tehran has new preconditions.

A conservative newspaper in Iran has suggested the Taliban is misusing Tehran’s aid, highlighting varying views in Iran on Afghanistan’s new rulers.

Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi has accused the United States of being behind a suicide attack in Afghanistan on Friday that killed 46 people in a mosque.

Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, foreign minister of the Islamic Republic of Iran visited Syria on Saturday and met with president Bashar al-Assad in Damascus.

The Islamic Republic of Iran's first President, Abolhassan Banisadr who was ousted by clerics passed away at age 88 in a Paris hospital after 40 years in exile.

The US Department of the Treasury removed a large Iranian industrial group from its list of sanctions on Friday, as nuclear talks with Iran remain suspended.

The first president of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Abolhassan Banisadr who was elected after the monarchy has died in exile, where he lived since 1981.

Ten people were injured in two explosives-laden drone attacks at King Abdullah airport in the southern Saudi city of Jizan late on Friday and early on Saturday.