Top Iranian officials pressed the country’s leader to reverse his position, arguing that the risk of war with the United States and the worsening economic crisis could topple the regime.

Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has warned of a "strong reciprocal blow," if President Donald Trump carries out his threat.

The United States and Iran will hold their first serious talks in a decade this weekend. Both sides say they are willing to make a deal, but it is unclear whether their representatives will even sit in the same room.

Iran said it was giving high-level nuclear talks with the U.S. on Saturday "a genuine chance", after Trump threatened bombing if discussions failed.

President Donald Trump announced that the United States would be holding direct talks with Iranian leaders about their nuclear program this weekend in Oman. At the same time, Iran’s foreign minister,

U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff said the Trump administration’s “red line” with Iran is to stop it from being able to produce a nuclear weapon.

Tomorrow, the United States will resume nuclear negotiations with Iran for the first time since Tehran lost most of its proxy forces — including thousands of fighters for Hamas and Hezbollah — and its bet that Donald Trump would not return to the Oval Office.

Khamenei refuses to capitulate to U.S. threats. The time for diplomatic engagement may be over.

President Donald Trump says that Israel would be the “leader” of a potential military strike against Iran if Tehran doesn’t give up its nuclear weapons program.