The German and French foreign ministries, condemned the seizure as a violation of international law, and called on Iran to immediately release the ships and their crews.

The report says that Iran is continuing its enrichment of uranium to levels higher than the 3.67 percent limit in the deal.

The Revolutionary Guards Navy today seized two Greek tankers for violations in Gulf waters

Syed Fakhar Imam on Tuesday welcomed the Iranian offer to waive off the tariff on all agricultural exports to Iran and said that Pakistan has immense export potential in citrus fruits, rice, mangoes, onion, potatoes, fisheries, and livestock.

The chief of IAEA, Rafel Grossi, was in Iran for talks on the nuclear dispute, days after the IAEA criticised Tehran's lack of cooperation. A point of contention this year has been the limits Iran has imposed on the IAEA's ability to monitor various of its nuclear facilities. It has refused to provide real-time footage from cameras and other surveillance tools that the UN agency has installed in these locations.

Qatar is close to the US and hosts Washington's largest military base in the region, but it also enjoys strong ties with Tehran, with which it shares the world's largest gas field.

Abu Omar Khorasani was taken from Kabul’s Pul-i-Charkhi prison and unceremoniously shot. The first and only person to have been executed since the Taliban gained...