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Any stop-gap funding bill should use “the power of the purse to force this administration to hand over the Iranian side deals”, Cruz told reporters at the U.S. Capitol.

US West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude futures were trading down $1.55, or 3.3 percent, at $45.35 a barrel.

For more than a decade Iran has forbidden the IAEA access to the Parchin military installation, where the United Nations nuclear watchdog suspects Iran carried out work on designs for detonator devices that could be used in a nuclear weapon and could fit in a ballistic missile...

The United States enacted economic sanctions on Iran and successfully led the worldwide community to adopt additional restrictions with the goal of bringing Iran to the negotiating table and halting nuclear weapon development.

Diplomats had stated Fri.in that Yukiya Amano of the U.N.’s global Atomic Energy Agency was planning such a visit.

Sen. James Lankford (R-Okla.) said during a speech on the Senate floor Tuesday that he is “astounded” the legislative chamber would sign off on the Iranian nuclear deal without first reading the agreement.

Rouhani also held out the possibility of a prisoner exchange: “I don’t particularly like the word exchange, but from a humanitarian perspective, if we can take a step, we must do it”, he said. Over the past few months, almost everyone has weighed in from...

Efforts made in the nuclear negotiations were not only aimed at preserving the previous achievements, Rouhani said, addressing a gathering of managers of the Iranian knowledge-based companies in Tehran on Wednesday.

Frustrated with the outcome, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., set up a third vote Thursday on a measure that would bar Obama from lifting sanctions on Iran unless Tehran recognized Israel as a state and released US prisoners held in Iran. First, after Carly Fiorina said...

Democrats in the US Senate blocked a last-ditch effort by Republicans on Thursday to add new conditions before President Barack Obama can waive any sanctions under the Iran nuclear deal.

Obama and Netanyahu talked on phone after the deal was reached, and Obama underscored his administration’s commitment to Israel’s security, saying the deal would not diminish the “concerns regarding Iran’s support for terrorism and threats toward Israel“.

The Chinese market collapse, downgrading of Brazil’s credit rating, Russian recessionary concerns, and the South African economic slowdown will curb the demand for crude oil in the long term in the oversupplied crude oil market.

Four undecided Senators – Richard Blumen-thal, Gary Peters, Ron Wyden and Maria Cantwell – lend their support to the Iranian nuclear deal Tuesday.

Obama will meet with King Salman of Saudi Arabia on Friday at the White House to discuss the growing threat posed by the Islamic State, the prospect of increased Iranian aggression, and plans to contain the chaos in Yemen and Syria.

After consulting U.S. officials and European allies for two months, the Saudis were satisfied, he said, that the agreement would effectively contain Iraq’s nuclear programme.