A senior Iranian official said that Iran will not accept any division of the sanctions imposed by the US on Iran into those that had been lifted under the 2015 nuclear deal and the ones unrelated to the nuclear issues.

Senior Political Analyst Seyed Mostafa Khoshcheshm noted the requirements of the Iranian parliament’s law for Strategic Measures to Counter Sanctions, which call for enhancement of Iran's remedial measures, and said Tehran needs to caution the West that the time frame for the West's compliance with their nuclear deal undertaking is not open.

The situation of human rights in the United States deteriorated further in 2020 as the COVID-19 pandemic and the presidency of Donald Trump exacerbated pre-existing rights concerns while the Black Lives Matter movement against police brutality exposed widespread racism, according to a new report on global human rights by Amnesty International released Tuesday.

The first round of talks in Vienna on Tuesday resulted in an agreement to continue expert-level talks, the Iranian Foreign Ministry said in a statement following the end of the meeting of the JCPOA Joint Commission.

A short search in the internet and monitoring all actions of former U.S. President Donald Trump during his four years in office, from the standpoint of the U.S. Republicans and also actions during the past three months of the White House with its new resident President Joe Biden from the standpoint of Democrats which have been taken against People's Republic of China, indicates the reactions of the U.S. Administrations regarding these reports which have been prepared and handed over to the executive bodies by the U.S. Department of State, all intelligence offices, think-tanks and existing data banks in the country either secretly or openly for provoking politicians against China.

The US and Chinese navies are both holding aircraft carrier drills in the waters off China’s coast.

Mark Fitzpatrick, an associate fellow at the International Institute for Strategic Studies, says that the U.S. can afford to take the first steps to revive the 2015 nuclear deal.

New questions are being raised about security measures around the United States Congress after a vehicular assault on a security checkpoint killed one Capitol Police officer, injured another and ended with the driver of the car shot dead.

An Iraqi anti-terror group has reacted to the upcoming round of strategic talks between Baghdad and Washington, whose key agenda item is reportedly the U.S. combat deployment, emphasizing that armed resistance against American occupation forces will continue until they are fully removed from the Arab country.

Iran says it will hold no direct or indirect negotiations with the United States during the upcoming talks in Vienna, and will not accept any step-by-step removal of sanctions.