Iran Nuclear

Iran has intelligence indicating that the United States is using diplomatic overtures as cover for military preparations, state TV reported citing an unnamed Iranian official who said Tehran should prepare for conflict instead of engaging in talks.

Just one of the three nuclear facilities struck by the US in Iran last month has been destroyed, according to a report by NBC News citing current and former US officials.

US President Donald Trump expects Iran to return to nuclear negotiations, saying that diplomacy is in Tehran's best interest, according to the State Department Spokeswoman Tammy Bruce.

Tehran’s commentariat is sounding the alarm over the economic toll of renewed United Nations sanctions that European powers say they could trigger against Iran by the end of August.

Democratic lawmakers have demanded a formal reckoning of the costs and results of a surprise US attack on Iranian nuclear sites last month with mixed success, as misgivings with the strikes persists in some quarters of Congress.

President Donald Trump on Wednesday said Iran's nuclear program had been dealt an irreparable blow by US attacks last month and that he was in no rush to resume negotiations with Tehran despite its alleged eagerness.

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Wednesday signed a nuclear cooperation deal with Bahrain and in an apparent reference to Iran said Washington was ready to back peaceful nuclear programs which do not menace neighbors.

Iran’s parliament on Wednesday demanded that the government halt all new negotiations with the United States unless strict preconditions are met, citing what lawmakers called Washington’s use of diplomacy as cover for military escalation.

The United States is in no hurry to enter talks with Iran, President Donald Trump said on Tuesday, pointing to last month’s American strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities as a source of leverage.

United Nations sanctions on Iran will be restored via the so-called "snapback mechanism" if no nuclear deal is reached by end of August, the US, British, French and German foreign ministers agreed in a Monday call, according to a report by Axios.

Iran may now decide to develop nuclear weapons following the US attacks on its main nuclear sites last month, former US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in an interview.

Iran could boost its uranium enrichment to 90%, weapons-grade level, and consider exiting the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) if European powers move to trigger the UN snapback sanctions mechanism, Tasnim News reported on Tuesday.

France, Britain, and Germany will activate the United Nations snapback mechanism against Iran by the end of August if no tangible progress is made on a nuclear deal by then, French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot said on Tuesday.

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian told Iranians abroad in an open letter on Monday that Tehran was determined to mend fences abroad through diplomacy and fix its economy, weeks after a punishing conflict with Israel and the United States.

Iran will deliver a "proportionate and appropriate response" if European parties move to re-activate the UN snapback mechanism to reinstate international sanctions removed under the 2015 nuclear deal, Foreign Ministry Spokesman Esmail Baghaei said on Monday.

More than 400 senior clerics in Iran’s holy city of Qom have backed a religious decree labeling threats against Supreme Leader as “moharebeh” or “waging war against God,” a crime in Islamic law that can carry the death penalty.

An advisor to Iran's parliament speaker has shared an image that seems to show a nuclear attack on Israel.

A senior Iranian lawmaker on Saturday accused International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) inspectors of hiding surveillance microchips in their shoes during visits to Iran’s nuclear sites.