Washington: China and Iran are becoming increasingly brazen in their attempts to silence dissidents on American soil and influence U.S. policy, the FBI warned on Thursday. In a news briefing with reporters about transnational repression, FBI counterintelligence officials urged victims to come forward, saying the bureau
Beijing/Riyadh: The foreign ministers of Iran and Saudi Arabia met in Beijing for the first formal gathering of their top diplomats in more than seven years, after China brokered a deal to restore relations between the top regional powers. After years of hostility that fuelled conflicts
The Hague: In a partial victory for Iran, judges at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on Friday ruled Washington had illegally allowed courts to freeze assets of Iranian companies and ordered the United States to pay compensation, the amount of which will be determined
Sanaa: Diplomatic efforts to broker a peace in Yemen accelerated after Iran and Saudi Arabia agreed to re-establish diplomatic relations last week, the UN special envoy Hans Grundberg has reported to the Security Council. “Intense diplomatic efforts are ongoing at different levels to bring the conflict
Riyadh: Iran and Saudi Arabia agreed to re-establish relations after years of hostility that had threatened stability and security in the Gulf and helped fuel conflicts in the Middle East from Yemen to Syria. The deal, brokered by China, was announced after four days of previously
New Delhi: Iran's Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian has reportedly cancelled his scheduled visit to India next month to attend the Raisina dialogues. Reports say that he cancelled his visit over a video that showed Iranian women cutting their hair in anti-government protests, Indian Express reported. The
Dubai: Iranian Nobel Peace Prize laureate Shirin Ebadi said the death in custody of a young Iranian Kurdish woman last year has sparked an irreversible "revolutionary process" that would eventually lead to the collapse of the republic. Iran's clerical rulers have faced widespread unrest since Mahsa
Vienna: The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) criticised Iran for making an undeclared change to the interconnection between the two clusters of advanced machines enriching uranium to up to 60 per cent purity, close to weapons grade, at its Fordow plant. The International Atomic Energy Agency
Dubai: Iran and Russia have connected their interbank communication and transfer systems to help boost trade and financial transactions, a senior Iranian official said, as both Tehran and Moscow are chafing under Western sanctions. Since the 2018 reimposition of US sanctions on Iran after Washington ditched
Brussels: The head of the UN's nuclear watchdog said on Wednesday he plans to go to Iran next month for "much needed" talks on getting it to resume cooperation over its nuclear activities. "I might be back in Tehran