Our powerful armed forces have no qualms about firing back with everything we have if we come under renewed attack,” Abbas Araghchi wrote in an op-ed.

Already, Iran has vastly limited its subsidized currency rates to cut down on corruption. It also has offered the equivalent of $7 a month to most people in the country to cover rising costs. However, Iran’s people have seen the rial fall from a rate of 32,000 to $1 just a decade ago — which has devoured the value of their savings.

Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, proposed a video conference between US president Donald Trump and his Iranian counterpart, Masoud Pezeshkian – the kind of high-wire diplomacy that may appeal to the US leader, but would be anathema to circumspect Iranian diplomats.

US President Donald Trump’s shifting tone on Iran is part of the administration’s approach with Trump now warning that a new conflict with Iran will be worse than the 12-day war.

ANKARA, Jan 29 (Reuters) - Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi will visit Turkey on Friday for talks with his counterpart Hakan Fidan on the recent developments in Iran and tensions with the United States,

Several key U.S. allies in the Middle East have engaged in intensive diplomacy between Iran and the United States, aiming to stave off a military conflict, a Gulf official told CBS News.

The President of the United States, Donald Trump, stated on Thursday that his country has deployed an "enormous fleet" in waters near Iran and issued a direct warning to Tehran to end the repression against the protests that have been shaking the country for weeks.

The United States is "open for business" if Iran wishes to contact Washington, a U.S. official said on Monday, as the United States seeks to pressure Tehran over a