Iran has started mass-producing its locally designed Kowsar fighter plane, state television reported on Saturday. "Soon the needed number of this plane will be produced and put at the service of the Air Force," Defence Minister Amir Hatami said at a ceremony launching the plane's production, which was shown on television.

Iran starts mass-producing local fighter jet: State TV

3 dead, including shooter, at Florida yoga studio: Police A gunman has killed two people and wounded five others at a yoga studio in Florida's capital before killing himself, officials said.

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US President Donald Trump on Friday said that he is open to a new comprehensive deal with Iran, saying that till then the toughest-ever sanctions on the Middle-East country that kicks off on Monday would continue.

Donald Trump says he is open to new deal with Iran

The United States will add 700 individuals and entities to its Iran blacklist and pressure the global SWIFT banking network to cut off Tehran when expanded sanctions are put in place next week.

'Sanctions are Coming', tweets Trump as US reimposes all sanctions on Iran

The US government has agreed to let eight countries, including close allies South Korea and Japan, as well as India, keep buying Iranian oil after it reimposes sanctions on Tehran next week, Bloomberg cited a US official as saying.

US to give Iran oil sanctions waiver to eight countries, including India, South Korea & Japan: Report

Iran President Hassan Rouhani on Wednesday said his country had no fear of the new US sanction which was due to take effect in the coming days. "November 4 sees a new injustice from the Americans, the people should know with certainty that the government has no fear of American threats", Rohani said ahead of the imposition of new US sanctions.

Iran has no fear over new US sanctions: President Hassan Rouhani

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US national security adviser John Bolton said on Wednesday the Trump administration wants sanctions on Iran's crude exports to strain Tehran, but does not want to harm countries that depend on the oil.

US doesn't want to harm friends, allies with Iran sanctions: John Bolton

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has called for an end to the fighting in Yemen. Pompeo said missile strikes by the Iran-allied Houthi rebels against Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates should stop, and that the Saudi-led coalition must stop air strikes in all populated areas.

After Khashoggi killing, US calls for end to fighting in Yemen

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Shortly after US President Donald Trump announced in May he would reimpose sanctions on Iran, the State Department began telling countries around the world the clock was ticking for them to cut oil purchases from the Islamic Republic to zero.

Trump's Iran sanctions resolve faces test from oil-thirsty China, India

Iran's parliament approved a government economic reshuffle on Saturday, days before new US sanctions on Tehran's oil exports take effect, after President Hassan Rouhani said Washington was isolated among its allies in its confrontation with Iran.

Rouhani reshuffles economic team, says US isolated against Iran

The killing of 11 people in the deadliest anti-Semitic attack in recent United States history has sparked a flood of international condemnation and warnings about the rise of hate speech.

Grief and alarm in world as reaction to deadly US synagogue shooting

The Israeli army on Saturday accused the Syrian government and Iran of ordering Palestinian militants in Gaza. Dozens of rockets were fired into southern Israel and Israel also threatened to retaliate whatever it chose.

Israel accuses Syria, Iran of ordering Palestinian militants in Gaza

Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi's "heinous murder" would have been unthinkable "without US backing," Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said on Wednesday. "I don't think that any country would dare do such a thing without US backing," Rouhani said in remarks to cabinet broadcast on state television.

Khashoggi murder unthinkable 'without US backing': Iran President Hassan Rouhani

Oil prices on Wednesday clawed back a fraction of their hefty losses the day before that came after Saudi Arabia said it would make up for supply disruptions from US sanctions starting next month on Iran's petroleum exports.

Oil edges back from big slump as Iran sanctions return to focus

A global financial watchdog on Friday warned Iran to clamp down on terrorism financing by February or face a deeper squeeze on its sanctions-hit economy. The Islamic republic, already hurt by a resumption of US sanctions over its past nuclear programme, this month approved one bill to help meet demands imposed by the international Financial Action Task Force (FATF).

Iran gets February deadline to fix terror financing: Watchdog

Pakistan on Wednesday informed Iran that it had launched "active" efforts to locate 11 Iranian security personnel, including Revolutionary Guards intelligence officers, who were abducted near the countries' shared border.

Pakistan says 'active' efforts underway to recover Iran troops

Twitter has published an archive of 10 million tweets and media it says are from accounts it believes are potentially the product of Russian and Iranian state-backed information operations on the microblogging site.

Twitter makes public Russia, Iran meddling tweet trove

Iran's Revolutionary Guards said on Tuesday they had killed the "mastermind" behind an attack on a military parade in the Iranian city of Ahvaz last month which left 25 people dead, nearly half of them members of the Guards.

'Mastermind' behind attack on military parade arrested: Iran

By Giorgio Cafiero On October 1, Iran carried out six missile strikes against Islamic State (IS) targets in Abu Kamal, situated in eastern Syria near the Iraqi border.

Iran delivers powerful message to US on Syria

Iran called new US sanctions against its paramilitary Basij group an act of "blind vindictiveness" on Wednesday. "America's new sanctions are a clear insult to international and legal mechanisms and a result of the American government's blind vindictiveness against the Iranian nation," said foreign ministry spokesman Bahram Ghasemi.

Iran calls US sanctions on paramilitary force 'blind vindictiveness'

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