DUBAI – Iran’s intelligence minister has said Tehran and Washington could hold talks only if the United States ended its sanctions and Iran’s top authority, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, gave his approval, state... Read more »

WASHINGTON – U.S. President Donald Trump said Monday he thinks Iran is “playing with fire” after the country announced it had exceeded the limit on its stockpile of low-enriched uranium that was... Read more »

WASHINGTON — Britain’s Middle East minister travels to Tehran Sunday for talks with Iranian officials.  Britain’s Foreign Office said Andrew Murrison will call for “urgent de-escalation in the region.”  Murrison will also... Read more »

WASHINGTON – The U.S. special envoy says President Donald Trump’s Iran policy is ultimately aimed at bringing Tehran to the negotiating table. Brian Hook briefed lawmakers at a House panel Wednesday amid... Read more »

VOA – This article originated in VOA’s Persian Service. Iran says its economy fell into a worse recession last year than international organizations expected, as the United States began re-imposing tough sanctions... Read more »

VOA – Iranian President Hassan Rouhani says his country will continue to curtail its compliance with a nuclear deal unless other global powers that entered the agreement show “positive signals.” Iran began... Read more »

VOA – The U.S. Navy has released video it says shows an Iranian patrol boat removing an unexploded limpet mine from the hull of one of two tankers carrying petroleum products that... Read more »

VOA – Under a starry sky, U.S. Navy fighter jets catapulted off the aircraft carrier’s deck and flew north over the darkened waters of the northern Arabian Sea, a unmistaken signal to... Read more »