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US Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks to the press alongside Mexican Foreign Secretary Alicia Barcena (out of frame) in the Treaty Room at the US Department of State in Washington, DC, on August 10, 2023. (Photo by OLIVIER DOULIERY / AFP)

Tehran shifts Americans to house arrest

Tehran seeks billions in energy revenue frozen in South Korea in return.

Shaun Tandon

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The amphibious assault ship USS Bataan, pictured in New York harbour in May 2022

US military send 3,000 to Red Sea after Iran tensions

Washington is preparing to put armed military personnel aboard commercial tankers transiting the Gulf following tanker seizures by Iran.

AFP

TEHRAN TENSIONSThe Wall Street Journal

The USS Bataan, an amphibious assault ship. Concerns about Iran’s actions in the Persian Gulf region have prompted the U.S. to pour more military forces into the area. Picture: US Navy

US to put marines on tankers to deter Iran

Military personnel will help protect commercial vessels transiting the Persian Gulf.

Gordon Lubold and Vivian Salama

‘BACK DOOR TO DEFY SANCTIONS’The Times

One piece of UK-Iran research focused on upgrading engines used to power drones such as the Shahed-136

Iran weaponises UK uni partnerships

Advanced weaponry, drones, aerospace propulsion systems, AI and sophisticated warfare software are listed among the priorities.

Charlie Parker

Britain's Foreign Secretary James Cleverly arrives for a cabinet meeting at 10 Downing Street in central London on July 4, 2023. (Photo by JUSTIN TALLIS / AFP)

UK slaps stricter sanctions on Iran

MI6 said there were 10 ‘potential threats’ by Tehran to kidnap or kill British citizens or residents last year.

Richard Spencer

US President Joe Biden points to the crowd after speaking during the League of Conservation Voters Annual Capital Dinner, at The Anthem in Washington, DC, on June 14, 2023. (Photo by ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP)

US, Iran begin talks on nukes, prisoners

Talks in Oman seek release of American prisoners as Tehran wants billions of dollars trapped overseas.

Laurence Norman and David S. Cloud

This handout photo provided by Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) official website Sepah News on June 6, 2023 shows the head of the Revolutionary Guard's aerospace division General Amir Ali Hajizadeh speaking during the unveiling ceremony of the 'Fattah' hypersonic missile in Tehran. Iran's Revolutionary Guards unveiled an intermediate range ballistic missile on June 6 capable of travelling at hypersonic speeds of up to 15 times the speed of sound, state television reported. (Photo by SEPAH NEWS / AFP) / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT

Tehran boasts of hypersonic missile

Iran’s military leaders believe precision-guided Fattah could defeat the Jewish state’s Iron Dome missile defence system.

Richard Spencer and

The oil tanker Advantage Sweet in Turkey earlier this year. PHOTO: YORUK ISIK/REUTERS

Oil tanker bound for US seized by Iran

Vessel operated by Turkish company was moving product from Kuwait to Houston.

Dow Jones

U.S. submarine movements aren’t usually publicized unless the Pentagon wants to send a message. PHOTO: ASHLEY BERUMEN/U.S. NAVY/PLANET PIX/ZUMA PRESS

US sends sub in show of force

Guided-missile sub USS Florida is in the Red Sea in response to attacks on American positions by Iran-aligned militants.

Dion Nissenbaum

(FILES) This file photo taken on June 3, 2022 shows supporters of Yemen's Houthi rebels raising portraits of their leader Abdul Malik al-Houthi during a rally in the capital Sanaa, a day after the country's warring parties agreed to renew a two-month truce. - Saudi Arabia and Iran's surprise rapprochement is no

Iran agrees to stop arming Yemen’s Houthis

The civil war is key test for China-brokered deal to restore relations between the regional rivals.

