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Iran has approached Washington to ask whether US sanctions could be lifted, US President Donald Trump told the leaders of the C5+1 Central Asian countries at the White House on Thursday.

Zohran Mamdani’s stomping win in New York’s mayoral race drew starkly different reactions in Iran, with views on the first Muslim to run America’s largest city reflecting a bitterly divided political landscape.

The United States Treasury on Thursday imposed sanctions on a network of alleged Hezbollah financiers it says channelled tens of millions of dollars from Iran into Lebanon this year.

US authorities have arrested the 19-year-old son of Iranian-American poet Roger Sedarat over an alleged Islamic State-inspired plot to bomb gay bars in Detroit, the New York Post reported citing police sources.

The US Justice Department is investigating whether a son of Iran’s former security chief breached sanctions while using a global network of banks, Bloomberg reported on Wednesday citing people familiar with the matter.

Seventy-six Iranian lawmakers urged the justice minister on Wednesday to file international complaints against US President Donald Trump, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Rafael Grossi, head of the UN atomic watchdog.

The United States on Wednesday called the death by gunshot of a young Iranian man after he had filmed himself burning a photo of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei suspicious and suggested the state was involved.

Any possible talks between Iran and the United States would be limited to the nuclear file, Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said on Wednesday.

An Iranian lawmaker on Wednesday hailed the victory of Zohran Mamdani, a Muslim Democratic candidate in a US mayoral election, as proof of the strength of the slogan “Death to Israel,” the state broadcaster reported. 

Almost half a century after young revolutionaries stormed the US embassy in Tehran, Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei once again defended the move, leaning into the original break between the arch-foes and all but ruling out rapprochement.

The United States on Tuesday condemned Iran’s record on international law and human rights on the 46th anniversary of the 1979 takeover of its embassy in Tehran.

Some critics in Iran's diaspora are expressing skepticism about Zohran Mamdani, the Muslim and self-described Democratic socialist frontrunner in elections for New York City mayor on Tuesday, even likening his populist vision to Ayatollah Khomeini's 1979 Islamic Revolution.

Iran’s Supreme Leader said on Monday the 1979 seizure of the US embassy in Tehran was a defining moment of national pride that marked the beginning of a long-standing confrontation between Iran and the United States based on conflicting interests rather than temporary disputes.

Iran on Tuesday marked the anniversary of the 1979 seizure of the US embassy in Tehran with state-organized rallies across the country, the first such commemorations since the United States and Israel carried out air strikes on Iranian targets earlier this year.

Iranian lawmakers chanted “Death to America” and “Death to Israel” in parliament on Tuesday as they marked the anniversary of the 1979 seizure of the US Embassy in Tehran, state media reported.

A US federal judge has found Iran liable and awarded $841 million in damages to 36 plaintiffs whose family members had been wounded or killed in attacks by militant groups in Iraq’s Anbar province, their co-counsel said on Monday.

The United States has revoked the permanent residency of Alireza Dabir, the president of Iran’s Wrestling Federation and a staunch loyalist of Iran's Supreme Leader, a US government official told Iran International.

Former Iranian foreign minister Javad Zarif said on Monday that the United States failed to humiliate Iran in a June war and that only earnest negotiations could resolve the impasse between the two adversaries.