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Iran last week responded to the EU’s ‘final’ text with ‘additional views and considerations’ on a new nuclear accord.

Iran accused the United States on Monday of "procrastinating" in indirect talks aimed at reinstating Tehran's 2015 nuclear deal, and said a prisoner swap with Washington was not linked to the negotiations. After 16 months of fitful, indirect US-Iranian talks, with European Union officials shuttling between the sides, a senior…

Foreign ministry spokesperson blames author and supporters after stabbing that left him with ‘life-changing’ injuries

An Iranian government official denied that Tehran was involved in the assault on author Sir Salman Rushdie.

An Iranian government official has denied that Tehran was involved in the assault on Salman Rushdie, preferring to blame the attack on the author himself and his supporters.

Salman Rushdie’s “road to recovery has begun” after he was stabbed repeatedly at a public appearance, while Iran denies involvement in the attack on the author.

Iran on Monday denied any link with the attacker who stabbed author Salman Rushdie in its first official response to the attack. Iran's foreign ministry spokesman instead said the author of "The Satanic Verses" and his supporters were the only ones to blame for Friday's attack.

Iran has denied any involvement in the New York stabbing of Salman Rushdie, arguing that only the author and his supporters are to be blamed for the attack.

AN IRANIAN government official has denied that Tehran had any involvement in the attack on author Sir Salman Rushdie.