Dion Nissenbaum, Summer Said and Benoit Faucon

People walk in a commercial area in Tehran on February 21, 2023. - Iran's currency plunged to new lows on January 20 amid fresh European Union sanctions, crossing the psychologically important rate of 500,000 rials to a dollar in foreign exchange markets. (Photo by ATTA KENARE / AFP)

Iran’s currency tumbles in new threat to mullahs

‘We buy dollars to prevent our savings’ value going down and down,’ said a woman in Tehran in a line to buy greenbacks.

David S. Cloud and Aresu Eqbali

(FILES) A file photo taken on April 03, 2007 show an Iranian flag fluttering outside the building housing the reactor of the Bushehr nuclear power plant in the Iranian port town of Bushehr, 1200 kms south of Tehran. - Attention is once again focused on how close Iran could be to a nuclear weapon, after Tehran said on July 7, 2019 it had started enriching uranium to a higher level than agreed in a 2015 nuclear deal abandoned by the US. Iranian officials have hinted they may go up to five percent, the level needed to produce fuel for Iran's only nuclear power station at Bushehr. (Photo by Behrouz MEHRI / AFP)

Iran uranium close to weapons grade: UN

The International Atomic Energy Agency says discussions with Tehran are under way to ‘clarify the matter’.

Laurence Norman

Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization has in the past shown the atomic enrichment facilities at its Natanz nuclear research center . PHOTO: -/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE/GETTY IMAGES

Near weapons-grade uranium detected in Iran

Diplomats say they had been informed Iran doesn’t appear to be accumulating a stockpile of 84 per cent material.

Laurence Norman

Khalid Mehdiyev, an Azerbaijani, was allegedly given $30,000 in cash to procure an assault rifle

Gang members hired by Iran to kill activists

Officials fear Tehran’s spies are recruiting gangsters to target opponents of their regime on British and US soil.

DIPESH GADHER

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This image grab taken from a UGC video posted on January 29, 2023, reportedly shows an explosion in Iran's Isfahan province. - Iran repelled a drone attack on a military site in central Isfahan province, the defence ministry said early Sunday acording to the IRNA news agency. (Photo by UGC / AFP) / Israel OUT - NO Resale - NO Internet / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT AFP - SOURCE: ESN/HENGAW - NO MARKETING - NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - NO INTERNET - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS - NO RESALE - NO ARCHIVE -NO ACCESS ISRAEL MEDIA/PERSIAN LANGUAGE TV STATIONS OUTSIDE IRAN/ STRICTLY NO ACCESS BBC PERSIAN/ VOA PERSIAN/ MANOTO-1 TV/ IRAN INTERNATIONAL/RADIO FARDA - AFP IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DIGITAL ALTERATIONS TO THE PICTURE'S EDITORIAL CONTENT /

Attack shows US can’t take its eyes off Iran

Until now, operations conducted against targets in the Islamic republic had been carried out clandestinely.

Rodger Shanahan

Israel launches strike on Iran

Israeli, American officials discuss new ways to combat Iranian operations.

Dion Nissenbaum and Benoit Faucon

headscarf protestsThe Times

TOPSHOT - A handout picture provided by the International Federation of Sport Climbing (IFSC) shows Iranian climber Elnaz Rekabi competing during the women boulder finals of the Asian Championships of the IFSC in Seoul, South Korea. - Alarm grew on October 18, 2022 over the wellbeing of Iranian sports climber Elnaz Rekabi after she competed at an event in South Korea without a hijab in what some saw as a gesture of solidarity with the women-led protests at home. Rekabi, 33, in her first comment since the event on October 16 apologised on Instagram for the

Iranian climber sent home ‘in disgrace’ for not covering hair

Elnaz Rekabi went missing in Seoul before it emerged she had been flown back to Tehran, where she is expected to be jailed.

Richard Spencer

Deal will ‘let Iran build the bomb’

Western diplomats see a path to an agreement, but Israel’s PM says it gives Iran a route to a nuclear weapon.

