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World leaders have urged US president Donald Trump not to take any rash action that would prevent them from working on the Iran nuclear deal after he announced the US is pulling out of the deal.

If negotiations fail over the nuclear deal, the Islamic Republic will enrich uranium "more than before... in the next weeks".

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said his military "won't stop" efforts to oust Syrian Kurdish fighters from Syria's north, as the leaders of Turkey, Russia and Iran met for talks on the conflict.

Despite their difference Iran and Russia are both becoming big players in the Middle

Iran's president Hassan Rouhani has said people are free to protest in his first comments since widespread demonstrations against the government began.

A wave of spontaneous protests over Iran’s weak economy have swept into Tehran, with students and others chanting against the government just hours after hard-liners held their own rally in support of the clerical establishment.

Police in Iran's capital Tehran have said they will no longer arrest women for failing to observe the Islamic dress code in place since the 1979 revolution.

The husband of imprisoned UK woman Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has hailed the "first ripple of freedom", as a new court case against his wife was postponed.

IN disavowing the hard-won 2015 Iran nuclear deal, US president Donald Trump has just made the world more dangerous for this and future generations, angering both friends and foes in the process.

All players in the Middle East must value diplomacy not conflict, writes Jeffrey D Sachs

‘Russian hackers’ are blamed for everything, the latest being breaching Qatar’s news agency, sparking a row with the Saudis. This makes no sense, says Leonid Bershidsky.

Iran's incumbent president Hassan Rouhani has a commanding 58% lead over his rivals in an initial and partial count of votes in the election, according to official figures announced on Saturday morning.

Voting has begun in Iran's first presidential election since its nuclear deal with world powers, as incumbent Hassan Rouhani faced a staunch challenge from a hard-line opponent over his outreach to the wider world.

The UN Security Council unanimously adopted a resolution supporting efforts by Russia and Turkey to end the nearly six-year conflict in Syria and jump-start peace negotiations.

Iran's president has said his country will not allow President-elect Donald Trump to "tear up" the country's landmark nuclear deal with world powers.

The Monte Toledo oil tanker covered the uneventful voyage from Iran to Europe with a haul of one million barrels of crude in just 17 days, but its journey has been four years in the making.

Iran did not make any specific requests for Rome museum officials to cover up naked statues, Iranian president Hassan Rouhani has said.

Here’s a briefing on some of the stories and issues highlighted on irishexaminer.com today.

Dozens of people arrested in Iran for crimes committed before they turned 18 remain at risk of the death penalty, despite reforms.

Iran has accused the Saudi-led coalition battling Shiite rebels in Yemen of hitting its embassy there in an overnight air strike.

Iran’s president has said that Saudi Arabia cannot “cover up” its crime of executing a leading Shi’ite cleric by severing diplomatic relations with the Islamic Republic.

President Barack Obama and Iran’s foreign minister shook hands when they ran into one another on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York.

British prime minister dismisses efforts to back Bashar al-Assad

Saudi Arabia, under growing pressure to account for a crush that killed more than 700 people at the hajj pilgrimage, suggested pilgrims failing to follow crowd control rules bore some blame for the worst disaster at the event for 25 years.

Iran will remain closed to US influence and continue to oppose US policies in the Middle East after its nuclear deal with big powers, supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said yesterday, noting either country can still block the accord.

US president Barack Obama’s administration sent a nuclear agreement with Tehran to congress yesterday.

Iran and six major world powers yesterday reached a nuclear deal, capping more than a decade of negotiations with an agreement that could transform the Middle East.

THERE is an apocryphal tale of a verbal joust between Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev and US president John F Kennedy during the Cuban missile crisis of October, 1962.

The destabilisation in Yemen proves that the Iranian government under the supposedly ‘moderate’ Hassan Rouhani is as threatening to peace in the Middle East as any of his more overtly anti-western predecessors. Human Rights Watch has accused the Iranian-sponsored Houthi rebels “of possible war crimes, including using snipers to shoot civilians”.

Iran’s top leader yesterday stopped short of giving his endorsement to the framework nuclear deal struck last week between Tehran and world powers, while the country’s president warned separately that Tehran’s approval of a final deal depends on the immediate lifting of all sanctions related to its controversial nuclear programme.

Rush-hour passengers in the busy metro system of Iran’s capital have brushed shoulders with a surprising commuter — President Hassan Rouhani.

France and the US today stepped up demands for Iran to prove that its nuclear programme is peaceful.

Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has warned that Hamas and the Islamic State group (IS) are “branches of the same poisonous tree,” both bent on world domination through terror, just as the Nazis were.

Iraq’s prime minister said his country’s intelligence operation had uncovered a plot for an imminent attack on subway systems in the United States and Paris.

British Prime Minister David Cameron has voiced his support for air strikes carried out by the United States and Arab allies on Islamic State militants in Syria.