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The Iranian Foreign Ministry said on Monday it could take up to two months to complete the “process” of releasing five American hostages after President Joe Biden’s reported $6 billion ransom payment.

The Biden administration on Thursday struck a deal with Iran to unfreeze $6 billion in Iranian financial assets, and release a “handful” of Iranian nationals jailed for violating U.S. sanctions, in exchange for five Americans who were taken prisoner by Iran on highly dubious charges of espionage.

Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian arrived in Japan on Monday with a somewhat enigmatic agenda that reportedly includes a meeting with Prime Minister Kishida Fumio.

Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Sunday “there is nothing wrong” with reviving the nuclear deal under President Joe Biden, but “the infrastructure of our nuclear industry should not be touched.”

Current anti-regime protests in Iran are a “revolution in the making,” according to former U.S. Vice President Mike Pence.

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has reportedly discovered traces of uranium enriched to 84% purity in Iran, just below the 90% threshold needed to construct an atomic bomb. Iranian officials denied the report and insisted they have “not made any attempt to enrich above 60%.”

Chinese dictator Xi Jinping and his Iranian counterpart Ebrahim Raisi published a joint statement on Thursday affirming their desire to “boost cooperation in the battle against terrorism,” as well as strengthen commercial and national security ties.

Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian insisted on Saturday that despite public proclamations the Iran nuclear deal is dead, the Biden administration is secretly “in a hurry to reach the agreement,” and the Iranians are getting a bit annoyed with the Biden team’s constant behind-the-scenes pleading.

On Monday’s broadcast of CNN International’s “Connect the World,” State Department Special Envoy for Iran Robert Malley responded to questions on how the U.S. could justify negotiating a nuclear deal with an Iranian regime that is murdering its own people

During an interview with ABC on Monday, Iranian journalist and activist Masih Alinejad said that despite attempts to kidnap or kill her, she’s not in fear for her life, she’s afraid that, despite Iran’s actions, “the Biden administration [wants] to keep

On Tuesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “Situation Room,” White House NSC Coordinator for Strategic Communications John Kirby stated that “for those that are worried about sanctions relief coming immediately, with respect to the JCPOA, for the Iranian regime,” as they’re brutalizing

The Iran nuclear deal appears all but dead this week, with everyone from the Biden administration to European diplomats denouncing Iran for making outrageous demands and refusing to cooperate with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).

U.S. representatives told the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) on Tuesday that Iran is not cooperating with the Biden administration’s reckless effort to revive former president Barack Obama’s nuclear deal, formally known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). This glum assessment was the latest of many signs that the Iran nuclear deal might dead, at least until after the U.S. midterm elections.

U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) announced on Monday that two B-52H Stratofortress nuclear-capable bombers flew across the Middle East on Sunday in a Bomber Task Force (BTF) mission that included fighter escort planes from the United Kingdom, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and briefly Israel.

The government of Iran issued a formal response to a draft text for a renewed nuclear agreement between Tehran and the United States, among other parties, on Friday that anonymous U.S. officials dismissed as “not constructive,” “not all all encouraging,” and “backwards.”

Radical Islamist President of Iran Ebrahim Raisi declared his country “invincible” in a threatening military rant on Thursday preceded by his top diplomat claiming the rogue regime was still “closely studying” a proposal to revive the doomed 2015 nuclear energy deal with Europe and the United States.

Russia took delivery on its first shipment of Iran-built drones two weeks ago, and is reportedly encountering serious technical issues with the weapons as it tries to deploy them against Ukraine.

Following reports of a looming U.S. return to the Iran nuclear deal, Rep. Mike Waltz (R-FL) panned the Biden administration for its “beyond insane” negotiations with the Islamic Republic, calling instead to reinstitute the “maximum pressure campaign that was working under President Trump.”

Iranian officials said on Sunday they are “reviewing” the Biden administration’s latest proposals for reviving former President Barack Obama’s 2015 nuclear deal, even as hardline Islamist President Ebrahim Raisi made a mockery of the negotiations by insisting nuclear technology “cannot be taken from us in any way.”

Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian said on Friday that “negotiations on saving the JCPOA and lifting the sanctions on Iran have entered the closing stages,” as reported by Iran’s state Tasnim news agency. 

The ranking Republican of the House Armed Services Committee, Rep. Mike Rogers (R-AL), criticized the Biden administration for reportedly being close to reviving the Iran nuclear deal on the heels of an attack by Iran-backed militants that injured three U.S. servicemembers in Syria.

The Iranian military held two days of very aggressive armed drone exercises on Wednesday and Thursday, even as the regime ostentatiously “reviewed” President Joe Biden’s desperate bid to revive the Obama nuclear deal – and signaled Biden is making concessions too slowly for Tehran’s taste.

President Joe Biden is making progress on negotiations with Iran to revive the nuclear deal previously shattered by former President Donald Trump.

Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-WI) slammed the Biden administration’s willingness to grant the Islamic theocracy a “blank check” to fund their growing terrorist activities.

Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) took steps this week to restore diplomatic relations with Iran, a tacit acknowledgment that President Joe Biden’s reckless determination to restore the Iran nuclear deal will make Tehran vastly more rich and powerful, not to mention bringing it closer to deploying a nuclear umbrella.

During a Wednesday interview on FNC’s “Fox & Friends,” former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu took President Joe Biden to task over the White House’s plan to reenter the Iran nuclear deal.

On Tuesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “The Story,” White House National Security Council Coordinator for Strategic Communications John Kirby said that when the United States was in the Iran nuclear deal, “Iran was the one that was isolating itself

During an interview aired on Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” U.S. Special Representative for Iran Robert Malley, the chief negotiator in talks on the Iran nuclear deal said that if a deal is reached, Iran would gain access to assets and would be

On Wednesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Hallie Jackson Reports,” NBC News Chief Washington Correspondent and Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent and MSNBC host Andrea Mitchell said that there was “friction” between the State Department, “which has been trying to resurrect” the Iran

The “fantasy” of returning to the Obama-led nuclear deal with Iran is both “unrealistic” and “unproductive,” according to Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) who slammed the Islamic theocracy for oppressing its citizens, terrorizing countries, and undermining the “stability of the entire region,” while claiming the “overwhelming majority of Iranians have always opposed the violent tactics, extrajudicial killings and nuclear ambitions of the leaders in Tehran.”

Russian President Vladimir Putin landed in Iran on Tuesday for a meeting with Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. It was Putin’s first foray beyond former Soviet Union territory since he launched his invasion of Ukraine in February.

Wednesday on FNC’s “Fox & Friends,” Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) weighed in on President Joe Biden’s trip to the Middle East in which the president is expected to negotiate the Iran nuclear deal and meet with Saudi Arabia.

Rep. Scott Perry (R-PA), Chairman of the House Freedom Caucus, slammed Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) for “appeasing terrorists” and putting Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) — which “poses a real and immediate threat” to the world — before Americans in uniform “that would sacrifice their lives” for the United States, the Constitution, and our freedoms.

During an interview aired on Tuesday’s “PBS NewsHour,” Secretary of State Antony Blinken stated that Iran turning off cameras monitoring its nuclear activity means that getting back into the Iran nuclear deal, which “we spent a lot of time with

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) – Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei acknowledged Saturday that Iran took the oil from two Greek tankers last month in helicopter-launched raids in the Persian Gulf.

Iran’s stockpile of enriched uranium has swelled to more than 18 times the limit stipulated in the Obama-led nuclear deal, the UN nuclear watchdog said Monday.