US steps on lifting sanctions are "good but not enough", Iran said Saturday, following Washington's announcement it was waiving sanctions on Iran's civil nuclear program.

The US State Department announced in a statement that "Adnan Ayad, Jihad Adnan Ayad, Ali Adel Diab, and 10 companies are designated under Executive Order 13224.”

Baghdad has repatriated almost 4,000 of its citizens stuck on the Belarus borders with European Union members Poland, Lithuania and Latvia in recent weeks, Iraq's foreign minister said Sunday. Since November 18, the Iraqi government has organized "10 flights from Baghdad to Belarus" to repatriate its citizens, Fuad Hussein told...

Negotiations to restore the accord began last year but stopped in June as Iran elected ultraconservative President Ebrahim Raisi.

Iran has agreed to accept Ceylon tea in payment for a Sri Lankan oil debt valued at $251 million, Iranian media reported Thursday. "In recent negotiations, we reached a written deal to reimburse Iran's debt and interest on it in the form of a monthly shipment of tea produced in...

Syrian lawmakers have approved a draft budget for 2022 of $5.3 billion, down from $6.8 billion this year, as a spiraling economic crisis hits public finances and threatens subsidies on essential goods. A decade of war, Western sanctions and the coronavirus pandemic have devastated the Syrian economy, pushing most of...

International diplomats have been cloistered in a Vienna hotel discussing how to salvage a deal that was intended to prevent Iran from developing an atomic bomb.  Can the landmark 2015 agreement be saved or has time run out to revive the deal? What's at stake?  Talks to rescue the agreement...

Timed for International Human Rights Day and supported in part by Britain and Canada, the sanctions took aim at officials accused of abetting the crackdown on anti-coup protestors in Myanmar, the oppression of Muslim Uyghurs in China's Xinjiang region and political violence in Bangladesh under the guise of a war...

The landmark 2015 nuclear accord was initially agreed between Iran and Britain, China, France, Germany, Russia and the United States. But it began unravelling in 2018 when then US president Donald Trump pulled out and reimposed sanctions, prompting Iran to start exceeding limits on its nuclear program the following year.

Ebrahim Raisi, who took office in August, listed inflation, high prices, and tax evasion as among the top challenges facing his government. He was speaking during a television interview on Sunday, December 5, marking his first 100 days in power.

Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian has said that Tehran has gone to Vienna with serious determination and a clear and rational agenda. Iranian media reports said that Amirabdollahian made these remarks in a telephone conversation with his Japanese counterpart Yoshimasa Hayashi on Thursday evening. Regarding the ongoing nuclear talks in...

The government has shown its willingness and seriousness by sending a quality team known to all. If the other side shows the same willingness, we will be on the right track to reach an agreement, Iran's foreign ministry spokesman said.

Tourism Minister Walid Nassar said the move was aimed at preventing Beirut from being used as a departure point.

Rafael Grossi told a quarterly meeting of the agency's board that his talks in Tehran were "inconclusive", despite being "constructive". Grossi had sought to tackle constraints put on IAEA inspections earlier this year.

Polish border guards said there were attempted crossings by two groups on what is the eastern border of the European Union and NATO -- one involving 500 migrants, some of whom threw rocks and tear gas canisters. The border guards said they had detained 45 migrants.

Iraq said on Friday it was drawing up lists of those among the hundreds of Iraqis blocked on the border between Belarus and Poland who wish to be repatriated voluntarily. "We are ready to organize more than one trip to provide an urgent response to anyone wanting to come home...

Hundreds of desperate migrants are trapped in freezing temperatures on the Belarus-Poland border and the presence of troops from both sides has raised fears of a confrontation.

The sanctions boosted pressure on Iran ahead of the reopening of negotiations on the country's nuclear program. The sanctions came nine days after an attack on a US military base in Al-Tanf in Syria that involved drones, and two days after Iran said it would return to talks to revive...

Many banks and businesses, including pharmaceutical and medical companies around the world, over-comply with sanctions out of fear of potential penalties.

The US-based company will replace LinkedIn in China with an application dedicated to applying for jobs but without the networking features.

Enrique Mora's visit is a follow-up to consultations between the two sides on matters of shared interest, particularly Iran-EU relations, Afghanistan and the nuclear agreement, the Iranian foreign ministry said.

Tehran threatens Seoul with legal action unless it releases more than $7 billion in funds for oil shipments. Iran was South Korea's third-largest Middle Eastern trade partner before the US unilaterally withdrew from a 2015 nuclear deal and reimposed crippling sanctions.

Turkey still intends to buy a second batch of S-400 missile defense systems from Russia, its president has said.

Iran has been trying to enter the SCO for years, and was close last year, but Tajikisatn objected to it.

Foreign ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh said President Joe Biden was following the same "dead end" policies as Donald Trump. Khatibzadeh’s remarks came a day after the US Treasury announced financial sanctions against four Iranians accused of planning the kidnapping in the US of an American journalist of Iranian descent.

The US imposed its harshest sanctions on Iran three years ago as Washington, under President Donald Trump, unilaterally abandoned an international nuclear deal that Tehran had with it and five other global powers.

Iran is hard pressed to sell its oil to countries across the world due to the sanctions placed by the United States on it.

The pandemic has hit the worst in the Middle East and it grapples with a fifth and the strongest yet wave of infections amid crippling economic sanctions. The country recorded its highest single day death toll on Aug. 24, with 709 fatalities registered by the Health Ministry in 24 hours.

He delivered the remarks while chairing the first meeting of his cabinet which was approved by parliament on Wednesday

Iran unveiled the indigenously-designed surface-to-air Bavar 373 missile defense system in August 2019.

Turkey's initial purchase of S-400s from Russia soured relations with the US and its NATO allies

Iran is currently experiencing its worst wave of new Covid-19 infections, in what is the third wave of the pandemic in the country.

Ahmady explained that the Taliban would have access to only 0.1-0.2 percent of the country’s foreign reserves of $9 billion, especially given the sanctions the global community has placed on Afghanistan.

The US Department of Treasury said the sanctions are on ‘individuals and businesses’ involved in a network that smuggled oil out of Iran.

Baghdad last week announced a suspension of flights to Belarus to stem the flow and protect its citizens who have been victims of smuggling networks.

The extensions follow a visit to Washington by Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhemi to meet US President Joe Biden.

The US sanctions choked Iran, including by seeking to stop its oil exports, and the economy contracted by more than six percent in both 2018 and 2019

The move comes after weeks of uncertainty at the upper echelons of the Lebanese government, even as the country sinks deeper into an economic crisis.

Iran's president-elect has said his government will support talks that ‘guarantee national interests’ but will not allow negotiations for the sake of negotiations.

The United States is planning a crackdown on Iranian oil sales to China in violation of its sanctions

Iran has started exporting crude through its first terminal in the Gulf of Oman, bypassing the Strait of Hormuz to the north

Iran’s non-oil exports rose by 50% in the first quarter of the current Iranian year, its Minister of Industry, Mines and Trade Alireza Razm Hosseini said The latest Iranian new year started on March 21, and the numbers Razm Hosseini gave are from the first three months since then Iran’s...

The 2015 deal saw Iran accept curbs on its nuclear capabilities Trump unilaterally withdrew three years later Iran on Friday said world powers must take any final decisions to revive the 2015 nuclear deal, after France and the United States suggested that time was running out. "The opposing sides are...

Iran's 83 million people are suffering as jobs are scarce, prices are rising  Economic crisis brought on by crippling sanctions and worsened by the pandemic When Iranians vote for a new president next week, they will do so in the depths of an economic crisis brought on by crippling sanctions...