Iran's anger over a new U.S. sanctions measure may have been behind its move to interrupt talks with world powers over how to implement last month's breakthrough nuclear agreement, two diplomats said on Friday. [caption id="attachment_34179" align="alignright" width="331"]...

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry appealed to skeptical U.S. lawmakers on Tuesday not to impose new sanctions on Tehran while the United States seeks to negotiate a comprehensive agreement with Iran to curb its nuclear program. [caption id="attachment_34108" align="alignright" width="408"]...

[caption id="attachment_33875" align="alignright" width="384"] Mortar Shells[/caption] Iranian border guards violated the Pakistani border once again firing four mortar shells at Mashkail town in Washuk district during the early hours of Wednesday. No loss of life was reported....

Bijan Zanganeh returns this week to the same Vienna hotel suite he last occupied eight years ago as Iranian oil minister, ready to prepare OPEC for what Tehran hopes will mark its return as the cartel's second biggest producer. [caption id="attachment_33781" align="alignright" width="367"]...

World powers aim to clinch a preliminary deal to curb Iran's nuclear programme in politically charged talks resuming in Geneva on Wednesday to end a long standoff and head off the risk of a wider Middle East war. [caption id="attachment_33514" align="alignright" width="360"]...

World powers will seek to hammer out a breakthrough deal with Iran to start resolving a decade-old dispute over its nuclear program in two-day talks that begin on Thursday, although both sides say an agreement is far from certain. [caption id="attachment_33299" align="alignright" width="360"]...

The United States is not looking to ease sanctions on Iran "at the front end" of negotiations over the Iranian nuclear program, a senior White House official said on Thursday. [caption id="attachment_33015" align="alignnone" width="342"] Barack Obama[/caption]

Iran's new government began its first talks on its nuclear program with the United States and five other world powers on Thursday, with the Iranian foreign minister taking a seat next to U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry in a rare high-level contact between the two long-estranged nations. [caption ...

US President Barack Obama on Tuesday cautiously embraced overtures from Iran's new president as the basis for a possible nuclear deal, but a failed effort to arrange a simple handshake between the two leaders underscored entrenched distrust that will be hard to overcome. [caption id="attachment_32417" align="alignright" width="315"]...

The U.S. Congress could soon pass a bill to further squeeze Iran's oil exports - and its nuclear program - but new sanctions may fail to cut the country's crude sales much more than existing ones already have. [caption id="attachment_32258" align="alignright" width="370"]...