The White House announced new sanctions against Iran’s oil network on Thursday, piling more pressure on Tehran’s economy as President Trump pushes forward with his maximum pressure policy. The penalties,

Iran's parliament had voted to suspend cooperation previously. Iran could use the suspension of IAEA cooperation as leverage in future negotiations on its nuclear program, though no talks are currently due after Tehran rejected President Donald Trump's offer to restart diplomacy immediately on the issue.

Iran will not retaliate further against the United States’s strikes on the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program or pursue nuclear “militarization,” according to one of the country’s top diplomats. “As long as there is no act of aggression being perpetrated by the United States against us,

U.S. strikes on multiple Iranian nuclear facilities last month set back Tehran's nuclear program by about two years, Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell disclosed during a press briefing. "Iran is much further away today from a nuclear weapon than they were before the president took bold action to fulfill his promise to the American people,