Iran is ready to negotiate with the U.S. and is optimistic that a deal can be reached if the goal is to get to a place where the country has no nuclear weapons.

The blast happened a day before a planned naval drill by Iran in the Strait of Hormuz, the narrow mouth of the Persian Gulf through which a fifth of all oil traded passes.

By Parisa Hafezi, Humeyra Pamuk and Idrees Ali DUBAI/WASHINGTON, Feb 3 (Reuters) - Iran is demanding that talks with the U.S. this week be held in Oman not Turkey, and that the scope be narrowed to two-way negotiations on nuclear issues only,

Iran says it has had summoned all of the European Union ambassadors in the Islamic Republic to protest the bloc’s listing of the paramilitary Revolutionary Guard as a terror group.

Tensions have continued to rise between the two nations after the Iranian regime’s brutal crackdown on nationwide protests left thousands dead.

By Emily Rose JERUSALEM, Feb 3 (Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told U.S. Special Envoy Steve Witkoff on Tuesday amid efforts to revive diplomacy over Iran's nuclear programme that Tehran was unlikely to honor any potential agreement.

An explosion has ripped through an apartment building in the Iranian port city of Bandar Abbas, killing a 4-year-old girl.

After President Trump sent an armada to the Middle East, Iran's Supreme Leader warned a U.S. attack would spark regional war. The International Crisis Group's Ali Vaez talks about what's next.

Five leading Iranian writers reckon with a shattered uprising, a despotic regime and a country edging toward its final season.