Middle East

Iran's top nuclear negotiator says barriers to the revival of the deal are complicated but not insurmountable as Iranian President Rouhani notes "only a few issues remain."

Iran's top nuclear negotiator says the barriers to the revival of the 2015 deal are complicated but not insurmountable.

Iranian officials deny speculation on social media that the vessel was making its way to Venezuela together with another ship, both of which are believed to function as forward operating bases for the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.

Statement comes amid ongoing tension with the West over its breaches of 2015 nuclear deal, and a day after inspectors said Tehran had failed to explain suspicious findings.

“The economic and financial crisis is likely to rank in the top 10, possibly top 3, most severe crises episodes globally since the mid-nineteenth century," the World Bank says in a new report on Lebanon's financial crisis.

Official involved in process of rebuilding Gaza says without Israeli presence on the ground, there are few effective measures of oversight. Meanwhile, Hamas continues to drop hints about a possible prisoner exchange.

Iran has also failed to explain traces of uranium found at several undeclared sites, a report by the International Atomic Energy Agency shows, possibly setting up a fresh diplomatic clash between Tehran and the West that could derail wider nuclear talks currently underway in Vienna.

"Even if the rationales underpinning Qatar’s foreign policies are pragmatic and geostrategic in nature, generations of teaching such extreme sentiments have had some impact, somewhere, on the decision-making chain," says David Roberts of King’s College London.

Terrorist groups established joint war room during recent Gaza clashes, editor-in-chief of Hezbollah-aligned newspaper says. "Had Israel expanded the operation, the entire axis of opposition would have joined the fight," he says.