The United States and Iran have offered sharply different accounts of the sinking of an Iranian warship in the Indian Ocean.

The United States has joined the United Kingdom and Israel in accusing Iran of carrying out a deadly drone strike that killed two aboard a tanker off Oman.

A recording of Iran’s foreign minister offering a blunt appraisal of diplomacy and the limits of power within the Islamic Republic has leaked out publicly.

Iran has blamed Israel for an attack on its underground Natanz nuclear facility that damaged its centrifuges.