Supporters of renewed JCPOA say it buys army time to prepare for more extensive strike on Iran and deal with other regional threats, but they appear to be minority among leadership

Senior Iranian official tells EU diplomat that breaches of 2015 deal a 'legal and rational reaction to US unilateralism'; Israeli official warns against renewing 'very bad' accord

Josep Borrell tweets that 'diplomacy is the only way' to return to the 2015 deal, while Iran says meeting will focus on 'status of negotiations to lift sanctions'

Addressing Iranian dissidents from the Mujahedeen-e-Khalq group in Albania, the ex-vice president calls Raisi 'a brutal mass murderer,' hails Trump's decision to pull out of JCPOA

Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian says 'negotiations train has reached difficult stops' as talks near end, in presser with visiting Russian counterpart

Officials don't say how many people arrested or their nationalities; separately announces that a group was arrested in April on suspicion of leaking classified nuclear secrets

Tehran informs nuclear watchdog that it has begun process to set in motion a second cluster of advanced centrifuges at secret underground site

Tehran says if Washington ends sanctions, the sides can 'certainly and quickly' finalize agreement; says its decision to disconnect IAEA cameras was 'proportionate and decisive'

'The world must give us the right not to trust the United States because they are violating their agreements,' Raisi says; UAE calls on Iran to prove nuclear program is peaceful

Mourning flyer posted on social media says lieutenant in Islamic Revolutionary Guard's aerospace division died on June 15