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Iran on Wednesday formally suspended its cooperation with the UN nuclear watchdog, a measure drawn up in the wake of unprecedented Israeli and US strikes on the Islamic republic’s nuclear sites. The war between Iran and Israel, which broke out on June 13 and lasted for 12 days, has intensified tensions between Tehran and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). On June 25, a day after a ceasefire took hold, Iranian lawmakers overwhelmingly voted in favour of the bill to suspend cooperation with the agency. State media said today that the legislation had cleared the final hurdle and was in effect. The text, published by Iranian media, states that the legislation aims to “ensure full support for the inherent rights of the Islamic Republic of Iran” under the nuclear non-proliferation treaty, and “especially uranium enrichment”. The issue of enrichment was at the core of disagreements between Washington and Tehran in nuclear negotiations that had been derailed by the war. Israel and some Western countries h...

Signed into effect by the Iranian President after parliamentary approval last week, the law aims to remove the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran from IAEA oversight 'until security of Iran's nuclear facilities is guaranteed, and move at a faster pace with the country's peaceful nuclear program'

A decade ago, Netanyahu aspired to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons for at least 10-15 years. Last month's attack failed to achieve that goal, so the only remaining option it an agreement that contains limitations and supervision in exchange for lifting sanctions

Emmanuel Macron and Vladimir Putin on Tuesday spoke by telephone for the first time in over two-and-a-half years, with the French president urging a ceasefire in Ukraine but the Russian leader hitting back that the West was to blame for the conflict. One week after a ceasefire ended Israel’s 12-day war with Iran, the two […]

As Qatar grows frustrated with the lack of progress on Israel-Hamas Gaza negotiations, it and Saudi Arabia are now seeking to advance a new nuclear agreement between the U.S. and Iran

Over 20 Israelis have been arrested over the past few months on suspicion of committing security offenses for Iran

Conflictul de 12 zile dintre Iran și Israel s-a încheiat cu un armistițiu, după ce sute de victime au fost înregistrate pe ambele părți. Iranul a raportat luni cel puţin 935 de morţi, printre care 132 de femei şi 38 de copii.

Diplomatic talks between Washington and Tehran cannot resume unless the US rules out further strikes on Iran, its deputy foreign minister told the BBC late Sunday. Majid Takht-Ravanchi told the British broadcaster that the US had signalled it wants to return to the negotiating table, a week after it struck three Iranian nuclear facilities. “We have not agreed to any date, we have not agreed to the modality,” said Takht-Ravanchi. “Right now we are seeking an answer to this question. Are we going to see a repetition of an act of aggression while we are engaging in dialogue?” The US needed to be “quite clear on this very important question”, he said. Meanwhile, US President Donald Trump said he was not offering Iran anything nor talking to it “since we totally obliterated” the country’s nuclear facilities. “I am not offering Iran anything, unlike Obama,” Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform. The two countries were in talks over Tehran’s nuclear programme when Israel hit Iranian nuclear sites and military inf...

More than 230,000 Afghans left Iran in June, most of them deported, as returns surge ahead of a Tehran-set deadline, the United Nations migration agency said on Monday. From June 1-28, 233,941 people returned from Iran to Afghanistan, International Organisation for Migration spokesman Avand Azeez Agha told AFP, with 131,912 returns recorded in the week of June 21-28 alone. “In total, from 1 January to 28 June 2025, 691,049 people have returned, 70 percent of whom were forcibly sent back,” he said. The number of returnees surged in recent weeks, as Afghans reported increased deportations and pressure to leave ahead of a July 6 deadline announced by Iran in May for Afghans without documents to leave the country. For several days last week, the number reached 30,000 per day, the IOM said. Figures have remained around 6-7,000 in recent days, Taliban border authorities and the UN said, with the numbers expected to increase ahead of the deadline.

Iran laat een hervatting van gesprekken met de VS over zijn nucleaire programma afhangen van de vraag of Washington afziet van verdere aanvallen. En op de Westelijke Jordaanoever zijn zo’n zestig mensen opgepakt die volgens Israël een Hamas-netwerk vormden dat aanslagen beraamde. Volg alle ontwikkelingen over het Midden-Oosten in ons liveblog.

Amidst his new popularity, the prime minister can lead a reconciliation campaign – even if some simply hate him to death. Healing internal divisions will prepare the nation for looming threats from an unchanged Iran

A missile fired in one of the barrages shot by Iran at Israel hit a residential and commercial building complex near the IDF's headquarters in Tel Aviv, representing just one of 480 buildings in Tel Aviv damaged by missile impacts during the 12-day war

In a report by The Times, intelligence documents allege that Israeli spies who have been active in Iran for years, and might still be, knew just how far along Iran's nuclear capabilities really were before the U.S. and Israeli attacks

ISLAMABAD - National Assembly Speaker Sardar Ayaz Sadiq on Thursday condemned Israel’s recent attack on Iran, called it a violation of international law and reiterated Pakistan’s support for the Iranian government and people during a meeting with Iranian Ambassador Reza Amiri Moghadam at Parliament House.

Donald Trump zou Iran ‘absoluut’ opnieuw bombarderen, als blijkt dat het land nog steeds uranium kan verrijken tot het geschikt is voor kernwapens. En China bevestigt dat een voorlopige handelsovereenkomst met de Verenigde Staten rond is. Volg alle ontwikkelingen in ons liveblog.

In the early 2010s, Iran believed that a war waged against it by Israel, which would pull in the United States, was an inevitability. At the time, American newspapers were warning that Israel was on the verge of bombing Iran, the IAEA was working hand in glove with the Americans to increase pressure on the Persians, and the country was being suffocated by sanctions that were only looking to get worse. The Iranians, according to political analyst Trita Parsi, made a strategic calculation at the time — that the war would come and it would devastate them, but it would also destroy the Americans. In this book, Losing an Enemy: Obama, Iran, and the Triumph of Diplomacy, Parsi notes that Iranian officials thought the Iraq war had already turned the US into a ‘limping giant’, that another war in the region would end its superpower status, and that it would no longer be able to dominate the Middle East. Sure, they ventured, Iran would be ruined by the war, but they placed their hope on the longevity of Persia as a ci...

Israeli military officials said the IDF's opening blow blocked Iran from firing 500-700 missiles at Israel, and the war left Iran with a quarter of the missiles it had before. They also believe it will take Iran years to rebuild its nuclear capabilities

Netanyahu might say October 7 was Israel's Pearl Harbor, and the historic victory over Iran and its proxies is like the end of World War II. But the campaign against Iran wasn't as calculated as it seemed – and is far from over

TEHRAN: Iran currently has no plan to meet with the United States, Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi said on Thursday in an interview on state TV, contradicting U.S. President Donald Trump’s statement that Washington planned to have talks with Tehran next week. The Iranian foreign minister said Tehran was assessing whether talks with the U.S. were […]

U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth scolded reporters for 'breathlessly' focusing on assessments that Tehran's program was only set back by a few months, and said he had no indication that Iran had moved uranium ahead of the attack