Iran on alert as Tehran’s grand bazaar strikes enter second day

Shopkeepers and business owners in Tehran’s strategic Grand Bazaar joined protests on Sunday, urging others to strike as Iran’s currency lost value, with the rial falling to around 143,000 tomans per US dollar. The protests gained traction on Monday as crowds grew larger.

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Iran, US agree to hold negotiations in Baghdad: Sudani

Also during the interview, Sudani outlined two options for the armed factions in the country: Either join the country’s security structure or move into the political system.

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Iran seizes $5-million oil cargo from tanker, detains 16 non-nationals: Judiciary

Naval forces of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) "succeeded in seizing a foreign tanker carrying approximately 4 million liters of smuggled fuel in the blue waters of the Persian Gulf and near Qeshm Island."

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Iran dismisses professed US readiness for nuclear talks as ‘propaganda’

"Unlike Iran, which has always adhered to ‘meaningful’ diplomacy, the US has shown that it has neither good intentions nor seriousness," said Iranian foreign ministry spokesperson Esmail Baghei.

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US, Iran trade jabs over nuclear talks at UN

"The United States remains available for formal talks with Iran, but only if Tehran is prepared for direct and meaningful dialogue," Trump's deputy Middle East envoy Morgan Ortagus told the Security Council on Tuesday, but Iran's envoy to the UN insisted that Washington is not pursuing fair negotiations.

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Iraq announces ‘complete suspension’ of Iranian gas imports

“The Ministry of Electricity reports a loss of between 4,000 and 4,500 megawatts from the power grid,” it said in a statement carried by state media, after announcing a “complete suspension of Iranian gas supplies.”

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Iran warns missile capabilities off-limits amid concerns over possible Israeli attack

Baghaei said that labeling Tehran’s missile program as an existential threat is “blatant hypocrisy.”

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US Envoy to Iraq welcomes disarmament efforts, urges practical steps

Faiq Zidan, President of Iraq’s Supreme Judicial Council, on Saturday announced that the leaders of some armed factions have adhered to his call to cease military action and confine weapons to the state.

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Iran executes alleged Mossad spy

The judiciary also accused Keshavarz of being affiliated to the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (MEK), an Iranian dissident group, and claimed that his family had been loyalists of Iran’s overthrown Pahlavi royal dynasty.

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