U.S. President Donald Trump says “someone from within” Iran’s government might be best suited to take power once the U.S.-Israeli war on the country ends.

Israel stepped up airstrikes on Iranian missile launchers and a nuclear research site, and Iran retaliated against Israel and across the Gulf region, disrupting energy supplies and travel.

Iran’s leaders are scrambling to replace Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who ruled the country for 37 years before he was killed in the surprise U.S. and Israeli bombardment.

U.S. President Donald Trump says he’s “not happy” with the latest talks over Iran’s nuclear program but has indicated he'll give the negotiators more time to reach a deal to avert another war in the Middle East.

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has told U.S. House lawmakers that she had no knowledge of Jeffrey Epstein’s or Ghislaine Maxwell’s crimes at the start of two days of depositions that will also include former President Bill Clinton.

Iran and the United States held a third round of nuclear talks in Geneva as Washington sends airships and warships to the Middle East to underscore the U.S. demand that Iran stop enriching uranium.

Iran and the United States held hours of indirect negotiations over Tehran’s nuclear program but walked away without a deal.

Many Iranians are worried as the United States assembles its greatest military firepower in decades in the Middle East and the next round of talks in Geneva get closer.

Oman says the next round of talks between the United States and Iran will be Thursday in Geneva.

President Donald Trump has warned that limited strikes against Iran are possible even as the country’s top diplomat says Tehran expects to have a proposed deal ready in the next few days following nuclear talks with the U.S. Trump's remarks Friday came a few hours after Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Aragchi said on MSNOW’s “Morning Joe” show that his country was planning to finalize a draft deal in “the next two to three days” to then send to Washington.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio plans to travel to Israel next week to update Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on the U.S.-Iran nuclear talks.

Iran has announced the temporary closure of the Strait of Hormuz for live fire military drills.

Iran's top diplomat has held talks with the U.N. nuclear watchdog in Geneva before a second round of negotiations between the U.S. and Iran.

Iranian state media reports that Iran’s top diplomat is traveling to Geneva where the second round of nuclear negotiations with the U.S. will take place.

The Swiss Foreign Ministry says Iran and the United States will hold a second round of talks over Tehran’s nuclear program this week.

Iran marks the 47th anniversary of its 1979 Islamic Revolution as leaders face pressure from the U.S. and anger at home.

President Donald Trump met privately with Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday and says he pushed Israel to back continued U.S. talks with Iran on a nuclear deal.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is heading to Washington to encourage President Donald Trump to expand the scope of high-stakes nuclear talks with Iran.

Iranian security official Ali Larijani is in Oman, the country currently mediating talks between Tehran and Washington over Iran's nuclear program.

Iranian security forces have launched a campaign to arrest figures within the country's reformist movement.

Iran has sentenced Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi to over seven more years in prison.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will meet with U.S. President Donald Trump in Washington on Wednesday about the U.S. talks with Iran.

Iran and the United States have held indirect talks in Oman.

Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has confirmed that Iran and the United States will hold nuclear talks in Oman’s capital, Muscat, on Friday.

U.S. allies and partners in the Middle East again are urging restraint from both the United States and Iran as the Trump administration warns of a possible strike and builds up its military presence in the region.

Iran has reached out to Middle Eastern countries over the threat of a possible U.S. military strike.

Iran has reported its first government-issued death toll from the recent protests, saying 3,117 people were killed.

The Swiss town of Davos hosts the annual meeting of elites from business, government and culture this week.

Hackers have disrupted Iranian state TV to air footage supporting the exiled crown prince.

U.S. and Iranian officials faced each other at the U.N. Security Council, where America’s envoy renewed threats against the Islamic Republic despite President Donald Trump’s efforts to lower the temperature between the two adversaries.

Iranian state media has aired at least 97 confessions from protesters since Dec. 28, according to the Human Rights Activists News Agency.

Minnesota and the Twin Cities are suing the federal government to stop surge by federal immigration authorities.

U.S. President Donald Trump says Iran wants to negotiate with the U.S. after his threat to strike the country over its crackdown on protesters.

U.S. President Donald Trump says Iran has proposed negotiations following his threat to strike the country amid a crackdown on demonstrators.

Iran’s state media has reported that the foreign ministry called a resolution by the U.N. atomic watchdog’s board of governors “anti-Iranian” and threatened unspecified retaliatory actions.

