Parastoo Ahmadi and her band will also be barred from leaving the country or performing for two years, dampening hopes for a more moderate postwar regime in Iran.

After Iran weaponized the waterway by making it too dangerous for businesses, experts say, the country is now looking to charge fees to vessels seeking to transit the vital water.

After fighting Belgium to a draw for one of Iran’s best World Cup results, the Iranians had a note for their fans and the world.

The blast happened at a key site for natural gas production. The authorities blamed a technical malfunction while operations were being restarted after the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran.

Group of 7 leaders will discuss Artificial Intelligence and global imbalances on Wednesday, even as questions over Iran linger.

Amid the war with Iran, Bahrain has stripped 69 people of their citizenship, including children, accusing them of disloyalty and rendering them stateless.

Despite mutual praise between the two leaders, there has been a series of setbacks to U.S. relations with India since they last met more than a year ago.

There’s an initial deal between the U.S. and Iran. But bringing the global economy back online after months at reduced speed isn’t going to be quick or easy.

A peace framework with Iran, and hope for cooperation with Ukraine, softened the tone on Tuesday at a Group of 7 gathering in France.

At its first game in Los Angeles, the men’s national team drew spectators who weren’t coming for the soccer, but rather to protest the regime in Tehran.

The U.S. Navy will be deploying a new generation of drone-based countermeasures to search the sea floor and surface for any mines Iran laid.

Despite military setbacks during the war, Tehran is presenting a narrative of victory before negotiations with Washington.

Group of 7 meetings once embodied the effort to sustain the global diplomatic order. This year’s gathering, starting on Monday, symbolizes its fragmentation.

Russia and the United States projected their own centralized views onto Ukraine and Iran, analysts said. As a result, the smaller countries trapped larger ones in a costly confrontation.

Iran’s new, more militaristic leaders have already survived the worst that America and Israel can deliver, and seem readier to take risks.

Much of the discussion about artificial intelligence focuses on economic disruption. But it could reshape political life, too.

It was the first U.S. rescue carried out by an autonomous surface vessel and remotely piloted by a human operator, according to a military spokesperson.

The retaliatory U.S. attacks came on Tuesday as Israeli forces pounded southern Lebanon while targeting Hezbollah.

Washington and Tehran would need to defend any potential deal as a win for their side. And each has a leader whose approach to talks is vexing mediators.

As it braces for a possible U.S.-Iranian peace deal, Israel now knows that if it responds forcefully to attacks by Hezbollah, Iran may strike Israel with missiles.

The Defense Department has increased the counterintelligence threat assessment to its highest level, and Israel is believed to have eavesdropped on American negotiations with Iran.

Israel invaded Lebanon and occupied parts of the country to fight Hezbollah, an Iran-backed armed group, but its military offensive has drawn in others.

Videos collected by The Times shows how the Israeli military has deployed a munition that can be extremely harmful over populated areas in Lebanon.

After months of doubts over their participation, Iran’s players have received visas for the United States just days before the World Cup begins.

The seizure of Beaufort in southern Lebanon called up bitter memories in both countries amid a widening Israeli conflict with Hezbollah that seems far from over.

The United States has been involved in many military operations around the world since President Trump returned to office.

The Iranian soccer players, still awaiting visas to the U.S., are practicing in Turkey and making backup plans.

From Iran to Gaza, Eid al-Adha celebrations were muted as war dragged on and shortages of food and fuel roiled the region.

European authorities have grown concerned about a rise in Iranian intelligence activity in Europe in the wake of the U.S.-Israeli war in Iran.

Decision making in the country is guided by a small group of men associated with the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps.

Outmatched militarily, Iran used “triangular coercion” by attacking Gulf states and closing the Strait of Hormuz. It points to a long-term U.S. vulnerability.

Ahmed Shihab-Eldin, a Kuwaiti-American, was held for several weeks after posting about the Iran war. Kuwait does not appear to have commented publicly on his case.

After months of upheaval, many are attempting to get on with their lives while quietly grappling with grief, economic stress and a loss of hope.

