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 ...

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.

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

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,

In the event of a direct military confrontation with one of its likely opponents in the person of Russia, China, the DPRK or Iran, the United States may enter into a war with the coalition. This was stated in a written statement prepared for hearings in the Armed Forces Committee of the Senate of the US Congress by the head of the Northern Command of the US Armed Forces and the head of the Joint Aerospace Defense Command of North

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