Move would introduce penalties for non-Iranian institutions that work with banks in the Islamic Republic, effectively cutting them off from the international financial system

Family of Robert Levinson, a Jewish American believed kidnapped in 2007 while on unauthorized CIA mission to Iran, welcomes ruling as 'step in the pursuit of justice'

Assistant secretary of state does not confirm or deny reported threat by Washington to withdraw its troops and close embassy in Baghdad if violence doesn't end

Foreign Minister Lavrov says his country will immediately begin cooperation with Iran when UN arms embargo expires next month, won't heed Washington's 'illegal' demands

Iranian president says Tehran achieved 'great political, legal and diplomatic success' at the international body

President Rouhani says life is hard due to Washington's measures but 'harder is life without independence'; France's Macron warns Europe won't back US actions

Washington's old allies have been reluctant to follow Trump in his crusade to reinstate sanctions after exiting 2015 nuclear deal

Officials offers no evidence for assertion that Tehran will have enough material for bomb by year's end; over 2 dozen individuals and entities linked to arms trade to be penalized

Tehran says Trump administration 'isolated' after other world powers reject American assertion that sanctions on Islamic Republic are back in force

Moscow says Washington's 'theatrics do not correspond to reality,' as the White House insists measures against Tehran have snapped back -- in defiance of the rest of the world