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30.05.2026 17:00 "Today, the United States is dismantling a sophisticated Iranian network that impersonated and defrauded American businesses to obtain sensitive technology for the Iranian regime's military."

30.05.2026 17:00 Today, as part of Economic Fury, and in coordination with the U.S. Department of Commerce and Federal Bureau of Investigation's Los Angeles Field Office, the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control took action against an Iran-based procurement network that impersonated and defrauded U.S. companies in order to procure restricted goods for Iran's Ministry of Defense and Armed Forces Logistics and other sanctioned Iranian end users. MODAFL is responsible for research, development, and manufacturing across Iran's defense enterprise.

30.05.2026 17:00 US President Donald Trump has concluded a White House Situation Room meeting on a possible agreement with Iran aimed at extending a cease-fire and advancing negotiations over Tehran's nuclear program.

30.05.2026 17:00 The US and Iran still need to work out several sticking points before an agreement on the war can be reached, BBC reported citing Vice-President JD Vance.

30.05.2026 17:00 US President Donald Trump is seeking to construct a misleading image of victory in his illegal war against Iran, according to a report, which dismissed his recent remarks on a potential agreement as "a distortion of reality."

30.05.2026 17:00 Reports from within Iran have suggested that the Iranian authorities have not agreed to some elements of a deal with Washington mentioned by US President Donald Trump in a social media post.

30.05.2026 17:00 Iran's parliament speaker, Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf, has laid out a blunt negotiating philosophy that frames any diplomatic agreement with the United States as a temporary cease-fire rather than a lasting resolution.

30.05.2026 17:00 Iranian officials on Friday said the exchange of messages with Washington continues to end the war of aggression, rejecting the US president's premature claims of a breakthrough.

30.05.2026 17:00 The Iranian authority controlling the Strait of Hormuz in the Persian Gulf has condemned the United States' sanctions targeting the body, while asserting that such coercive measures would not help Washington gain control of the strategic waterway.

30.05.2026 17:00 Former chief commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps , Mohsen Rezaei, has emphasized that the Islamic Republic of Iran stands as a formidable obstacle to US and Israeli objectives, particularly their attempts to redraw the map of West Asia.

30.05.2026 17:00 Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman said Friday that message exchanges with Washington continue, but no final understanding has been reached, dismissing any notion that Tehran takes orders from abroad.

30.05.2026 17:00 Iran's top negotiator in talks with the United States Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf reiterates Tehran's lack of trust in the opposite side, saying the Islamic Republic gains concessions not through negotiations, but through missiles.

30.05.2026 17:00 Iran's final agreement with the United States depends on Washington abandoning excessive demands and contradictory actions, the Iranian Foreign Ministry said on Friday, citing the country's top diplomat, Abbas Araghchi.

30.05.2026 17:00 The heads of four major global economic organizations have issued a joint statement warning that oil reserves are being depleted "at a record pace" amid ongoing supply disruptions due to the near-total closure of the Strait of Hormuz.

30.05.2026 17:00 As US President Donald Trump concluded a high-stakes Situation Room meeting on a possible Iran agreement, major questions remained open: Iran's uranium enrichment, the fate of its nuclear stockpile, sanctions relief, and the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz.