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October 7, 2025 2:22 PM

Two Years On: How the October 7 Attack Redefined West Asia

Today marks two years since Hamas carried out its unprecedented assault on Israel , a strike that killed around 1,200 people and triggered a conflict that has since reshaped the geopolitics of West Asia. The anniversary coincides with ongoing negotiations in Egypt over President Donald Trump’s ceasefire initiative, which offers a faint yet significant prospect of ending a war that has taken tens of thousands of lives. In the early hours of October 7, 2023, Hamas launched a highly coordinate...

September 24, 2025 9:42 PM

Iran’s president tells UN: Tehran will never seek to build nuclear bomb

Iran has no intention to build nuclear weapons, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian told the U.N. General Assembly on Wednesday, just days before international sanctions could be reimposed on his country over Tehran's nuclear ambitions. "I hereby declare once more before this assembly that Iran has never sought and will never seek to build a nuclear bomb. We do not seek nuclear weapons," Pezeshkian said. On August 28, Britain, France and Germany launched a 30-day process to reimpose U.N. sanct...

September 1, 2025 8:12 PM

China, Russia join Iran in rejecting European move to restore sanctions on Tehran

UN Security Council permanent members China and Russia backed Iran on Monday in rejecting a move by European countries to reimpose UN sanctions on Tehran loosened a decade ago under a nuclear agreement. A letter signed by the Chinese, Russian and Iranian foreign ministers said a move by Britain, France and Germany to automatically restore the sanctions under a so-called "snapback mechanism" was "legally and procedurally flawed". China and Russia were signatories to Iran's 2015 nuclear deal wit...

August 20, 2025 7:19 PM

Iran says moment for ‘effective’ nuclear talks with US not reached

Iran believes the moment for "effective" nuclear talks with the United States has not yet arrived, its top diplomat said on Wednesday, adding that Tehran would not completely cut off cooperation with the U.N. nuclear watchdog. Tehran suspended negotiations with Washington, which were aimed at curbing the Islamic Republic's nuclear ambitions, after the U.S. and Israel struck its nuclear sites in June. Since then, inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency have been unable to access ...

August 12, 2025 11:28 AM

UN nuclear watchdog official visits Tehran, talks with Iranian officials

A senior official from the UN nuclear watchdog held talks in Tehran, marking the first high-level visit since Iran suspended its cooperation with the agency in June, state media reported. Massimo Aparo, deputy director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), met with officials from Iran's Foreign Ministry and nuclear authorities on Monday, Xinhua news agency reported. The discussions centered on a "future framework for cooperation" following Tehran's decision to halt its coll...

July 28, 2025 4:04 PM

IAEA will visit Iran in next two weeks, Iranian foreign ministry says

The U.N. nuclear watchdog will make a visit to Iran within the next two weeks, Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei said on Monday, a few days after the watchdog's director said Tehran was ready to restart technical conversations. Baghaei added that a manual regarding the future of Iran's cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency will be presented, based on a recent parliamentary bill restricting such cooperation. The bill, which has now become law, stipulates tha...

July 10, 2025 5:04 PM

Iran urges UN nuclear watchdog to drop ‘double standards’

Iran's president said on Thursday the U.N. nuclear watchdog should drop its "double standards" if Tehran is to resume cooperation with it over the Islamic Republic's nuclear programme, Iranian state media reported. President Masoud Pezeshkian last week enacted a law suspending cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency, and the IAEA said it had pulled its last remaining inspectors out of Iran. Relations between Iran and the IAEA have worsened since the United States and Israel bom...

July 8, 2025 1:06 AM

Iran’s president says Tehran open to dialogue with US, accuses Israel of assassination attempt

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said he believes Iran can resolve its differences with the United States through dialogue, but trust would be an issue after U.S. and Israeli attacks on his country, according to an interview released on Monday. “I am of the belief that we could very much easily resolve our differences and conflicts with the United States through dialogue and talks,” Pezeshkian told conservative U.S. podcaster Tucker Carlson in an interview conducted on Saturday. The Ira...

July 2, 2025 2:38 PM

Iranian President Pezeshkian Signs into Law Suspending Cooperation with UN Nuclear Monitor

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has signed into law a bill suspending cooperation with the United Nations' nuclear monitor, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Iranian state media reported on Wednesday. This is one of the most drastic steps Iran has made in its standoff with international powers on its nuclear activities. State broadcaster of Iran reported that "Masoud Pezeshkian ratified the bill suspending cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency," Press TV, Mehr...

July 2, 2025 3:17 PM

Iran enacts law suspending cooperation with UN nuclear watchdog

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian put into effect on Wednesday a law passed by parliament last week to suspend cooperation with the U.N. nuclear watchdog, the IAEA, Iranian state media reported. Iran has threatened to halt cooperation with the IAEA, accusing it of siding with Western countries and providing a justification for Israel's air strikes, which began a day after the IAEA board voted to declare Iran in violation of obligations under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. The law stip...