Iran's foreign minister says the country is no longer enriching uranium at any site.

The International Atomic Energy Agency has been unable to verify Iran's near weapons-grade uranium stockpile since Israel struck its nuclear sites in June.

Hamas has released all 20 remaining hostages as part of a ceasefire agreement with Israel, ending two years of conflict in the Gaza Strip.

Iran said 120 Iranians detained in the United States for illegally entering the country will be returned to Iran in the coming days.

The U.N. Security Council on has rejected a last-ditch effort to delay reimposing sanctions on Iran over its nuclear program.

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian took the stage at the U_N_ to blast Israeli and U_S_ attacks in June as inflicting “a grievous blow upon international trust and the very prospect of peace in the region.”.

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has rejected direct negotiations with the United States over his country’s nuclear program.

United Nations sanctions on Iran over its nuclear program have been reimposed.

A U.N. Security Council resolution aimed at halting the reimposition of sanctions on Iran over its nuclear program failed.

European officials have warned Iran that it needs to take specific actions to avoid the return of United Nations sanctions over its nuclear program.

Qatar hosted a summit of Arab and Islamic nations in hopes of presenting a united response to Israel’s attack on Hamas leaders last week in Doha.

An agreement between Tehran and the U.N. nuclear watchdog provides for U.N. inspectors to access all of Iran’s nuclear facilities.

Iran and the International Atomic Energy Agency have signed an agreement in Cairo to open the way for resuming cooperation, including on ways of resuming inspections of Iran’s nuclear facilities.

France, Germany and the United Kingdom have moved to reimpose United Nations sanctions on Iran over its nuclear program.

The head of the U.N.’s nuclear watchdog has warned that the agency is not yet satisfied with Iran’s cooperation with international inspectors.

Iran's foreign minister has spoken with his French, German, and British counterparts, trying to stop the reimposition of U.N. sanctions over Tehran's nuclear program.

The deputy head of the United Nations' nuclear watchdog plans to visit Iran to mend strained relations.

Talks between Iranian and European diplomats in Istanbul have ended with the sides agreeing to meet again to seek to unpick the deadlock over Tehran’s nuclear program.

Iran says it is ready to engage in talks with the United States, but only if Washington takes meaningful steps to rebuild trust.

A top Iranian official has warned that European threats to reimpose sanctions on Iran could trigger the country to withdraw from an international pact that limits the spread of nuclear weapons.

The United Kingdom, France and Germany have agreed to restore tough U.N. sanctions on Iran by the end of August if there has been no concrete progress on a nuclear deal.

Iran’s foreign minister says the country is open to resuming nuclear talks with the U.S. if guaranteed no further attacks.

Iran’s president has ordered the country to suspend its cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency after American airstrikes hit its most-important nuclear facilities.

Iran is assessing the damage and lashing out over the American and Israeli airstrikes that damaged its nuclear sites.

It’s been a week since the U.S. pressed Israel and Iran into a truce, ending a bloody 12-day conflict that had set the Middle East and the world on edge.

Hundreds of thousands of mourners gathered in Tehran for the funeral of top Iranian commanders and scientists killed in a 12-day war with Israel.

U.S. President Donald Trump says he expects Iran to open itself to international inspection to verify it doesn’t restart its nuclear program.

The bombing has quieted in Iran’s 12-day conflict with Israel, but the battle over the future of Tehran is likely to soon begin.

This week’s whipsaw chain of events involving Iran, Israel and the United States that culminated in a surprise ceasefire has raised many questions about how the Trump administration will approach the Middle East going forward.

In a 48-hour whirlwind, President Donald Trump went from elated to indignant to triumphant as the fragile Israel-Iran ceasefire agreement came together, teetered toward collapse and ultimately coalesced.

When the United States joined Israel this weekend in attacking Iran’s nuclear sites, the outrage and condemnation flowed from Russia.

President Donald Trump says Israel is going to “turn around” its jets and stop attacking Iran and their ceasefire “is in effect" after briefly faltering.

A fragile ceasefire between Iran and Israel appeared to be holding after initially faltering.

U.S. President Donald Trump claimed a ceasefire between Iran and Israel was “in effect” on Tuesday, after expressing deep frustration with both sides and accusing them of violating the agreement he brokered.

European nations worked Monday to keep alive diplomatic efforts to curb the Israel-Iran war as the two countries traded strikes following the United States’ weekend attack on Iran’s nuclear program.