Officials are investigating similar attacks across Europe, all claimed by a shadowy Islamist group that may be using low-cost, unsophisticated methods to sow fear in Jewish communities.

The Bank of England and European Central Bank held interest rates steady on Thursday, as officials search for signs of possible longer-term damage and warn of the impact of a prolonged energy shock.

Despite the fragile cease-fire in the Middle East, many Africans say they are bracing for tougher times ahead and making difficult decisions about the future.

Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei said in a statement that Iran would establish “new legal frameworks” for the Strait of Hormuz. He also said his country would retain its nuclear capabilities.

If President Trump flies to China as planned in May, the primary topic will clearly be the rippling economic effects of a war that Beijing has made clear it viewed as unnecessary.

Germany has hugely increased its military spending, aiming to be less dependent on Washington. Its support for U.S. attacks on Iran may also give it leverage.

President Trump ripped up a pact designed to prevent Iran from building a bomb. Getting a better agreement now could prove difficult.

In just eight weeks, much of the global economy has been knocked sideways. America has mostly been spared from the tumult.

In its latest offer delivered on Sunday, Iran proposed opening the key waterway to shipping traffic and lifting the U.S. blockade, while postponing the thornier nuclear issue until later.

Abbas Araghchi, Iran’s foreign minister, met with President Vladimir V. Putin in Moscow. Russia has tried to avoid entanglement in the conflict while remaining a key player in the region.

Despite a cease-fire, Israel and Hezbollah have been trading attacks almost daily.

Not since his mother, Queen Elizabeth II, traveled to Washington after the Suez Crisis has a visit by the British monarch come at such a fraught point in Anglo-American relations.

Cease-fires in Lebanon and Iran are on shaky ground, with military attacks flaring and direct talks between Washington and Tehran to end their war stalled.

An Iranian negotiator returned to Pakistan on Sunday, despite the United States’ abruptly calling off a trip there by its two top negotiators.

Each side is betting it can last longer than the other, analysts say. But there are risks in a stalemate without a deal.

Officials had locked the city down, anticipating talks between U.S. and Iranian delegations. But they didn’t happen. “What did I close my business for?” one business owner asked.

The last-minute scuttling of the trip to Pakistan was the latest sign of how far apart the two sides are on reaching a deal to end the Iran war.

Pope Leo said he has seen the letter from the parents of more than 100 children killed in the strike, which a preliminary inquiry found resulted from a mistake by the U.S. military.

President Trump withdrew from the Obama-era nuclear accord in 2018, saying it was the worst deal ever. But Iran responded with an enrichment spree that haunts the negotiations to this day.

The war has exacerbated Iran’s economic crisis, forcing many to cross the border into Turkey to buy the most basic goods.

President Trump has outsourced much of his diplomacy to others, while Mr. Rubio focuses on his second job as national security adviser.

The Treasury Department also targeted a top independent Chinese refinery that it said was a major buyer of Iranian petroleum.

Iran’s foreign minister has already arrived in the country, state media reported. He was believed to be carrying a written response to a U.S. proposal to end the war.

The U.S.-mediated cease-fire halted an all-out war between Israel and Hezbollah, but their intensifying attacks on each other could put the truce at risk.

An internal Pentagon email, reported by the Reuters news agency, suggested Washington was reviewing options to penalize the two nations for insufficiently supporting the war in Iran.

On his recent trip abroad, Leo XIV made some of his most forthright comments since becoming pope last year, but grew uncomfortable at how that criticism was interpreted.

Ahmed Shihab-Eldin, a Kuwaiti-American journalist, is expected to be released soon, after 52 days in detention, a lawyer for two of his family members said.

The killing of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei ushered in a new form of collective leadership in the country, with more power for the Revolutionary Guards.

The president’s apocalyptic rhetoric clashes with the responsibility of the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff to protect the military’s honor.

A “whole civilization will die tonight,” the president said as he turned up the pressure on Iran’s leaders to reopen the Strait of Hormuz.

The warning did not name specific facilities that had been struck or say whether any damage had been done.

U.S., Iranian, Israeli and other officials offered varying accounts about the state of negotiations between Washington and Tehran.

