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  • Tuesday, 19 September, 2023
    Sanam Vakil
    Western policy towards Iran lacks both goals and goalposts

    The release of prisoners and anniversary of the killing of Mahsa Amini highlight a failure to solve the challenges from Tehran

    A woman stands on a car roof as a huge throng of people fill the road ahead
  • Tuesday, 19 September, 2023
    Iran nuclear crisis lingers for White House despite prisoner swap

    More diplomacy possible in New York this week, but rivals must overcome decades of distrust

    US nationals Siamak Namazi, Emad Sharqi, and Morad Tahbaz, who were among five prisoners released from Iran, disembark from a plane upon landing in Doha, Qatar
  • Monday, 18 September, 2023
    Iran releases prisoners in swap deal with US

    Exchange agreed after months of negotiations has potential to de-escalate tensions between arch foes

    Siamak Namazi and Morad Tahbaz, who were released during a prisoner swap deal between the US and Iran, arrive at Doha International Airport, Qatar
  • Thursday, 14 September, 2023
    Iran nuclear deal
    European powers to retain sanctions aimed at deterring Iran nuclear ambitions

    France, Germany and UK say curbs due to expire next month will now be continued, prompting ire in Tehran

    Iranian officials including Ayatollah Ali Khamenei inspect centrifuges in Tehran, Iran
  • Tuesday, 12 September, 2023
    US moves ahead with Iran prisoner swap and release of $6bn of frozen oil revenues

    Washington hopes deal will bring progress in nuclear talks and other areas of tension with Tehran

    The Iranian and US flags printed on paper
  • Thursday, 7 September, 2023
    Owner of ship seized carrying Iranian oil pleads guilty in US court

    Case involving the Suez Rajan further threatens to raise tensions between Washington and Tehran

    A satellite image of the oil tanker Suez Rajan
  • Wednesday, 16 August, 2023
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    The US and Iran look for de-escalation

    Risk of deepening nuclear crisis remains, but any efforts to contain it are welcome

    President Ebrahim Raisi of Iran at a military parade in Tehran.
  • Wednesday, 16 August, 2023
    Iran nuclear deal
    US asks Iran to stop selling drones to Russia

    Washington raises issue in indirect talks aiming to de-escalate nuclear crisis

    In this picture released by the official website of the Iranian army, Iran-made drones are displayed in a ceremony
  • Friday, 11 August, 2023
    FT live news
    Live news updates from August 11: Global oil demand hits record, China’s bank lending plummets
  • Thursday, 10 August, 2023
    Iran transfers five imprisoned Americans to house arrest

    Washington expected to release $6bn of Tehran’s frozen money in diplomatic breakthrough

    A prison guard stands along a corridor in Tehran’s Evin prison
  • Thursday, 29 June, 2023
    US special envoy for Iran on leave amid security clearance review

    State department’s Rob Malley expects ‘investigation to be resolved favourably and soon’

    Rob Malley
  • Friday, 23 June, 2023
    US Dollar
    Yellen defends dollar as Brics nations debate reserve status

    South Africa’s president Cyril Ramaphosa says greenback’s dominance is ‘on the agenda’ for Brics meeting

    Janet Yellen
  • Tuesday, 20 June, 2023
    The Big Read
    Can Iran’s march to nuclear statehood be halted?

    As the Islamic republic enriches uranium to higher levels than ever, western diplomats try to reignite talks

    Montage image of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, IR-6 centrifuges, the IAEA logo and the Iranian flag
  • Monday, 12 June, 2023
    Iran
    Iran’s car sector buckles under impact of sanctions

    Vehicles are in short supply and prices are high as country’s biggest non-energy industry struggles to source crucial inputs

    The production line in Iran Khodro Car Factory
  • Sunday, 11 June, 2023
    US expected to begin unloading oil from seized Iranian tanker

    Tit-for-tat maritime incidents increase tensions between Washington and Tehran

    A satellite image of the Iranian oil tanker Suez Rajan off Galveston on May 30
  • Friday, 9 June, 2023
    War in Ukraine
    US publishes new details of Russia-Iran military drone co-operation

    Tehran sending material for assembly of unmanned aircraft in Russian factory, says Washington

    Man clears debris from a building damaged by a drone attack
  • Friday, 2 June, 2023
    Iran nuclear deal
    West resumes talks over how to deal with Iran nuclear crisis

    Diplomatic shift comes amid fears Tehran’s expansive programme risks regional war

    People walk in street in Tehran
  • Friday, 19 May, 2023
    Iran
    Iran executes three men over last year’s anti-regime protests

    Hangings carried out in defiance of international calls for leniency

    Saleh Mirhashemi, on trial in Isfahan
  • Wednesday, 3 May, 2023
    Iran seizes second oil tanker in a week as tensions with US increase

    Tehran steps up retaliation for seizure of its ship, raising concerns about security in key shipping lane

    A screenshot supplied by the US Navy of a video showing fast-attack craft from Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard navy swarming the oil tanker Niovi in the Strait of Hormuz on Wednesday
  • Friday, 28 April, 2023
    US seizure of oil vessel triggered Iran tanker capture

    Authorities in US redirected ship of Iranian oil bound for China in recent days, prompting retaliation from Tehran

    A US Navy drone boat and US coast guard cutter John Scheuerman in the Strait of Hormuz
  • Thursday, 27 April, 2023
    Iran seizes US-bound oil tanker in Gulf of Oman

    The Advantage Sweet had sailed from Kuwait and was taken from international waters

    The Advantage Sweet at sea
  • Monday, 17 April, 2023
    Gideon Rachman
    How the Ukraine war has divided the world

    China is making diplomatic progress with countries that are unhappy about America’s approach to the conflict

    Illustration of  Xi Jinping unscrewing the frame of the globe, while Joe Biden is patting a dog on grass in the background.
  • Sunday, 16 April, 2023
    David McCloskey
    Russia’s myth-making in Syria was a template for the horrors in Ukraine

    Moscow’s support for Assad is a precedent for its scorched-earth strategy against Kyiv

    María Hergueta illustration of Putin and Assad side profiles on a war field fence made from barbed wire, drawn on a red background.
  • Sunday, 26 March, 2023
    Russian politics
    Putin plans to deploy tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus

    Russian president denies the move would violate Moscow’s non-proliferation obligations

    Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, center, and general director at Tactical Missiles Corporation Boris Obnosov, left, at tactical missiles production facility outside Moscow,
  • Friday, 24 March, 2023
    Syrian crisis
    US air strikes target Iran-backed militants in Syria

    Washington retaliates following drone attack that killed an American contractor

    Lloyd Austin
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