Iran

Tehran announced Saturday it has started up advanced uranium enrichment centrifuges, Iranian media covered the news.

Mohammad Nourizad, a prominent political activist jailed in Tehran’s notorious prison of Evin, in a letter asked Iranians to boycott the presidential election in June. 

The European Union says Iran, a group of European countries, Russia and China will hold virtual talks on April 2 about the possible return of the United States to a 2015 nuclear deal.

The European Union will target eight Iranian militia and police commanders and three state entities with sanctions next week over a deadly crackdown in November 2019 by Iranian authorities, three diplomats said on Wednesday according to Reuters.

Advisors to the US President Joe Biden believe Iran wants to start debating the 2015 nuclear deal, Reuters reported.

Iran will not stop its 20% uranium enrichment before the United States lifts all sanctions, Iranian state TV quoted an unnamed official as saying on Tuesday.

Iran claimed that its Bushehr power plant could stop functioning this year as the country struggles to keep the unit running because of US sanctions, the semi-official Iranian Students’ News Agency quoted Mahmoud Jafari, a deputy a

China and Iran signed a 25-year cooperation agreement on Saturday to strengthen their long-standing economic and political alliance.

Both countries are subject to US sanctions.

A group of Iranian army commanders have seized hundreds of hectares of residential lands in Khuzestan, classified documents received by Avatoday show.

Iran will cold test its re-designed Arak nuclear reactor as the country is planning the facility’s full commissioning later in the year, Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization said on Friday, according to Reuters.