EghtesadOnline: Iran on Wednesday kept up a drumbeat of opposition to U.S. demands for sweeping change in its foreign policy and nuclear program, and Tehran’s ally Damascus dismissed out of hand a U.S. call for a withdrawal of Iranian forces from Syria.

EghtesadOnline: The United States on Monday demanded Iran make sweeping changes — from dropping its nuclear program to pulling out of the Syrian civil war — or face severe economic sanctions as the Trump administration hardened its approach to Tehran.

EghtesadOnline: The United States on Sunday said it hopes to use strong shared interests that have emerged with its European Union partners in recent months to move forward on addressing Iran’s nuclear program, missile development and role in regional conflicts.

EghtesadOnline: The Israeli regime, emboldened by an especially anti-Iran White House, has started repeating threats of military action against the Islamic Republic over its nuclear program.

EghtesadOnline: Donald Trump’s top diplomatic officials said Iran must do more than just meet the terms of the 2015 multinational accord to curb its nuclear program, after the president refused on Friday to certify that the Islamic Republic is in compliance.

EghtesadOnline: President Donald Trump is weighing a new strategy to confront Iran’s nuclear ambitions that would leave a 2015 agreement intact for now but ask Congress to toughen a law overseeing the Islamic Republic’s compliance with the accord, according to three administration officials.

EghtesadOnline: President Donald Trump’s administration said Iran is complying with the deal to curb its nuclear program, even as White House officials argued that the Islamic Republic continues to engage in actions that destabilize the Middle East and isn’t living up to the spirit of the pact.

EghtesadOnline: Head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) Ali-Akbar Salehi says that if the new US President Donald Trump tears up the nuclear deal, Iran will be ready to ramp its nuclear program back up.