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CENTCOM said it had carried out a new round of defensive strikes in southern Iran, while an Iranian drone attack on the Kuwait airport killed one person.

Iran has once again acknowledged and appreciated Pakistan’s positive role during the recent conflict in the region.

Johannes Natland, 19, is accused of travelling to Britain to carry out a paid killing after being recruited through Sweden's Foxtrot Network, which prosecutors say is used by Iran. He was arrested in 2024 with two firearms and ammunition as part of an alleged contract-killing plot

Bitcoin saw its largest daily drop since early February on Tuesday as the cryptocurrency shed more than $4,500 in a single day. Bitcoin prices have dropped 7% on the day, breaking key support to a nine-week low after the US and Iran launched fresh strikes as talks over a possible ceasefire have stalled.  Bitcoin (BTC) fell to $65,385 on Coinbase in early trading on Wednesday, its lowest level since late March, according to TradingView. The slump follows the largest daily fall since Feb. 5 as BTC shed more than $4,500 on Tuesday.  Read more

The sanctions come four days after Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the US had seized nearly $1 billion in crypto from Iranian crypto exchanges and wallets since late February. The US Treasury has sanctioned four Iranian crypto exchanges, including the country’s largest, Nobitex, marking the latest effort in its campaign called “Economic Fury” that aims to cut Iran off from the financial system. The Treasury said on Tuesday that it added crypto exchanges Wallex, Bitpin and Ramzinex to the Office of Foreign Assets Control’s sanction list, prohibiting US businesses and persons from providing services to those platforms. “While Iran’s economy is in free fall, the regime has chosen to co-opt digital asset technologies for its own corrupt agenda, including evading sanctions and transferring wealth out of the country,” said Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent. Read more

De VS hebben in de nacht van dinsdag op woensdag opnieuw aanvallen uitgevoerd op Iran, in reactie op Iraanse raketaanvallen op Koeweit en Bahrein. Dat meldt het Amerikaanse leger. Koeweit had eerder laten weten voor de derde keer in een week te worden aangevallen met drones en raketten. Dat bericht volgde enkele uren nadat het Amerikaanse leger bekendmaakte een ongeladen olietanker te hebben gebombardeerd die via de Perzische Golf een Iraanse haven probeerde te bereiken. Volg alle ontwikkelingen in het Midden-Oosten in ons liveblog.

WASHINGTON: US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Tuesday told lawmakers that Iran had agreed to begin limited negotiations over its nuclear programme, marking what he described as a tentative but meaningful shift in Tehran’s posture as the United States-led conflict continues to destabilise the Middle East. Rubio said that Iran had also indicated interest in discussing parts of its nuclear programme that it had previously refused to engage on, but he cautioned that this did not ensure the negotiations would produce a deal to end the US-Israeli conflict with Iran. “They have agreed to negotiate aspects of their nuclear programme that just a month ago, just a year ago, they were refusing to even mention,” Rubio said. But he added that it’s “not a guarantee that ultimately it will lead to a deal that’s acceptable” by Congress. He said these negotiations had been made difficult by the instability of Iran’s leadership. He also stated that the Trump administration had not proposed sanctions relief in exchange for I...

Een deal tussen de VS en Iran is dichtbij. Of toch niet? Misschien wel, nee, zeker zelfs. Tenzij de gesprekken zijn gestopt. Ach, ze waren toch saai. Kortom: er is geen peil te trekken op de chaotische diplomatie rond de Iranoorlog.

Iran has not yet responded to a final memorandum of understanding proposal, and was taking a 'stern' approach given a history of U.S. non-compliance, a source told Mehr News Agency, as Tehran is seeking an end to Israel's incursion in Lebanon, officials said

From a 2011 peak near $1,900, gold spent years carving a deep base, retested resistance around $2,100 in 2020, consolidated again through 2022, then broke decisively higher to reach $3,300 by early 2025 and a record above $5,400 in January 2026. According to analyst and Real Vision affiliate James Easton, Bitcoin's weekly chart is now […] The post Bitcoin’s $300K gold pattern now depends on whether Iran’s oil shock rewrites the Fed path appeared first on CryptoSlate.

De Amerikaanse president Donald Trump meldt na telefoongesprekken met Hezbollah en de Israëlische premier Benjamin Netanyahu dat alle aanvallen tussen Israël en Hezbollah stoppen. Ook zouden de gesprekken met Iran zijn hervat.

Iran kan voorlopig gewoon doorgaan met het afvuren van raketten. De massale bombardementen van Israël en Amerika hebben alleen de toegang tot de ondergrondse opslagplaatsen versperd, zo blijkt nu. Er waren alleen wat bulldozers en grote trucks nodig om de weg weer vrij te krijgen.

Berichten van Trump volgen op een chaotische dag waarop het Iraanse persbureau Tasnim bekendmaakte dat Iran de onderhandelingen met de Verenigde Staten stillegde.

Alireza Jahanbakhsh gaat met Iran naar het WK voetbal in de Verenigde Staten, Canada en Mexico. De voormalige speler van onder meer Feyenoord en sc Heerenveen maakt deel uit van de WK-selectie van bondscoach Amir Ghalenoei.

The MSCI All-World index was up 0.13% to trade around record highs, as markets from Tokyo to Seoul traded at or near all-time peaks, underpinned by avid demand for anything AI-related.

Bitcoin price headed below $72,000 on Iran woes as US President Donald Trump told observers to "sit back and relax" with a ceasefire still unresolved. Bitcoin (BTC) heads into June with new local lows as the US-Iran war drives crypto market nerves. News of strikes on Iranian targets keep the Middle East conflict firmly on the radar as a source of crypto market volatility this week. Exchanges of fire meant that BTC price action quickly came under pressure following the monthly close, dropping below $73,000. Read more

The European Union is considering a temporary "freeze" of the price cap on Russian oil because of the war involving Iran.

Images analyzed by CNN show Iran used bulldozers, dump trucks and other basic construction equipment to quickly uncover the underground facilites buried by U.S. and Israeli strikes

reasury Secretary Scott Bessent said at the Reagan National Economic Forum that the US had seized roughly $1 billion in Iranian crypto assets, turning the Iran crypto seizure into an early test of Trump’s reserve framework Bessent added the authorities “just outright grabbed the wallets,” with CBS reporting he also described the assets as money […] The post The US says it grabbed Iran’s crypto in a $1B seizure – will it end up in Trump’s Bitcoin Reserve? appeared first on CryptoSlate.

United States President Donald Trump said he had secured guarantees from Iran that it would not develop nuclear weapons, as reports emerged he had sent a tougher peace proposal back to Tehran. Any tweaks to the proposal could prolong even further an agreement to formally end the Middle East war and open the Strait of Hormuz maritime route after weeks of efforts to secure a deal despite fractious rhetoric and the occasional flare-up of armed conflict. The New York Times and Axios media outlets reported on Saturday that Trump had sent back a new framework to be considered by Iran with “tougher” terms, though it was not immediately clear what that entailed. Trump has said his priorities for any deal include stopping Iran from any nuclear weapon development and re-opening the blockaded Strait of Hormuz. “The one guarantee that I have to have is that there will be no nuclear weapons. They’ve agreed to that, and it was very interesting,” he told his daughter-in-law Lara Trump in an interview broadcast on her Fox Ne...