WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff held more than two hours of talks with an Iranian delegation in Rome on Friday about Tehran's nuclear program and agreed to meet again in the near future, a senior U.S. official said.

Iran’s top diplomat is insisting that Tehran will never stop enriching uranium, further underlining the Islamic Republic’s red line in negotiations with the United States over its rapidly advancing nuclear program.

Iran’s top diplomat has warned that his country would take “special measures” to defend its nuclear facilities if Israel continues to threaten them, raising the stakes further ahead of a new round of

CANNES, France (Reuters) -Iranian filmmaker Saeed Roustaee said on Friday that he was careful in how he shot his Cannes Film Festival entry "Woman and Child", which never shows women without the mandatory hijab, but was still unsure how he would be received when he returned home.

Hedge funds boosted their bullish position on Brent crude by the most since early April as fading prospects for a quick US-Iran nuclear deal raised expectations that the OPEC member’s flows may be curtailed.

Speaking to the media following the conclusion of the fifth round of talks in the Italian capital, Araghchi said Iran presented its "positions and principles" during this round, calling it "one of the most professional so far."