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20.06.2026 13:30 A Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson on Thursday urged NATO to rectify its wrong perception about China and stop instigating confrontation and shifting blame.

20.06.2026 13:30 The number of commercial vessels crossing the Strait of Hormuz reached 25 on June 18, according to various trackers, marking the highest number since mid-April.

20.06.2026 13:30 Iran has issued a compulsory online clearance system requiring all vessels intending to transit the Strait of Hormuz to register their passage requests through a new centralized online system, effective immediately, as per a newly-inked Islamabad memorandum of understanding between Iran and the United States.

20.06.2026 13:30 US President Donald Trump has said that Iran entered negotiations with the United States from a position of weakness and would not receive any money during the talks.

20.06.2026 13:30 US intelligence agencies are warning that Israel is likely to try derailing the final peace deal between the United States and Iran, The Washington Post reported on Friday, citing current and former officials.

20.06.2026 13:30 US intelligence agencies have cautioned the Trump administration that Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu could resort to desperate and provocative measures aimed at undermining the recently signed memorandum of understanding between Iran and the United States.

20.06.2026 13:30 Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baqaei has rejected suggestions that inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency would soon be allowed to return to Iran to resume inspections of nuclear facilities.

20.06.2026 13:30 Iran's chief negotiator, Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf, said on June 19 that upcoming talks with the United States would remain bound by Tehran's "red lines" despite this week's agreement ending the war between the two countries.

20.06.2026 13:30 Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman has dismissed reports claiming that the Islamic Republic will invite the International Atomic Energy Agency to inspect its nuclear sites damaged in two rounds of US-Israeli aggression.

20.06.2026 13:30 Talks between Iran and the United States in Switzerland on a recently inked memorandum of understanding have been postponed, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei says, as Israel keeps up its attacks on Lebanon in violation of the MoU.

20.06.2026 13:30 Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has condemned provocative statements by senior Israeli ministers advocating intensified attacks on Lebanon, warning that the only interest of the genocidal Israeli regime is permanent war.

20.06.2026 13:30 The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps has expressed its readiness to inflict a "much greater historic defeat" on the enemy if it repeats its excessive demands and violates the Iranian nation's rights.

20.06.2026 13:30 Iran's top security body has warned of a predetermined countermeasure in the event of a US violation of the newly signed memorandum of understanding between the two countries.

20.06.2026 13:30 Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf has stated that Iranian officials will treat the directives of the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution, Ayatollah Seyed Mojtaba Khamenei as their guiding light in upcoming negotiations, promising never to let the American-Zionist enemy undermine the rights of the Iranian nation and the Axis of Resistance.

20.06.2026 13:30 UN experts* today welcomed the signing of a 14-point Memorandum of Understanding between the United States and Iran but warned that any agreement that fails to address the human rights situation in Iran will be fundamentally incomplete.