Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said Thursday that a U.S. decision to impose sanctions on Mohammad Javad Zarif showed Washington is afraid of the top diplomat. "They are afraid of our foreign minister's interviews," Rouhani said in a televised speech, referring to a recent round of...

Germany will not participate in a U.S.-led naval mission to secure the Strait of Hormuz, close to Iran, Foreign Minister Heiko Maas said on Wednesday. Stressing that Germany wants to avoid a further escalation of tensions in the region, Maas told reporters on a trip to Warsaw that there was...

The government in sanctions-hit Iran on Wednesday approved a plan to remove zeros from the rial and rename the currency -- something its people have long been doing to simplify transactions. "The cabinet today agreed on a bill to eliminate four zeros from the currency and that 'toman' will...

US President Donald Trump's advisor and son-in-law Jared Kushner met with Jordan's King Abdullah II in Amman on Wednesday, for talks on a controversial US plan for Israeli-Palestinian peace. The two discussed "efforts to solve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict", the royal court said in a...