Grossi highlighted that the Islamic Republic continues to increase its 20% and 60% enriched uranium stock as well as the number of cascades it has for enriching uranium in violation of the 2015 deal.

As Iran braces for another Trump presidency, which last time saw the dissolution of the Iran nuclear deal, the director of the UN's nuclear watchdog agency holds talks in Tehran regarding the Iranian nuclear program.

The Iranian mission to the United Nations declined to comment on a New York Times report that Trump ally Elon Musk met with Iran’s ambassador to the U.N.

The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency warned Thursday that the “space for negotiation and diplomacy ... is getting smaller” over Iran's advancing atomic program as wars in the Mideast rage on and as President Donald Trump will return to the White House.

Iran insisted it remains open to negotiation for safeguards on its nuclear program in a series of meetings with the United Nations's point man on global nuclear policy.

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian told the visiting head of the UN nuclear watchdog on Thursday that his government was willing to resolve doubts about its atomic programme, ahead of US

Iranian oil exports have climbed this year to near multi-year highs of 1.7 million barrels per day despite US sanctions