The Russian foreign ministry has called on the US embassy in Moscow to lift the diplomatic immunity of three of its staff suspected of stealing personal belongings from a Russian citizen.

China rejects a US request to cut oil imports from Iran, urging Washington to end its unilateral sanctions.

Iran says the US needs to drop its addiction to sanctions and violations of its commitments under the JCPOA.

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi hold talks with Singaporean leader Lee Hsien Loong, Deputy Prime Minister Heng Swee Keat and Foreign Affairs Minister Vivian Balakrishnan on his two-day visit to Singapore.

Iran's ex-FM says the US should abandon its illegal use of force and its fallacy of ‘all options on the table.’

Iran’s president says the US must be held accountable for gross human rights violations in war-stricken Afghanistan.

North Korea shows off a submarine-borne ballistic missile that Pyongyang has hailed as the world’s most potent weapon, less than a week before Biden starts his presidency.

President Rouhani says the next US administration will abandon its sanctions against the Iranian people.

An Iranian religious studies university blasts the US for bringing it under sanctions as part of Washington’s policy of “maximum pressure."

The US Treasury Department adds the names of Iran’s ambassador to Yemen and an Islamic Republic-headquartered religious studies university to the list of its sanctions.