The United States has slapped fresh sanctions against Iran, this time targeting drone manufacturers accusing them of producing drones that Russian forces use to attack Ukrainian targets.

A senior Iranian lawmaker says the Majlis (parliament) will not hesitate to give a shocking and stinging response to Europe’s anti-Iran bids’ if it insists on its aggressive and hostile policies.

Here are Press TV's latest topstories, 16:00 GMT on January 23, 2023

Russia on Monday said it was blacklisting 39 British citizens, including Labor Party leader Keir Starmer and ex-PM David Cameron.

Israeli regime officials are reportedly pushing the US government to remove the controversial spyware company NSO Group from the Department of Commerce blacklist.

Iran’s Foreign Ministry has updated its blacklist of senior American officials for their involvement in terrorist activities and gross human rights violations against the Islamic Republic.

Russia says its forces have destroyed an ammunition depot at an air base in central-eastern Ukraine as President Volodymyr Zelensky calls for harsher sanctions against Moscow. 

A senior Iranian diplomat says existing gaps on the remaining issues at the Vienna talks must be closed before the revival of the Iran deal.

United Nations envoys urge the administration of US President Joe Biden to scrap its plan for designating Yemen’s popular Ansarullah movement as a “terrorist group,” warning that the move would worsen a humanitarian catastrophe in the impoverished country.  

The United States has added Israel's NSO Group and Candiru to its trade blacklist after it determined the spyware makers have acted “contrary to the foreign policy and national security interests of the US”.