Infections with COVID-19 have claimed 187 more lives in Iran over the past day, amid predictions by health officials that the Omicron wave of the coronavirus will reach the peak in two weeks.
An Iranian lawmaker says Iran stands ready for “constructive” interactions with the parties to the Vienna negotiations, urging the US and its European allies to recognize Iran as a nuclear state and set aside the abortive policy of sanctions in dealing with the country.
A former Iranian lawmaker says Tehran is seeking a “good agreement” during the Vienna talks that would serve the interests of its nation, and that it will never accept a “win-lose agreement” sought by the Israeli regime.
Oil prices extended losses on Friday, heading for a weekly fall, as the prospect of extra supply from Iran returning to the market outweighed fears of a possible supply disruption arising from a Russian invasion of Ukraine.
The United States has announced that "substantial progress" during negotiations in Vienna to salvage the 2015 nuclear deal has been made, deeming an agreement possible within days if Iran "shows seriousness" on the matter. Iran says the ball is in the court of the United States, and that Washington must remove the anti-Tehran sanctions.
A member of the Iranian Parliament’s National Security and Foreign Policy Commission has criticized the US for sticking to sanctions on the Islamic Republic while the Vienna talks continue.
Russia's lead negotiator in the Austrian capital Vienna says the United States must take the first step to allow a final deal to emerge with Iran to revive the 2015 nuclear agreement.
The Iranian Foreign Ministry has strongly criticized a Reuters report about the outcome of the Vienna talks aimed at reviving the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, calling it ‘unsourced spin.’
Russia has expelled US deputy ambassador to Moscow, according to the American mission. Washington has emphasized that it would respond to American diplomat’s expulsion.
An informed source in Iran’s Oil Ministry says Iraq and Qatar are going to discuss bilateral cooperation in gas swap, adoption of a common position in world markets and formation of a joint South Pars study working group.
Iran's Interior Ministry has announced that Covid-19 PCR tests performed in Iraq lack validity so Iranian pilgrims returning to the country should have received two doses of coronavirus vaccine.
The Iranian Central Bank has confirmed reports that an Iranian delegation has recently visited South Korea for talks over Iran’s frozen assets in the southeast Asian country.
Japan's oil giant Eneos Holdings Inc says it will consider resuming oil imports from Iran if an agreement to revive the 2015 nuclear deal is reached. The company has yet to start necessary preparations to that end.
The units of the tank army of Russia’s Western Military District (WMD) are returning to the site of permanent deployment after conducting planned exercises, according to the Ministry of Defense.
The Australian government announced it plans to list the whole of the Palestinian movement Hamas to its list of outlawed “terrorist” organisations. Hamas has condemned it as a hostile action.
Iranian daily Jomhouri Eslami - Islamic Republic – has strongly criticized the government’s handling of the economic situation in the country, saying the pressure people are facing to provide for their livelihoods “has broken their backs”.
Nearly 200 House Republicans have warned President Joe Biden any nuclear deal with Iran without Congress' approval "will meet the same fate" as the 2015 agreement by President Barack Obama later abandoned by President Donald Trump.
Leader of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei says the Islamic republic is not after nuclear weapons. He says Iran seeks “peaceful benefits of nuclear energy”, but enemies do not want the Iranian nation to achieve this “great scientific progress”.
Negotiations in Vienna to revive the Iran nuclear deal are nearing their conclusion, a spokesman for the US State Department has suggested, raising hopes the landmark agreement may soon be restored.
