Oman presented Iran with a plan backed by Gulf states to manage the Strait of Hormuz, including collecting voluntary fees for using it, a Gulf source and a Western diplomat told Reuters on Tuesday. The plan could serve as a basis to end the disruption to trade through the strait caused by the US-Israeli war on Iran. President Donald Trump, who abruptly called off a two-week US bombing campaign over the weekend in his latest strategic U-turn, said there were “good talks” under way with Iran but...
Millions in sanctions-hit country keep absorbing economic shockwaves, with analysts saying trend looks set to continue.
The US Senate will vote Tuesday on Russian sanctions, days after Ukraine attacked an Iranian vessel in the Caspian Sea.
US President Donald Trump says talks with Iran are continuing during a pause in US military strikes
Speaking in Riyadh, Yemen's internationally recognised government warns global complacency has emboldened the Houthis.
The US president says "there is a good chance that something could happen", as Iran denies direct talks are taking place.
Mediators from Qatar and Pakistan work to restart ceasefire talks amid fragile pause in hostilities.
Unreleased documentary footage shows late US Senator Lindsey Graham celebrating the war on Iran.
Marc Lamont Hill speaks with sociologist Ali Kadivar on what history shows about the risk of a US forever war in Iran.
Drones launched at Saudi, Jordan and Iraq suggest Iran, or linked groups, may be testing US as it mulls new strategy.
The US-Iran war has slowed, with both sides giving diplomacy a chance through regional mediators.
Iran has reacted with fury to the assault on the vessel, with Tehran's foreign minister saying it "cannot go unanswered".
Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesperson, Esmaeil Baghaei, said on Monday that Iran is not seeking negotiations with US.
Successive Israeli governments have undermined diplomatic efforts and stoked tensions between Washington and Tehran.
Iran and the United States held their fire on Monday, handing Gulf shipping and the oil industry a respite from missile strikes as Donald Trump’s UN envoy said the president was “giving talks some space”. Tehran said it had halted retaliatory attacks against Washington’s allies in the Middle East, and US ambassador to the United Nations Mike Waltz told Fox News Sunday that, while forces remained “locked and loaded”, Trump would give negotiations “a little bit of room”. Fighting over the...
Tit-for-tat strikes have halted in the Middle East even as the scope of the US-Israel war on Iran widens.
The US says attacks on Iran have been halted to give "talks some space", raising hopes of a resolution to the conflict.
Abbas Araghchi says the Ukrainian attack on the Iranian vessel in the Caspian Sea 'cannot go unanswered'.
The US has paused its two-week bombing campaign against Iran, prompting Tehran to suspend its retaliatory attacks.
Iran's supreme leader calls for 'absolute, unconditional termination' of Israel's attacks on Lebanon.
The relative calm comes amid reports of renewed efforts to restore diplomatic talks.
Mediation efforts continue but uncertainty remains as risks of further disruptions in international waterways grow.
Israel instigated the war on Iran and yet it has borne few of its costs.
Iran says it has stopped retaliatory operations in the Gulf, but warns the war could expand if US strikes continue.
Anti-war activists have protested outside a UK airbase over US forces using it to bomb Iran
Iran condemns what it calls a 'hostile and criminal' Ukrainian attack on commercial vessel. How will it affect the war?
Iran said on Sunday it had made progress in talks with Oman on management of the Strait of Hormuz, the strategic waterway crucial for oil and gas trade that both countries border. The latest talks come after the United States resumed attacks on Iran in an effort to end Tehran’s control of the strait, following a June memorandum of understanding aimed at ending the war that had briefly eased tensions. Foreign ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baqaei said several rounds of negotiations were held in...
Iran has condemned a Ukrainian attack on one of its commercial vessels.
Tehran says the Ukranian attack killed at least one sailor and wounded another.
Iran accuses Ukraine of attacking a Caspian vessel, killing one sailor and injuring another, calling it a criminal act.
Skirmishes between Houthi rebels and Saudi Arabia intensified, as a pause in the nearly two-week run of nightly US strikes on Iran raised fresh questions about President Donald Trump’s strategy in the war. The Houthis, Islamist militants based in Yemen and backed by Iran, said they fired missiles and drones at facilities linked to oil giant Saudi Aramco in the Red Sea port towns of Jizan and Yanbu. There was no immediate confirmation from the Saudi government or Aramco. Saudi authorities briefly...
