Iran has sharply increased its stockpile of a critical raw material for atomic weapons, according to a confidential U.N. report.

Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov met his Iranian counterpart Seyyed Abbas Araghchi in Tehran on Tuesday.

Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said his country won’t agree to direct nuclear talks with the US while President Donald Trump persists with his hard-line policy against the Islamic Republic.

Iran has ‘significantly’ increased production of near weapons-grade uranium enrichment, UN says.

The measures name more than 30 companies, people and vessels both in Iran and elsewhere that underpin the country’s ‘shadow fleet.’

Oil futures finished higher on Monday, with prices finding support after a nearly 3% decline Friday, as the U.S. imposed fresh sanctions on Iran, impacting its crude sector.

Iran has expanded its stockpile of near-weapons grade uranium by more than 50% since December, defying international pressure to rein in its nuclear program. “The significantly increased production and accumulation of high enriched uranium by Iran,

Washington has imposed imposes new sanctions on Iran's shadow oil fleet, aiming to reduce its crude exports to zero.

Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei vowed "resistance" against Israel as Tehran-backed Hezbollah held a funeral Sunday in Beirut for its leader Hassan Nasrallah, killed in an Israeli strike last year.

The report by the Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency said that as of Feb. 8, Iran has 605.8 pounds of uranium enriched up to 60%.

Described as a key move in US President Donald Trump's "maximum pressure campaign" against Iran's oil industry, his administration imposed new sanctions Monday on individuals, entities and tankers in mainland China,