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Secretary of State Marco Rubio has yanked the green cards of three more Iranian nationals tied to Tehran who were living it up in the US – a week after the arrest of the niece and grandniece of the late Iranian mastermind, Gen. Qasem Soleimani.
US Navy ships reportedly crossed the Strait of Hormuz on Saturday afternoon as US-Iran ceasefire negotiations kicked off in Pakistan, though Iran denied the reports and threatened to attack any unauthorized ships in the strait.
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Iran threatened to attack any US Navy ships that enter the Strait of Hormuz shortly after American vessels moved through the channel for the first time since the war broke out.
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Following President Trump’s announcement of a cease-fire, US Central Command (CENTCOM) commander Admiral Brad Cooper stated: “Iran has suffered a generational military defeat.”
US President Donald Trump has said Iran's only threat now is "sea mines" in the Strait of Hormuz.
Axios reporting that 'several' US Navy warships crossed the Hormuz Strait on Saturday without coordination with Tehran in a huge, surprising development.
US Navy ships have crossed the Strait of Hormuz for the first time since the start of the war with Iran, according to a report citing intelligence officials.
The United States and Iran are holding in-person talks in the Pakistani capital to end their six-week-old war.
TEHRAN, Iran — Iranian media said on Saturday that negotiations with the United States to end the Middle East war had begun in Islamabad, though the format of the talks remained unclear.
After six weeks of a war with Iran that has jolted energy markets and fueled worries about the global economy, Americans are confronting what the conflict means for their lives, even as a fragile ceasefire takes hold.
Senior officials from the United States and Iran commenced negotiations on Saturday in Islamabad, with the help of Pakistani intermediaries.
A fragile ceasefire has paused the fighting between the United States and Iran, but it has not resolved the issues that drove the war in the first place. The deal has quieted one front, yet the most volatile questions remain open: the status of Iran’s enriched uranium, the future of the Strait of Hormuz, and Israel’…
A vile nurse who was fired after she went on an unhinged antisemitic rant in Times Square once traveled to Iran and bashed the US as the “most criminal, evil entity on the planet.”
Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has said he "appreciated Iran's engagement" after meeting an Iranian delegation, including Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi.
US and Iranian officials held separate talks with Pakistan’s prime minister on Saturday amid a ceasefire made fragile by deep disagreements and unabated fighting in Lebanon. International media reported that the two countries had also started direct talks in the afternoon.
China is preparing to deliver new air defense systems to Iran in the next few weeks, according to a report citing sources with knowledge of US intelligence.
Iran dropped explosives in the waterway erratically and may not have marked where it put all of them, US suggests
Pakistan’s defense minister deleted a sharply worded social media post about Israel on Wednesday after it triggered a diplomatic backlash at a sensitive moment for Islamabad, which has been trying to help facilitate indirect US-Iran contacts linked to a newly announced two-week ceasefire and broader regional tension…
U.S. Vice President JD Vance waves after arriving for talks with Iranian officials in Islamabad, April 11. (Pool via Reuters)
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"US President Donald Trump is now assessing whether Iran is prepared to unblock the Strait of Hormuz, restore oil flows, and ultimately reach an agreement that he can present as a face-saving victory," writes Iranian-Canadian political analyst Shahir Shahidsaless for Middle East Eye.
Israel carried out attacks across Lebanon following the announcement of a ceasefire with Iran, with reports of 100 Israeli air strikes in just 10 minutes - that killed at least 303 people.
As the president spirals over his disastrous war, his threats have escalated beyond the red line of international law
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The two-week ceasefire between Iran and the US, which began on 8 April, marks both a diplomatic opening and a test to determine whether a lasting agreement can end this destructive war.
Delegations from Iran and the U.S. are in Pakistan’s capital, Islamabad, on Saturday to begin negotiations on a peace deal after Washington and Tehran reached a fragile ceasefire to the Middle East war earlier this week.
Parallel to the ongoing war between Iran on one side and Israel and the United States on the other, another battle is unfolding, this time among Arabs themselves, or those who claim to be, across social media and parts of the media landscape.
US officials intend to demand the release of Americans detained in Iran, as part of the Islamabad negotiations with the regime to end the war, The Washington Post reported on Friday.
On Wednesday, as the proposed two-week halt to the war on Iran was being announced, Sudan’s army-led government issued a statement condemning Iranian strikes on energy infrastructure in Saudi Arabia’s Jubail industrial city.
Iranian Foreign Minister Araghchi has told his German counterpart, Johan Wadephul, that Iran is entering talks with the US with "complete distrust", according to the Mehr news agency.
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By attacking Iran, the US has put the global economic order in jeopardy
By attacking Iran, the US has put the global economic order in jeopardy
S&P Global Ratings has lowered its 2026 economic growth forecasts for the UK and Egypt, citing risks and uncertainties stemming from the US-Iran war.
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US Vice President JD Vance flew into the Pakistani capital, Islamabad, on Saturday for high-stakes talks aimed at ending the six-week-old war with Iran, despite Tehran’s earlier insistence that negotiations could not begin without commitments on Lebanon and sanctions.
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Iran’s new Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei is still recovering from severe facial and leg injuries suffered in the airstrike that killed his father at the beginning of the war, three people close to his inner circle told Reuters.
Iran’s negotiating delegation is set to meet Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif in Islamabad, according to reports by the Tasnim news agency.
Pakistan confirmed the arrival of a delegation of Iranian negotiators ahead of talks on Saturday with the U.S. to end the six-week-old war Washington and Tel Aviv have led against Tehran.
Iran reportedly lost track of the locations of mines deployed in the Strait of Hormuz and has no clear idea of where all the mines were placed, US officials told the New York Times on Friday.
Iran's new Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei is still recovering from severe facial and leg injuries suffered in the airstrike that killed his father at the beginning of the war, three people close to his inner circle told Reuters.
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Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf said Tehran has entered negotiations in Islamabad “in good faith” despite deep mistrust of the United States, according to remarks carried by the IRNA news agency after his arrival on Friday.
US Vice President JD Vance and senior envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner have arrived in Islamabad for talks with Iran, Reuters reported, citing Pakistani sources.