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Iran
Khamenei dismisses US nuclear proposal, and says Iran will keep enriching uranium
Five rounds of nuclear talks have not bridged gaps as Iran’s leaders grapple with multiple crises
Trump tells Iran sanctions will remain until it ends nuclear programme
US demands Iran end all uranium-enrichment activities, including those relating to power generation and medical treatment
Iran has increased stockpile of highly enriched uranium, watchdog reveals
UN nuclear agency reiterates urgent call for co-operation
As Trump seeks Iran deal, Israel again raises possibility of strikes on nuclear sites
At the core of the tension between Netanyahu and Trump is their differing views of how best to exploit Iranian weakness
Seeing Israel use hunger as a weapon of war is monstrous to me as someone with a Holocaust legacy
Deliberate starvation of an entire people is a monstrous strategy, openly endorsed by cabinet members - horrifying, illegal and counter to Jewish morality and collective memory
Iran will survive if nuclear deal not agreed with US, says president
Uranium enrichment remains a core issue of contention between the sides
Zlatan wins the aerial battle but Michael D Higgins still comes home with another striking prize
Plus: Bloomsday hits Tehran (despite Ulysses ban); a great gig for tunnelling experts; and Norman naysayer Aengus Ó Snodaigh
Iranian director Jafar Panahi wins Palme d’Or at Cannes for It Was Just an Accident
Harry Lighton’s Pillion, produced by Dublin-based Element Pictures, takes award for best screenplay in the Un Certain Regard section
US and Iran to hold nuclear talks in Rome amid clashing red lines
Differences over uranium enrichment put fate of negotiations in the balance
Ramaphosa to face into a storm when he meets Trump, whose list of grievances against South Africa is long
US president unhappy at plight of Afrikaners, Pretoria’s court case against Israel and its ties with ‘rogue’ states like Iran
Tehran accuses US of lacking seriousness on deal to limit Iran’s nuclear programme
Iranian foreign minister says US envoy Steve Witkoff is ‘at a distance from reality of negotiations’
Man sentenced to 25 years in prison for attempted murder of author Salman Rushdie
Hadi Matar stabbed author 15 times at 2022 literary gathering in New York, causing severe injuries to his right eye, liver and intestines
Binyamin Netanyahu reduced to spectator as Donald Trump tours Middle East
US president bypasses Israel as he eyes Gulf billions, meets Syrian leader and pursues detente with Iran
Israeli concern over reported Trump shift on Saudi nuclear talks
Riyadh normalising relations with Israel had been US precondition for progressing civilian nuclear programme discussions
UK police arrest seven Iranian nationals in counter-terrorism operations
Men arrested as part of two separate investigations
Iran port explosion: Death toll rises to 40
Russia dispatches firefighters to Bandar Abbas as more than 1,000 injured in blast
Iran and US hold third round of nuclear talks
New deal could reshape regional and global security and transform Iran’s economic and political landscape
Iran port explosion: At least 18 killed and 700 injured
Shahid Rajaee is a large Iranian container facility that handles 80m tonnes of goods a year
The Great Betrayal: The Struggle for Freedom and Democracy in the Middle East by Fawaz A Gerges – engaging read for seasoned observers
The scope is perhaps too broad, and the prose a little dry, for this book to appeal to the general reader
Dutch government summons Iranian ambassador after claims Tehran behind attempted murders
Netherlands’ intelligence agency points finger at Iran for attempts to kill activist and Spanish former MEP
Iran and France signal readiness for nuclear talks amid US negotiations
Third round of talks between Tehran and Washington due to be held on Saturday in Oman
‘My son was killed in front of my eyes. Three bullets in his chest’: Patrick Freyne in Chad’s desert camps
An unforgiving conflict between rival military factions has killed 150,000 people. Another 12 million people are displaced, many fleeing to a huge desert camp in eastern Chad. Photographs by Chris Maddaloni
With promise of peace unmet in Gaza and Ukraine, Trump may find Iran just as tough
Negotiators are lowering any expectations of a swift breakthrough in the decades-long dispute ahead of talks between the US and Iran in Rome
United Nations nuclear watchdog chief invited to US-Iran talks
Rafael Grossi has warned that Tehran could be close to having the capacity to manufacture nuclear weapons
Vodafone feared it was breaching EU sanctions on Iran
European telecoms firms are working with entity likely linked to Islamic Revolutionary Guard, company claims
Israel watches with concern as US and Iran prepare to resume nuclear talks
Israeli sources fear the US position in the talks with Iran may fall short of the 2003 deal with Libya, under which Tripoli agreed to dismantle its nuclear weapons
Iran and US agree to further talks over Tehran’s nuclear programme
Countries began high-level talks in Oman on Saturday
Differences remain as US-Iran nuclear deal talks begin
Iran enters discussions in a position of weakness following a series of reverses
Trump signals possible progress on Iranian nuclear issue
US president says ‘very high level’ talks will take place on Saturday
Trump says US and Iran beginning direct talks on Tehran’s nuclear programme
US president says he prefers a deal over military confrontation
Trump says Iran would be in ‘great danger’ if direct talks fail
US president says Middle East country ‘cannot have a nuclear weapon’
Trump’s bombing threat over Iran nuclear programme prompts backlash
US president said Iran could face ‘bombing the likes of which they have never seen before’
Iran’s hardliners dig in as Donald Trump increases pressure for nuclear talks
Reformist president Masoud Pezeshkian’s hopes for detente with West in tatters as rival factions tighten grip on power
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