Iran`s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has asserted that the United States bears full responsibility for the potential consequences of any act of aggression it could take against Iran, warning that the Islamic Republic would not hesitate to respond decisively...

This grab from a handout footage shows deployment of a nuclear-capable Russian Oreshnik hypersonic missile system for combat duty at an undisclosed location in Belarus on December 30, 2025...

Iran`s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has urged US President Donald Trump to resist pressure from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and reopen negotiations with Tehran over its nuclear program, citing growing regional support for diplomacy...

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has issued a firm rebuttal to Donald Trump`s latest threat of renewed strikes against the country, vowing that any further aggression will be met with a crushing and "regret-inducing" response...

Mohammad Eslami, the head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI), speaks to reporters after a cabinet session in Tehran...

Iranian Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the UN Amir Saeed Iravani has stressed that the Islamic Republic will not relinquish its right to uranium enrichment under the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT)...

Tokyo Electric Power Company`s Kashiwazaki Kariwa nuclear power plant, one of the world`s largest nuclear facilities, in Niigata prefecture, Japan, on Sunday...

Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei speaks at his weekly press conference in Tehran...

This file photo shows a view of Iran`s Foreign Ministry building in the capital, Tehran...

US President Donald Trump and Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu reach to shake hands at a joint press conference in the State Dining Room at the White House in Washington, D...

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian speaks in a meeting with high-profile Iranian figures and political elites on December 17, 2025...

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has reiterated Iran`s commitment to defending its legal nuclear rights under the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), saying Tehran`s nuclear policies have remained within the international legal framework...

Iran`s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi gives an interview to Japan`s Kyodo News Agency in Tehran on December 6, 2025...

Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi of Iran addresses the 30th Conference of States Parties to the Chemical Weapons Convention at OPCW headquarters in The Hague, November 25, 2025...

File photo of the building hosting Iran`s Foreign Ministry in the capital Tehran Iran`s Foreign Ministry has strongly condemned the anti-Iranian resolution adopted by the Board of Governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), calling it an "illegal and unjustified" measure...

Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered officials on Wednesday to submit proposals for a possible resumption of nuclear tests in response to President Donald Trump`s statements last week that appeared to suggest the U...

With the collapse of the Soviet , the illusion rose that the era of nuclear competitions was declining and the treaties banning the nuclear tests made the cornerstone to a more secure order...

Photo published by Iran`s Presidency shows President Masoud Pezeshkian (C) along with Head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) Mohammad Eslami (R) during a tour of AEOI facilities in Tehran on November 2, 2025...

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi Iran`s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi says Tehran is open to holding talks on its nuclear program but refuses to negotiate over its missile capabilities...

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi addresses foreign ambassadors to Iran, in Tehran on October 5, 2025...

President Donald Trump`s comments Thursday suggesting the United States will restart its testing of nuclear weapons upends decades of American policy in regards to the bomb, but come as Washington`s rivals have been expanding and testing their nuclear-capable arsenals...

The United States will share closely held technology to allow South Korea to build a nuclear-powered submarine, President Donald Trump said on social media Thursday after meeting with the country`s president...

US President Donald Trump has instructed the country`s Department of War to immediately resume testing nuclear weapons in a decision that has alarmed disarmament advocates and global security experts...

Sardines and mackerels are seen washed up on a beach in Hakodate, Hokkaido, northern Japan, on December 7, 2023...

The file photo shared by US Central Command on social media appears to show a guided-missile submarine in the Suez Canal, Egypt...

Russian President Vladimir Putin chairs a meeting with members of the Security Council via video link at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, October 27, 2023...

The satellite image, released by the website of International Panel on Fissile Material on February 18, 2021, shows an aerial view of Israel’s Dimona nuclear facility...

North Korea`s UN Ambassador Kim Song addresses attendees during a news conference at UN headquarters in New York, USA...

The file photo shows Saudi Energy Minister Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman addressing an IAEA General Assembly meeting in Vienna...

Israeli prime minister Naftali Bennett (L) and US President Joe Biden meets in the Oval Office at the White House in August 2021...

In this file photo, taken on January 20, 2021, outgoing US President Donald Trump addresses guests at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland...

The file photo shows the reactor building of the Bushehr nuclear power plant just outside the southern city of Bushehr, Iran...

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un attends a meeting of the politburo of the ruling Workers’ Party in Pyongyang, North Korea, on January 19, 2022, in this photo released by North Korea’s Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on January 20, 2022...

Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service (EEAS) Enrique Mora and Iran’s chief nuclear negotiator Ali Bagheri Kani wait for the start of a meeting of the JCPOA Joint Commission in Vienna, Austria, on November 29, 2021...

Israel’s Jerusalem Post newspaper says its website has been hacked, with a photo of a model Dimona nuclear facility appearing to be blown up on the homepage...

The Coburg Palais, the venue of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA)’s Joint Commission meeting, is pictured in Vienna, on November 29, 2021...

Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh The Iranian Foreign Ministry has lambasted the United Kingdom for a meddlesome statement issued by the Foreign Office on Iran’s defensive capabilities, stressing that Tehran acts within international laws and regulations and in accordance with the Islamic Republic’s defense needs...

US Special Envoy for Iran Rob Malley (left), White House National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan (center) and Secretary of State Antony Blinken...

FILE PHOTO. A mobile Russian Topol-M intercontinental ballistic missile launcher...

Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Rafael Grossi presents a surveillance camera at the IAEA’s headquarters in Vienna, Austria, on December 17, 2021...

File photo shows an Indian nuclear-capable ballistic missile...

Russian Yars RS-24 intercontinental ballistic missile systems are pictured during the Victory Day parade in Moscow, Russia...

Former US president Donald Trump shows a signed presidential memorandum reinstating anti-Iran sanctions on May 8, 2018...

The spokesman for the Iranian Foreign Ministry, Saeed Khatibzadeh, speaks at a press briefing in Tehran, Iran, on November 29, 2021...

Iran’s Ambassador to the United Nations Majid Takht-Ravanchi Iran’s UN ambassador has denounced Israel’s clandestine nuclear program as real threat to the Middle East, saying the regime must join the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) in the first step towards the realization of a region free of weapons of mass destruction (WMDs)...

© AP Photo / US Air Force / Roslyn Ward American nuclear-capable bombers have flown dozens of sorties across Eastern Europe in the past few weeks as part of drills designed to probe Russian readiness in case of an atomic war, Russia’s defense minister has claimed...

Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Rafael Grossi (R) attends a joint press conference with the head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI), Mohammad Eslami, in Tehran, on November 23, 2021...

Saudi Arabia’s former intelligence chief prince Turki al-Faisal (Via Getty Images) Saudi Arabia’s former intelligence chief prince Turki al-Faisal says the kingdom should acquire the knowledge to develop a nuclear bomb in order to defend itself, calling on the US to impose more sanctions on Iran instead of trying to restore the 2015 Iran nuclear agreement, which would remove the existing sanctions on Tehran...

An F-35 fighter is seen at Volkel Air Base in the Netherlands...

This file photo shows an unmanned combat ground vehicle Uran-9 carried by a truck during the Victory Day military parade in Moscow...