Iran

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.

Iran has started enriching uranium at its underground Natanz plant with a second type of advanced centrifuge, the IR-4, the UN nuclear watchdog said in a report reviewed by Reuters on Tuesday.

Iran State TV broadcasted video footage of the second vast underground missile base capable of “remote warfare” this year.

French tourist Benjamin Briere, who was arrested in Iran 10 months ago, faces charges of “spying and propaganda against the system”, one of his lawyers told Reuters on Monday.

The United States’ re-entry in the Iran nuclear deal would make the Middle East “less stable” and the region “less secure,” former secretary of state Mike Pompeo warned on Sunday.

The United States and Iran have engaged in indirect diplomacy with Europeans and others sending messages about how they might resume compliance with the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan sa

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Wednesday asked Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani to free all dual nationals.

The US State Department on Tuesday blacklisted two Iranian government interrogators due to the use of torture and other human rights violations.