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A senior Emirati official said on Tuesday the United Arab Emirates (UAE) would soon send a delegation to Iran as part of efforts to improve ties with rival Tehran.

Iraqi Populist Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr's movement secured the biggest number of seats in parliament, winning 73 seats, according to final results announced by the electoral commission on Tuesday.

Iran’s Foreign Ministry has issued a statement regarding measures the Islamic Republic has taken to appease the families of people who died in the Ukrainian plane crash over Tehran in early 2020.

Lebanese President Michel Aoun says Beirut wants the “best relations” with Saudi Arabia and other regional countries amid an ongoing diplomatic rift with the Persian Gulf Cooperation Council (PGCC).

At least six people, including a foreign national, died and dozens more were injured on Monday after heavy storms hit Turkey's largest city of Istanbul and its surrounding regions.

The US continuous support for Israel, including its condoning of Tel Aviv’s dangerous nuclear weapons program, has made the realization of the idea of establishing a nuclear-free zone in the Middle East impossible, an Iranian diplomat says.

A bomb blast on a main road in Police District six of the Afghan capital Kabul wounded five people including the Taliban fighters but the Taliban have not commented on the casualties.

China says dialogue and negotiations are the only right way to solve the Iran nuclear issue, and that the United States should lift all related illegal sanctions against Iran and third parties, including China.

US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin has ordered a review into US military bombings in Syria in March 2019 that reportedly killed dozens of civilians during the ‘battle for the final stronghold of ISIL (ISIS).’

Russia says the countries attending the new round of talks in Vienna, decided to continue the work on the basis of the progress achieved during the previous rounds. Iran says those achievements are draft and subject to negotiations.

Iran has lost hundreds of millions in annual revenues from exports of hand-woven carpets as a major businessman blame the huge loss on current exchange regulations and US sanctions.

Iran’s foreign minister says the new administration of the Islamic Republic seeks to continue cooperation with friends and neighbors including the United Arab Emirates.

Permanent Representative of Russia to the International Organizations in Vienna Mikhail Ulyanov on Monday said that he believes a feasible and practical agreement can be reached in the current round of nuclear talks between Iran and the P4+1 (Russia, China, France, and Britain plus Germany).

Roadblocks were set up by demonstrators across much of cash-strapped Lebanon after the currency plummeted to a historic low.

The Taliban have had an underground network of intelligence operatives that helped them seize power from inside, parallel to their military victory, according to a report.

Moscow is cautiously optimistic ahead of Monday's nuclear negotiations in Austria’s Vienna, a Russian top diplomat says.

The US military has sent in more than one hundred vehicles from Iraqi territory in two columns moving towards the province of Hasaka, the SANA news agency reported, citing accounts of local sources from the al-Yaroubiya region.

The Palestinian resistance movement of Hamas announced Sunday that it will take legal action against the United Kingdom, which recently listed it as a “terrorist organization”.

Tel Aviv and London will "work night and day" in preventing Iran from becoming a nuclear power, the UK and Israeli foreign ministers wrote in a joint article. Tehran has repeatedly stressed it is not after developing nuclear weapons.

Leaders from a handful of Asian nations vowed to help Afghanistan during a summit on Sunday. They stressed the need for outside support as the new Taliban government grapples with poverty, food insecurity and an economic crisis.

Opportunities still exist for the parties to the 2015 Iran nuclear deal to come to an agreement in Vienna, Russia’s lead negotiator said a day before the resumption of the high-profile negotiations in the Austrian capital. Iran says it is ready for a good agreement provided that the other parties to the JCPOA return to their obligations under the deal.

The United States and its partners are likely to exert pressure on Iran if it uses talks scheduled to resume in Vienna on Monday as pretext to accelerate its nuclear programme, the U.S. special envoy to Iran says. The US withdrew from the JCPOA in 2018, re-imposing anti-Tehran sanctions. Iran in retaliation scaled back its commitments under the deal.

Experience shows that the west does not seek to implement a deal. Rather, it seeks to score public perception points by announcing one while stealthily “dis-implementing” the agreement in every possible way, Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister Ali Bagheri wrote in an op-ed in The Financial Times.

Iran's nuclear negotiating team, led by Deputy Foreign Minister Ali Bagheri, held bilateral and trilateral meetings in Austria’s Vienna on Sunday. It comes ahead of Monday's resumption of nuclear negotiations aimed at removing US’s anti-Iran sanctions.

Iranian women taekwondo players grabbed three medals at the first edition of the World Taekwondo Women's Open Championships in Saudi Arabia.