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Gov't accuses IRIB of 'censorship' after parts of president's speech not aired; station rejects 'improper attributions'.
Iran reports no new US strikes overnight into Saturday for the first time in two weeks.
US missiles struck targets across Iran on Friday and President Donald Trump vowed “major military punishment” for Tehran and its Houthi allies in Yemen, though he once again left open the door to a diplomatic deal with Iran. Separately, the US military said it had fired on and disabled a tanker ship after it was “repeatedly warned” and “didn’t comply” with the American blockade on Iranian ports. Two weeks after the collapse of an interim truce meant to end the war, Iranian armed forces...
US military says it disabled a tanker that was attempting to evade the American blockade on Iranian ports.
US President Donald Trump says Washington remains ‘locked and loaded’ while pursuing diplomatic talks with Tehran.
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said Iran does not fear threats or 'succumb to pressures'.
Omani delegation in Iran to discuss managing traffic in the strait, which has become the main focus of the US conflict.
Visit will be Netanyahu's seventh to White House, underscoring US commitment during war with Iran, genocide in Gaza.
It comes as Iran condemned the US plan to use frozen Iranian assets to pay for war damages.
The US military says it has completed its 13th night of strikes against Iran.
The number of tanker crossings in the Strait of Hormuz dropped to lowest levels in two months on Thursday.
President Trump says damages will be paid for by Iranian money that the US has 'in its possession, and controls'.
Al Jazeera’s Tohid Asadi reports from Tehran as the US launches strikes for the 13th consecutive night.
Ted Lieu challenges UN Ambassador Mike Waltz after playing Al Jazeera footage of Iranian strikes in Jordan.
Trump says he is considering a ‘massive attack’, as Iran's Araghchi says 'mindless aggression' won't help a deal.
America's war on Iran has cost the US nearly $110 billion. Now, the Trump administration wants another $67 billion.
The US president's threat comes after another day of Iranian attacks on Bahrain, Kuwait and Jordan.
Ali al-Zaidi will hold talks with senior Iranian officials on cooperation, shared interests and security.
US President Donald Trump promised on Thursday “major military punishment” for Iran and its Houthi allies, after the Yemeni fighters struck two Saudi oil tankers in the Red Sea, extending the Middle East war to a second major shipping chokepoint. Fears that disruption could widen further to block another sea route sent global oil prices surging in one of the steepest rises of the war. Brent crude rose more than 6 per cent, breaking through US$100 a barrel for the first time since May. Two weeks...
The Senate was also expected to vote on War Powers resolution, in largely symbolic move attempting to reign in Trump.
The future of diplomacy between the US and Iran depends on giving mediators the backing needed to make agreements stick.
Reports of Iran targeting sites belonging to the US's CIA first emerged in the early days of the Iran war.
After a truce, the US has returned to war with Iran. Alex Gatopoulos looks at what’s different this time
Iraqi Prime Minister Ali al-Zaid is visiting Tehran after a high-profile meeting with US President Donald Trump.
Rubio says US policy on Iran is ‘a head for an eye’
Secretary of state says US has 'a head for an eye' policy as strikes hit Iran for a 12th straight night.
With the Houthi naval blockade, shipping disruptions now impact the Bab al-Mandeb strait in addition to Hormuz.
Renewed fighting between the US and Iran has overshadowed the ASEAN gathering in Manila.
Strikes from the US on Iran are raining down for the 12th night in a row.
Nearly five months on, grief is still raw as a teacher and a mother recall the horror of the attack in Minab.
The Houthi attacks would be the first in the Red Sea since the Iran-backed group announced a "maritime embargo" against Saudi Arabia.
Bill to fund war on Iran and a handful of Trump priorities passes largely along party lines, faces Senate uncertainty.
The Iranian-aligned Houthis on Thursday claimed military strikes on two Saudi oil tankers as part of a naval blockade on Saudi Arabia, further raising the risk of a second chokehold on world oil supplies at the Red Sea in coordination with Iran’s attempt to control the Strait of Hormuz. Meanwhile the US military said on Wednesday it launched a new round of strikes on Iran at President Donald Trump’s direction, marking a 12th successive night of American attacks. The Yemen-based militants, who...
