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May 30, 2026

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A rare sighting in the Nava mountains of Iran’s Ma

A rare sighting in the Nava mountains of Iran’s Mazandaran province has produced new footage of a Pallas’s cat, also known as a manul, one of the country’s most elusive and poorly understood felines. The species is named after the German naturalist Peter Simon Pallas, who first described it in the 18th century. Nature enthusiast Majid Batebi said little is known about the species’ range or numbers in Iran, and that the sighting points to the need to protect Mazandaran’s mountain habitats beyond the Hyrcanian forests.
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DUBAI/WASHINGTON, Aug 17 (Reuters) – Iran will shi

DUBAI/WASHINGTON, Aug 17 (Reuters) – Iran will shift to a “fully offensive” military posture because efforts to negotiate a permanent end to the war with the U.S. have stalled, a senior Iranian official told Reuters on Monday, as Washington ruled out extending a temporary ceasefire agreement.

Outward progress towards peace talks and a resumption of oil tanker traffic through the strategic Strait of Hormuz has ground to a halt, threatening to extend the conflict that the U.S. and Israel launched with attacks on Iran on February 28.

“Iranian entities must be prepared to escalate tensions in the Strait of Hormuz and wider region, as Iran will be ready to make decisions and take action on difficult decisions,” the Iranian official said, adding that Tehran would conduct a “timely and precise” military attack to break the U.S. naval blockade if diplomacy failed.

A memorandum of understanding signed in June to end the war had given Iran and the U.S. until Monday to reach a final peace agreement.

Signed on June 17, the memorandum set a 60-day time frame for a broader deal on Iran‘s nuclear programme and U.S. sanctions.

The agreement, which declared the “immediate and permanent termination of military operations on all fronts,” quickly unravelled over a dispute about control of the Strait of Hormuz, the narrow waterway through which a fifth of global oil and liquefied natural gas flowed before the war.

Asked by reporters on Monday if the U.S. was seeking to extend June’s interim agreement, U.S. President Donald Trump said no.

In one glimmer of diplomacy, media reports said Trump had opened back-channel discussions with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, which has become more powerful during the war and controls large parts of Iran‘s armed forces and the economy.

Axios, citing two sources with direct knowledge, reported that former Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard spoke with an Iraqi Kurdish leader with close ties to the IRGC, and that through this intermediary the U.S. delivered a message to IRGC commander General Ahmad Vahidi. Fox News later reported that Trump confirmed the report in a telephone interview.

Aug 18 (Reuters) – The United Kingdom Maritime Tra

Aug 18 (Reuters) – The United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) received a report on Tuesday that a vessel was struck by an unknown projectile while transiting outbound in the Strait of Hormuz, causing engine room damage and a crew casualty, with the remaining crew being assisted by the Omani Coast Guard.

No environmental impact has been reported and authorities are investigating, UKMTO said.

The incident comes as shipping through the Strait of Hormuz remains severely disrupted, with vessel crossings still in the single digits, down from more than 130 a day before the war.

(Reporting by Tala Ramadan; Editing by Christian Schmollinger and Shri Navaratnam)

DUBAI, Aug 17 (Reuters) – Iran said on Monday that

DUBAI, Aug 17 (Reuters) – Iran said on Monday that two French embassy employees involved in a diplomatic dispute last month would not be allowed to return to Iran.

Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei said the two had violated the Vienna Convention – which defines the rules and privileges of diplomatic missions – engaging in activities supporting Iranian civil society.

“Insisting that these individuals were engaged in activities related to supporting civil society is itself an admission that the Vienna Convention was violated,” Baghaei told a weekly press conference, without elaborating.

Tehran has long been highly sensitive to what it sees as Western meddling in its internal affairs, especially since the U.S. and Israel launched attacks on Iran in late February in a conflict that continues to rage.

French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot, in an interview with France Inter last month, said the mission of the two embassy employees concerned was to “develop programmes supporting Iranian civil society, students, and artists (…) France is one of the countries in the world that does the most for Iranian civil society, and we have paid the price for it.”

France summoned Iran‘s charge d’affaires on July 21 after accusing Iranian security forces of detaining and physically intimidating its embassy staff in Tehran.

(Reporting by Dubai Newsroom, Editing by Gareth Jones)

WASHINGTON, Aug 17 (Reuters) – U.S. President Dona

WASHINGTON, Aug 17 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday that Iran should surrender to end a war with the U.S. as talks between the countries remained stalled.

“They should put up the white flag of surrender,” Trump told a Fox News reporter during a phone interview.

An interim deal agreed to in June declared an “immediate and permanent termination of military operations on all fronts”, but quickly unraveled, with Trump saying it was “over” on July 7 and Iran‘s foreign ministry declaring it “suspended” a week later.

Under that memorandum of understanding, Iran and the U.S. committed to negotiating a final deal — covering broader issues such as the fate of Iran‘s nuclear programme — in a maximum of 60 days, extendable by mutual consent. Monday marks 60 days since the MOU was signed.

Separately, Oman and Iran have been in talks to try to reach an agreement to restore commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz, which carried 20% of the world’s oil and liquefied natural gas supplies before the U.S.-Israeli attacks on Iran began in late February.

“If Oman gets in the way, we’ll bomb the shit out of them,” Trump told Fox.

The dispute over control of the Strait of Hormuz has driven up fuel prices and put pressure on Trump to end a war that is unpopular at home ahead of the November midterm elections that will decide ‌control of the U.S. Congress.

Trump told Fox News that the midterms were not impacting his strategy on Iran.

“Midterms have nothing to do with my thinking,” he said.

Earlier on Monday, Trump posted on his Truth Social platform: “The number one Goal is, and always will be, that Iran cannot have, in any way, shape, or form, a Nuclear Weapon,” repeating one of his stated rationales for the war.

(Reporting by Katharine Jackson; editing by Michelle Nichols and Mark Porter)

By Parisa Hafezi DUBAI, Aug 17 (Reuters) – Even as

By Parisa Hafezi
DUBAI, Aug 17 (Reuters) – Even as Iran projects resilience in the war with the United States, its leaders are worried that a threat of more economic punishment by Donald Trump could increase hardships, reignite unrest and further erode the Islamic Republic’s legitimacy.

The U.S. president vowed on Friday to hit Iran hard economically, a day after Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Washington would impose measures on Tehran that have “never been seen” as early as next week. Washington has not said what those measures will entail.

For all the bravado of Iran‘s leaders after holding out in nearly six months of conflict and effectively closing the Strait of Hormuz, a vital global oil supply route, they face mounting pressure at home that could result in nationwide unrest, according to three Iranian officials.

The officials, two political insiders, a former Iranian official and a dozen ordinary Iranians spoke to Reuters for this story on condition of anonymity, either for fear of retribution or because they are not authorised to speak to media.

Iran entered the war with high inflation, a weakening currency, energy shortages, sanctions and deep structural weaknesses, and must now contend with damaged infrastructure, disrupted trade, lost production and the cost of rebuilding.

Arshia, a civil engineer, spent a decade working in Iran’s construction industry before the war that began with U.S. and Israeli attacks on February 28 brought projects largely to a standstill.

He is now struggling to find work as projects are delayed or cancelled and costs soar, with little prospect of a rapid recovery.

“I’m worried. If Trump imposes more sanctions, how will ordinary people survive? I don’t want my country to be punished militarily or economically. We’re already struggling,” said the father of two from the central city of Isfahan.

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