Dov Lieber and Laurence Norman

(FILES) In this file photo taken on June 09, 2022 photographers and tv cameramen watch a demonstration of a monitoring camera used in Iran during a press conference of Rafael Grossi, Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) about the current situation in Iran at the agency's headquarters in Vienna, Austria. - A US official said August 23, 2022 that Iran has agreed to drop demands to block some UN nuclear inspections, the latest concession that could herald a revival of a 2015 nuclear deal. (Photo by JOE KLAMAR / AFP)

Iran eases demands to revive nuke deal

Washington will shortly to respond through EU mediators after 18 months of indirect diplomacy that weeks ago was on the verge of collapse.

Shaun Tandon

Iranian students from the Islamic hardline Basiji volunteer militia burn US and Israeli flags in the capital Tehran, on July 16 2022, during a protest against the US President's visits to Israel and Saudi Arabia. - US ties to Gulf powers in particular have been roiled by multiple issues in recent years, notably Washington's push for a deal to curb Iran's suspect nuclear programme and its tepid response to attacks on Saudi oil facilities in 2019 claimed by Yemen's Iran-backed Huthi rebels. (Photo by ATTA KENARE / AFP)

Iran has ‘technical ability’ to build nuclear bomb

The comments come after Joe Biden signed a security pact with Israel vowing to prevent Iran from acquiring nukes.

AFP

(FILES) In this file photo taken on July 2, 2012, Iranian Revolutionary Guards drive speedboats during a ceremony to commemorate the 24th anniversary of the downing of Iran Air flight 655 by the US navy, at the port of Bandar Abbas. - Iran's Revolutionary Guards seized two Greek oil tankers in the Gulf on May 27, days after Athens confirmed it would deliver to Washington Iranian oil it had seized from a Russian tanker. (Photo by Atta KENARE / AFP)

Iranian military seizes two Greek oil tankers

Helicopters boarded two ships days after US ordered the confiscation of cargo near Greece.

Benoit Faucon and Costas Paris

This 25 May 2012, left, and 09 Apr 2012 combination photo provided by the Institute for Science and International Security, ISIS shows evidence of extensive earth dumping in the pond to the north of a high explosive test site and signs of fresh traffic on the road leading to the pond. A nonproliferation think tank has published satellite images of an Iranian military site linked to suspected secret work on nuclear arms that it says show strong evidence of a cleanup. The commercial satellite photos obtained by the Institute for Science and International Security of Iran?s Parchin facility appear to show that two buildings there were demolished. ISIS says that, and other activities at the site such as digging up and moving earth strengthen U.N. suspicions of a clean-up. (AP Photo/ISIS, handout)

Person dies in ‘accident’ near Iran military site

Iran’s nuclear program has been the target of sabotage, cyberattacks and assassinations that it has blamed on Israel.

AFP

EDITORS NOTE: Graphic content / A picture shows two women mourning next to the body of Iranian Revolutionary Guards colonel Sayyad Khodai, after he was shot dead, in his car in the Iranian capital Tehran on May 22, 2022. - An Iranian Revolutionary Guards colonel was shot dead outside his Tehran home, the Guards said, blaming his

Tehran accuses ‘US allies’ of gunning down Guards officer

It is the most high profile murder inside Iran since the November 2020 killing of top nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh.

Ahmad Parhizi

WASHINGTON, DC - APRIL 28: U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken testifies before the House Foreign Affairs Committee about the FY2023 budget request for the State Department in the Rayburn House Office Building on Capitol Hill on April 28, 2022 in Washington, DC. Blinken recently traveled to Ukraine with Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin to meet with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and other leaders as that country continues to defend itself against a military invasion by Russia. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images/AFP == FOR NEWSPAPERS, INTERNET, TELCOS & TELEVISION USE ONLY ==

Fresh push to revive Iran nuclear deal

Talks have hit a deadlock over Iran’s demand that Washington lift terror designation on Iran’s Revolutionary Guards.

Laurence Norman

Arms for Hamas put on drones

Israel says it shot down long-range drones launched from Iran last year as the US and its allies close in on reviving Iranian nuclear deal

Dion Nissenbaum