Iran will promote its citizens’ living standards through scientific and technical breakthrough in the nuclear technology in the face of the decades-long US-led sanctions, a top Iranian official says.

The Iranian narrative of the war with Iraq seeks to highlight the role of the US, Germany and Britain in supporting the now-defunct Baathist regime of Saddam Hussein during its war with Iran, but tends to overlook the former Soviet Union’s mega-scale aid to the former Iraqi dictator, an Iranian daily wrote.

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi has stated Tehran’s uranium enrichment to the purity level of 60% was in response to the lack of commitments by the European parties to the 2015 nuclear agreement, officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).

The Iranian Intelligence Ministry announced that it has foiled a plot to carry out a string of terrorist bombing attacks in the capital Tehran, capturing dozens of elements linked with the Daesh terrorist group.

Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian stressed that Tehran is ready to return to full compliance with its commitments to the 2015 nuclear agreement if the other parties to the accord are also ready to do so.

The spokesperson for Iran's Civil Aviation Organization confirmed that flights between Iran and the Republic of Azerbaijan as well as Armenia have recommenced.

Iran’s Persian Gulf Star Oil Company (PGSOC) in the southern Iranian port city of Bandar Abbas has increased its refining capacity from 36 thousand barrels at inauguration over six years ago to 455 thousand barrels, the company’s director said on Wednesday.

The newly-appointed Saudi ambassador to Iran says the kingdom eyes expansion of petrochemical cooperation with Iran, according to the Iranian Oil Ministry.