Iran will not succumb to pressure and sanctions imposed by Washington, the Islamic Republic's top diplomat said on Tuesday after meeting his Russian counterpart, days after Moscow held initial talks with the U.

The United States has imposed tough new sanctions on Iran, aiming to cut off the country’s oil revenue and prevent it from developing nuclear weapons. The State Department announced these sanctions as part of a policy called “maximum pressure,

The Trump administration announced new sanctions aimed at Iran‘s “shadow fleet” of oil tankers that it said are used to fund destabilizing activities around the world. The sanctions, imposed Monday by the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control and the State Department,

The United States imposed a fresh round of sanctions targeting Iran's oil industry on Monday, hitting more than 30 brokers, tanker operators, and shipping companies for their role in selling and transporting Iranian petroleum,

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi on Tuesday dismissed the possibility of direct negotiations with the United States on his country's nuclear programme. "There will be no possibility of direct talks between us and the United States on the nuclear issue as long as the maximum pressure is applied in this way,