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Iran awaits second plane of nationals deported from US

Fifty-five Iranian nationals will be returned to Iran, the second group of what US officials say is a total of 400 Iranians to be deported.

Air Marshals and Security Officials stand in the cabin of a plane on June 26, 2025 in flight to Joint Base Andrews, Maryland. Due to mechanical issues, U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and her staff were forced to change planes and use another plane recently used by Immigration and Custo
A mural of Mahsa Amini painted by Chilean-American artist Rodrigo Pradel in collaboration with Yasi Farazad, his Iranian-American friend, is pictured in Washington, United States in this undated handout picture.

Iran's judiciary sues US for $22b. damages caused by 2022 protests following Mahsa Amini's death

 IRANIAN FOREIGN MINISTER Abbas Araghchi looks on during a news conference in Istanbul last month, amid Iran’s war with Israel. The writer asks: What should be Jerusalem’s next protective steps?

Iranian FM Araghchi says 'Cairo Agreement dead' after IAEA resolution over Iran nuclear program

Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro (R) meets with Speaker of the Parliament of Iran Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf (L), at Miraflores Palace, in Caracas, Venezuela June 2, 2025.

Iran slams US military strikes against alleged drug boats amid rising US Venezuela tensions


Iran's Pezeshkian says Tehran seeks peace, but will not bow to coercion

Iranian President Pezeshkian will not hold talks if not allowed nuclear science or missiles for defense.

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian visits the Iranian Atomic Energy Organisation in Tehran, Iran, November 2, 2025.

Iran arrests Iranian-American Jew for visiting Israel - NYT

Hekmati, a 70-year-old resident of Long Island, New York, has been held in Evin Prison since July.

Kemran Hekmati, pictured in a family photo. Iran charged the 70-year-old Jewish Iranian-American for traveling to Israel.

US to Iranian officials attending UN: No shopping sprees in New York

A spokesperson for the US State Department said in a statement that the move aims to "maximize pressure" on Iran’s clerical establishment.

Iran’s Ambassador to the United Nations, Amir-Saeid Iravani, addresses members of the U.N. Security Council after a vote on a resolution that would permanently lift U.N. sanctions on Iran, at U.N. headquarters in New York City, U.S., September 19, 2025

Path for Iran-US negotiations not closed, Iran's Supreme Security Council says

The secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council, Ali Larijani, said that "by raising unrealisable issues such as missile restrictions, they [US] set a path that negates any talks."

 L to R: Iran Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and US President Donald Trump against backdrop of respective flags and missile strikes.

Iran's moment for 'effective' nuclear talks with US not yet reached, FM says

Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said negotiations with the US must be held "at their own time" and explained that there still isn't "negotiation maturity."

 Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi speaks during a joint press conference with his Egyptian counterpart after their meeting in Cairo on June 2, 2025.

Two American Jews arrested in Iran on suspicion of espionage, one remains imprisoned - KAN

Both Iranian-American Jews were in the country to visit family.

 An Iranian man holds a newspaper with a cover photo of Iran and US flags on a street in Tehran, Iran, April 19, 2025

Iran claims it sent helicopter to warn US destroyer in attempt to project force

Iranian state media outlet Tasnim News said that on July 23, at around ten in the morning, the USS Fitzgerald intended to approach the waters around Iran.

A US Navy guided-missile destroyer USS Jason Dunham (DDG 109) and Egyptian Navy frigate ENS Alexandria (F911) conduct manoeuvring-operation exercises during a 60 nations International Maritime Exercise.

Tehran won't give up nuclear program despite 'serious damage,' Iran's FM says

"We cannot give up enrichment because it is an achievement of our own scientists. And now, more than that, it is a question of national pride," Araghchi told Fox.

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi meets with Lebanese Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri (unseen), in Beirut, Lebanon, June 3, 2025.

Eytan Gittler: The lone soldier saving Israeli civilians under Iran missile fire

For two hours, his team walked the stairs up to the top of the 42-story building and then to the bottom, knocking on doors and helping residents leave their apartments.

 ON THE scene of a building struck by an Iranian ballistic missile.

Justice Dept. sanctions Iranian US resident for smuggling electronics, including for Iran railways

Bahram Mohammad Ostovari, a 66-year-old resident of Santa Monica, California, and Tehran, Iran, was arrested on Thursday for allegedly bypassing Iranian sanctions.

 An Iranian train at a railroad station in Khaf, December 10, 2020; illustrative.

Iran's new posture on nuclear talks is not a breakthrough - it is a stalling tactic - opinion

Tehran, long adept at delaying diplomacy while advancing its nuclear program, had assumed 2025 would play out like previous rounds. But this time, the Islamic Republic misjudged.

 Middle East Envoy Steve Witkoff attends a meeting in the White House Situation Room on attacking Iranian nuclear facilities, last month. Now there is anticipation over new nuclear talks.