Languages: English and Farsi The relationship between the United States and Iran has ... a desire to avoid full-scale war, several developments suggest the risk of direct conflict is rising.

As uranium enrichment remains the key sticking point in US-Iran nuclear negotiations, new proposals from Oman -- including a regional consortium -- are testing the limits of compromise. With no date set for further talks,

Saudi Arabia’s 89-year-old King Salman bin Abdulaziz dispatched his son, Prince Khalid bin Salman, with the warning destined for Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, according to two ...

The Trump administration favours a diplomatic solution with Iran over its nuclear programme, while Israel wants military action.

And it’s serious enough to grab Mr Market’s attention. Sharp inflows into safe havens like gold, yen and swissie, as dollar trauma deepens, isn’t just the market pricing in the new risk-off environment.

Despite being closer than ever to a nuclear bomb, Iran has been severely geopolitically weakened. A soon-to-expire ultimatum from the U.S. and the threat of an Israeli attack make this a dangerous combination of circumstances.

The US has obtained new intelligence suggesting that Israel is making preparations to strike Iranian nuclear facilities, even as the Trump administration has been pursuing a diplomatic deal with Tehran,

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