Iran-US Prisoner Swap Inches Closer to Completion
DUBAI, Sept 11 (Reuters) - Iran is optimistic a prisoner swap with Washington will happen "in the near future", Iranian foreign ministry spokesperson said on Monday, adding that Tehran's frozen $6 billion assets in South Korea...
UK to Designate Wagner A Terrorist Group; No Designation For IRGC
By Ahmad Rafat
The UK government plans to designate the Wagner Group, a Russian state-funded private military company, a terrorist organization on Sept. 13.
Under the Terrorism Act 2000, being a member of the Wagner Group...
Harvard Art Museums Appoints Mitra Abbaspour Head of Modern and Contemporary Art
By Nazanine Nouri
The Harvard Art Museums have appointed Mitra Abbaspour as their new curator of modern and contemporary art, as well as the head of the department. Abbaspour was previously a curator at the...
UK Foreign Minister to Warn of Iran Threat on Visit to Israel
LONDON, Sept 11 (Reuters) - British foreign minister James Cleverly will travel to Israel and the Palestinian territories this week, where he will press for renewed dialogue on a two-state solution and commit to tackling threats...
US-Iran Relations From 1953 Coup to 2023 Prisoner Swap Deal
DUBAI, Sept 10 (Reuters) - Iran has agreed with Washington to free five U.S. citizens in exchange for the transfer of $6 billion in frozen Iranian assets in South Korea to banks in Qatar and the release of...
Iran, US on Verge of Prisoner Swap Under Qatar-Mediated Deal
By Parisa Hafezi and Andrew Mills
DUBAI/DOHA, Sept 10 (Reuters) - When $6 billion of unfrozen Iranian funds are wired to banks in Qatar as early as next week, it will trigger a carefully choreographed sequence that will...
Iranian-American Prisoners Involved in Swap, Fund Release
DUBAI, Aug 11 (Reuters) - Iran may free five detained U.S. citizens as part of a deal under which $6 billion in Iranian funds in South Korea would be unfrozen and has moved four of them from jail...
US Says It Disrupts Illicit Oil Shipment by Iran’s Revolutionary Guards
By Arathy Somasekhar and Jonathan Saul
HOUSTON, Sept 8 (Reuters) - The U.S. on Friday divulged it disrupted in April a multimillion-dollar shipment of crude oil by Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, seizing more than 980,000 barrels of contraband crude oil...
ANALYSIS- Iran’s Nuclear Slowdown May Prop up US Hopes to Ease Tensions
By Arshad Mohammed and Francois Murphy
WASHINGTON/VIENNA, Sept 6 (Reuters) - Iran's limited steps to slow its buildup of near-weapons-grade uranium may help ease U.S.-Iranian tensions but do not signify progress toward a wider nuclear deal before...
Iran Detains Mahsa Amini’s Uncle as Anniversary of Her Death, Protests Looms
DUBAI, Sept 6 (Reuters) - Iran's security forces have detained a relative of a Kurdish Iranian woman days before the anniversary of her death in the custody of the morality police that sparked months of nationwide protests,...
