Iran does not want "new tensions" in the Middle East, President Hassan Rouhani said Thursday in a telephone call with German Chancellor Angela Merkel. "Iran has always sought to reduce tensions in the region, trying to strengthen security and stability," Rouhani said,...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has told Iran's president that she supports maintaining a big-power nuclear accord, following the withdrawal of the United States, as long as Tehran upholds its side of the deal, her office said Thursday. In a telephone call with Hassan Rouhani, Merkel...

Just as U.S. President Donald Trump reached one hand out to North Korea, he yanked the other back from Iran. The president’s dramatic withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal was the most vivid illustration to date of how his impulses and capricious instincts tend to pull him in paradoxical...

French President Emmanuel Macron and Iran's Hassan Rouhani agreed Wednesday during a phone call to work toward "the continued implementation of the nuclear deal" despite the U.S. decision to withdraw from the agreement, the French presidency said. "The French and Iranian presidents...