Authorities say Iran and Pakistan are expected to sign a free trade deal within the next six months.

The concessions made to Iran during the Vienna talks have angered Western- and Saudi-owned Persian-language media outlets, says an advisor to the Iranian negotiating team.

Iraq is negotiating with Iran to secure increased supply of natural gas for its power plants.

Iran says the country’s top negotiator and his accompanying delegation are to leave Tehran for Vienna for fresh talks.

Russia has dismissed the "utterly unfounded" speculations that it may use nuclear weapons in Ukraine, saying it would only use its nuclear arsenal in response to "direct aggression" by NATO countries over the ongoing conflict in the former Soviet state.

Russia’s deputy PM Novak heads to Tehran for high-level energy talks with Iranian officials.

The IRGC chief commander says negotiations and agreements brokered by the US only aim to buy time for Israel and weaken Palestinian resistance.

Iran has confirmed that it held a fifth round of "positive" talks with Saudi Arabia in Baghdad on normalizing bilateral relations.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has accused the West of seeking to sabotage negotiations between Russia and Ukraine by fueling "hysteria" over the alleged mass killing of civilians by Russian forces in the town of Bucha, warning that the peace process could collapse if such attempts continued.

Poland has called for a NATO peacekeeping mission "protected by armed forces" to be sent to Ukraine to provide humanitarian and peaceful aid to the country, as Russia's military campaign against its neighbor continues.