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Philip Hammond is flying to Tehran for a ceremony to mark the move in the first visit to the country by a British foreign secretary since 2003.

Hammond said that it was important that the two countries maintained dialogue even under the most hard conditions.

Iran’s Oil Minister Bijan Zanganeh has started negotiations with the visiting British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond in the Iranian capital.

The pair watched as the Union flag was raised while the national anthem played as the embassy’s perimeter fence was guarded by dozens of Iranian police.

The United Kingdom reopened its embassy in Iran for the first time in four years as diplomatic relations improved following July’s nuclear accord, the Foreign Office said.

British embassy as Britain’s Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond visits Iran to reopen it on August 23, 2015 in the capital Tehran.

The agreement over Iran’s nuclear program is “a deal with the devil” that should be rejected by Congress, Rabbi Richard Block, immediate past president of the Central Conference of American Rabbis, said in an op-ed today in The Hill.

Almost four years after protesters stormed the UK Embassy in Iran, triggering a drastic breakdown in relations, Britain is restoring its diplomatic presence in Tehran.

Seventy years after the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Nagasaki, Pope Francis on Sunday (August 9) described the bomb as a “lasting warning to humanity”.

Takht-e-Ravanchi says British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond will attend the reopening of the British Embassy in Tehran on Sunday.

South Korean President Park Geun-hye said Saturday that the Friday speech by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe expressing deep remorse for Japan’s wartime actions had fallen short of Seoul’s expectations.

A civilian was injured in an overnight ceasefire violation by Pakistan Rangers on the global Border in Jammu district.

Saudi Arabia King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud is scheduled to visit Russian Federation by the end of this year, an indication that the relations between the countries are improving drastically. The opposition insists that his removal is fundamental to a peace deal. And that is...

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe failed to grasp the nettle when he delivered a much-touted address on the 70th anniversary of Japan’s surrender at the end of the Second World War.

A Japanese journalist cited in a Washington Post report described the remarks as “unprecedented”, and it has been suggested that the emperor has shown a subtle opposition to Abe’s “aggressive form of pacifism” when it comes to commenting on the...