Critics urge sports organizations to ban Iran after regime allegedly executed thousands of anti-government protesters, including young wrestlers.

Iran is skilled at prolonging negotiations over its nuclear program, and seems to be hoping President Trump is out for a quick win, rather than a prolonged regional war.

US President Donald Trump warned that Iran’s supreme leader should be “very worried,” as both sides prepare for their first formal negotiations since the United States bombed Tehran’s nuclear program last year.

The HRANA report comes as the Islamic Republic has been carrying out an increasing number of executions.

After a round of indirect talks with Trump's envoys in Oman, Iran's top diplomat says the country will keep negotiating, but stresses a lack of trust.

Iran seized two oil tankers Thursday while former Iranian minister Ezzatollah Zarghami threatened to make the Strait of Hormuz a "massacre and hell" for U.S. forces.

U.S. and Iranian envoys have held talks aimed at averting possible U.S. strikes on Iran.

The presence of U.S. Navy Adm. Brad Cooper, in his dress uniform at the talks in Muscat, the Omani capital, served as a reminder that the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln and other warships were now off the coast of Iran in the Arabian Sea.