U.S. President Donald Trump announced that Israel and Iran had agreed to a “complete and total ceasefire” soon after Iran launched a limited missile attack Monday on a U.S. military base in Qatar, retaliating for the American bombing of its nuclear sites.

The world is grappling with the enormous implications after the United States inserted itself into Israel’s war against Iran.

President Donald Trump says the U.S. military struck three sites in Iran, inserting itself into Israel’s effort to decapitate the country’s nuclear program in a risky gambit to weaken a longtime foe amid Tehran’s threat of reprisals that could spark a wider regional conflict.

Iran’s top diplomat warned Sunday that the U.S. attacks on its nuclear sites “will have everlasting consequences” and that Tehran “reserves all options” to retaliate.

A week into their war, Israel and Iran have exchanged more strikes while diplomatic efforts led by the Europeans took place in Geneva.

A meeting between Iran’s foreign minister and senior European diplomats has yielded hopes of further talks but no indication of any immediate concrete breakthrough, a week after the crisis centered on the Iranian nuclear program erupted into war between Israel and Tehran.

Israel and Iran have struck at one another again a week into their war as President Donald Trump weighs U.S. involvement.

Intense Israeli airstrikes targeted Iran’s capital early Wednesday after it issued a warning about a new area it could target, a day after U_S_ President Donald Trump demanded “unconditional surrender.”.

Israel and Iran have traded missile strikes for a third straight day.

Israel and Iran have traded more missile attacks despite international calls for a halt to the fighting, with neither country showing signs of backing down as the conflict between the regional foes raged for a third day.

The Lebanese militant group Hezbollah was long considered Iran’s first line of defense in case of a war with Israel.

President Donald Trump and other top American officials are urging Iran to forgo retaliation and engage in direct talks following the U.S. attack on three key Iranian nuclear sites.

President Donald Trump is urging Iran to make a nuclear deal now that Israel has launched strikes against the country.

Iranian, Egyptian and U.N. leaders have met to discuss Iran’s nuclear program after the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency said Iran is increasing its stockpile of uranium enriched to near weapons-grade levels.

The Iranian Foreign Minister says he has spoken by phone with the director of the U.N.’s nuclear watchdog agency after a report from the agency said Iran is further increasing its stockpile of uranium enriched to near weapons-grade levels.

A federal trade court on Wednesday blocked President Donald Trump from imposing sweeping tariffs on imports under an emergency-powers law.

Iran has summoned France’s representative in protest after the French foreign minister praised a prize-winning Iranian film as “a gesture of resistance against the Iranian regime’s oppression.”.

Mediator Oman says Iran and the United States made “some but not conclusive progress” in a fifth round of negotiations in Rome over Tehran’s rapidly advancing nuclear program.

Iran’s top diplomat has warned that his country would take “special measures” to defend its nuclear facilities if Israel continues to threaten them, raising the stakes further ahead of a new round of talks with the United States.

Iran and the United States held a fifth round of talks in Rome over Tehran’s rapidly advancing nuclear program.

Iran and the United States will hold a fifth round of talks in Rome on Friday over Tehran’s rapidly advancing nuclear program.

Iran’s top diplomat is insisting that Tehran will never stop enriching uranium.

U.S. President Donald Trump said Friday that Iran has an American proposal over its rapidly advancing nuclear program as negotiations between the two countries go on.

President Donald Trump is on his way to the Middle East, where he had intended to focus on pressing wealthy Gulf nations to pour billions in new investment into the United States.

U.S. President Donald Trump’s visit to the Middle East this week as scheduled won’t include a trip to Israel to discuss the war in Gaza or talks with Iran about its nuclear program.

Iran and the United States have held a fourth round of talks over Tehran’s rapidly advancing nuclear program.

Iran and the United States will meet again this weekend for talks over Tehran’s rapidly advancing nuclear program.

President Donald Trump says he will make a decision about how the U.S. government will refer to the body of water now commonly known as the Persian Gulf when he visits Arab states next week.

Iran’s foreign minister has held talks with top Pakistani officials to try and mediate in the escalation between Islamabad and New Delhi after last month’s deadly attack on tourists in the Indian-controlled part of Kashmir.

Iran says the next round of negotiations over its rapidly advancing nuclear program it will have with the United States will be in Rome on Saturday.