Senator Ron Johnson said he hoped President Trump was making empty threats, but most in the G.O.P. cheered his warning that Iran’s “whole civilization” would be wiped out.

The vote came hours before an 8 p.m. deadline set by President Trump to reach a deal to reopen the waterway.

U.S. and Israeli forces hit targets in Iran as President Trump threatened to wipe out a “whole civilization.”

Members in both chambers of Congress said the president was threatening war crimes, and a growing number, questioning his mental fitness, called for his removal.

Marjorie Taylor Greene, Tucker Carlson and Senator Ron Johnson were among those pushing back against President Trump’s threats toward Iran.

President Trump and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth’s eagerness to recount details of the rescue of a downed airman followed weeks of silence on the deadly Tomahawk missile strike on an Iranian school.

As the Persian Gulf conflict boosts the oil revenue that finances Moscow’s war against Ukraine, Kyiv’s forces are striking at Russia’s ability to refine and ship its crude.

Global leaders are struggling in their efforts to find a way to end the American-Israeli war on Iran, and they are spooked about what President Trump might do next.

For a second time, President Trump extended the deadline for Iran to fully reopen the Strait of Hormuz.

For centuries, an Omani exclave has been defined by a peculiar duality: rugged isolation and proximity to one of the world’s most important trade routes.

The secretary of state said the United States and Iran were passing messages to each other as he headed to France for a diplomatic meeting of the Group of 7 nations.

Just after stocks ended another bruising day, the president took to social media to promote progress in talks with Iran.

Video footage shows two people in central Israel barely missing being hit by what the Israeli military said was a bomblet from an Iranian cluster bomb. Emergency responders said that five others were treated from the blast. The attack came as President Trump ratcheted up pressure on Iran to agree to a peace deal to stop the war.

The reprieve would ease disruptions in Malaysia’s energy supply, but the prime minister has vowed to make preparations for a more volatile future.

Over 100,000 people have fled to temporary shelters as Israel continues strikes on Lebanon.

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A jumble of emissaries — a friend, a family member, a dove and a hawk — on the Iran crisis reflects President Trump’s improvisational approach.

Iranian tourists with visas will be barred for six months in case they are ‘unable or unlikely’ to go back because of the war, Australian officials said.

Hours before a call between President Trump and India’s prime minister, American officials urged India to focus on shared goals and ignore differences.

European politicians risk angering their voters if they join America’s war. Yet they could also face domestic upheaval if they take no action to reopen shipping routes that Iran has blocked and ease an energy crisis.

From India to Southeast Asia to South Korea, currencies are crumbling as governments race to secure fuel that is priced in American money.

G.O.P. lawmakers who have given the Trump administration wide latitude to wage war with no congressional input are growing frustrated as officials offer little detail about ground troops, cost or timeline.

The fighting continued while conditions for a possible cease-fire were debated.

The 2,000 paratroopers heading to the region may give President Trump more leverage in negotiations, but they also leave him with the option of doubling down on military force.

Their troubles could cascade across Asia because they export a majority of their products.

American airports have become a symbol of government dysfunction, and the spring travel season is just around the corner.

The president has domestic and international political motivations for touting negotiations to end the war. Iran has similar ones to deny discussions.

Syed Asim Munir’s role demonstrates Islamabad’s acute exposure to regional instability and newly found geopolitical relevance.

Iran has severely damaged several American military bases in the Middle East, officials say.

The United States is discussing ways to end hostilities with Iran, even as the Pentagon dispatches more troops.

Stopping Iran’s production of drones is critical to opening the Strait of Hormuz and halting its attacks on Gulf nations. But can it be done?

Examining an image of children near a missile fragment, which landed near a school as several families were sheltering inside it.

The decision by Lebanon’s foreign ministry has heightened fears of internal instability. Hezbollah, the Iranian-backed militant group and political party, was quick to condemn the move.

There may be no country better situated geographically than Iran when it comes to bringing an oil-dependent world to its knees.

Attacks on schools and property in several countries have Jewish communities on edge, amid suspicions that Iran is behind the violence.