Tehran's chief negotiator says if Iran's 'security is not ensured, no infrastructure will be safe'.
Griffiths: Diplomacy requires US and Iran to accept they have ‘lost‘
US President Trump warned that Iran will ‘pay a big price’ right before he attended a dignified transfer ceremony.
Many cases related to security offences are prosecuted using a law announced after last year's 12-day war with Israel.
Iran activated air defence systems across Tehran on the 11th night of US strikes.
Iranian official says Tehran would retaliate by targeting 'energy facilities in which the United States has interests'.
US President Donald Trump threatened on Wednesday to destroy an Iranian bridge or power plant each time Tehran attacks a vessel in the Strait of Hormuz, escalating Washington’s response as the conflict spread across the region and placed another major shipping route at risk. The warning came hours before Trump was due to attend the return of four US service members killed in Iranian attacks and related operations in Jordan and Iraq. “From this point forward, any time the Islamic Republic of Iran...
The US must rapidly replenish its stockpiles of weapons as the war on Iran rages on.
US Secretary of State say Iran is in ‘a lot of trouble’
Ossoff challenges Hegseth on cost and duration of Iran war
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth tells US senators that the war has cost the US $37.5bn so far.
US Secretary of State says Iranian control over Strait of Hormuz sets 'dangerous precedent', as attacks continue.
Explosions could be heard over Tehran as the US army said it had completed its 11th consecutive day of strikes on Iran.
Iran toll in Hormuz would set 'dangerous precedent' says Rubio
The US military’s 11th consecutive night of strikes extended to Iranian provinces not previously hit.
After US strikes on Iran’s largest nuclear facilities last year, both US President Donald Trump and the White House were adamant that the Middle East nation’s nuclear programme had been destroyed. “Monumental Damage was done to all Nuclear sites in Iran, as shown by satellite images. Obliteration is an accurate term!” Trump wrote on social media. “Iran’s Nuclear Facilities Have Been Obliterated – and Suggestions Otherwise are Fake News,” the White House wrote in a press release. A year later,...
The US president's threat to target a key Iranian nuclear site came ahead of the 11th consecutive night of attacks.
Trump threatens to bomb a suspected Iranian nuclear site called Pickaxe Mountain 'very heavily'.
The cost of the United States’ war in Iran has risen to US$37.5 billion so far, US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth said on Tuesday, as he faced sceptical lawmakers for the first time since heavy bombings resumed to seek urgent funding for the unpopular conflict. With just six months before midterm elections in which US President Donald Trump’s Republicans may face an uphill battle to keep their House of Representatives and Senate majorities, Democrats are riding high in public opinion polls as...
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Latest cost comes as Hegseth and Joint Chiefs Chairman Caine seek a $1.5 trillion budget, including $70bn for Iran war.
Iran has held funerals for 32 children killed in a US strike on a school in Minab, Iran on February 28.
Kuwaitis are rationing electricity after Iranian strikes on power infrastructure are raising fears of outages
With every new round of attacks raising political cost of compromise, analysts warn the window for peace may be closing.
People are facing mounting pressures, including rising living costs, electricity cuts and bombarded infrastructure.
None of the choices facing Iran’s leaders offer a clear path to victory, as the conflict with the US continues.
Southeast Asian countries are highly affected by oil supply shortages caused by Iran war and Strait of Hormuz closure.
Chinese military analysts are urging the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) to rapidly strengthen harbour defences after the United States carried out its first combat strike using unmanned surface vessels (USVs) to destroy an Iranian submarine. US Central Command released footage on July 13 of what it said was the first combat use of American sea drones. Three vessels were shown striking an Iranian base, reportedly destroying one Ghadir-class midget submarine. The Iranian-made submarine has an...
After a one-vote victory, Khalil al-Hayya must reconcile rival currents while preserving Hamas’s independence.
The White House told Al Jazeera that the US would continue its attacks unless Trump decides otherwise.
Iran targeted US radar and air defence installations in the Gulf on Tuesday, warning Washington of “more decisive and powerful” attacks to come as the conflict threatened to widen with a blockade of Saudi ports by Houthi rebels in Yemen. Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said they had attacked and stopped two “non-compliant oil tankers” attempting to transit the Strait of Hormuz, part of an effort to tighten its grip on the vital waterway while the war reignited. Following the deaths of at least three...