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This undated photograph from the United Arab Emirates' Mission to the United Nations released Thursday, June 6, 2019, shows debris from the Saudi-owned oil tanker Amjad off the coast of Fujairah, United Arab Emirates. A joint statement released Thursday by Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Norway said the damage done to the four oil tankers off the UAE likely came from limpet mines placed by a &quot;state actor&quot; amid U.S. and Saudi allegations Iran carried out the sabotage. Iran has denied being involved amid heightened tensions between Tehran and Washington. (United Arab Emirates' Mission to the United Nations via AP)

The Latest: Iran urges regional dialogue to ease tensions

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Nizar Zakka, a Lebanese citizen and U.S. permanent resident, who was released in Tehran after nearly four years in jail on charges of spying, flashes victory signs upon his arrival at the presidential palace, in Baabda, east of Beirut, Tuesday, June 11, 2019. Zakka a Lebanese businessman was allowed to fly to Lebanon, a development that comes amid heightened tensions between Iran and the U.S. after President Donald Trump withdrew America from Tehran's nuclear deal with world powers. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

US resident freed by Iran to Trump: ‘Get back your hostages’

By BASSEM MROUE - Associated Press

US imposes sanctions on Iraq-based affiliate of Iran’s Guard

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Iraqi Foreign Minister Mohamed Alhakim, right, shakes hands with his visiting Omani counterpart Yusuf bin Alawi, after a press conference at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Building in Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, June 12, 2019. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)

The Latest: Merkel urges ‘peaceful solutions’ in Gulf crisis

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In this Jan. 22, 2014, file photo, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, left, and Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, attend a session of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Abe's trip to Tehran on Wednesday, June 12, 2019, represents the highest-level effort yet to de-escalate tensions between the U.S. and Iran. The visit comes as Iran appears poised to break the 2015 nuclear deal it struck with world powers that America earlier abandoned. (AP Photo/Michel Euler, File)

Japan premier hopes to ease US-Iran tensions in Tehran visit

By JON GAMBRELL and MARI YAMAGUCHI - Associated Press

In this July 18, 2017, file photo, Ziad Zakka, brother of Nizar Zakka who is imprisoned in Iran, shows a photo of his brother on his cellular telephone in Beirut, Lebanon. Iranian state television reported Monday, June 10, 2019, that Zakka, a Lebanese national and a U.S. permanent resident held for years in Tehran, &quot;will be released in the coming hours.&quot; (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein, File)

The Latest: Freed US resident blasts Iran over detention

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This photo released by the official website of the Iranian Defense Ministry on Sunday, June 9, 2019, shows the Khordad 15, a new surface-to-air missile battery at an undisclosed location in Iran. The system uses locally made missiles that resemble the HAWK missiles that the U.S. once sold to the shah and later delivered to the Islamic Republic in the 1980s Iran-Contra scandal. (Iranian Defense Ministry via AP)

Mohammad Javad Zarif, top Iranian diplomat, warns U.S. it cannot ‘expect to stay safe’

By Amir Vahdat and Jon Gambrell - Associated Press

In this April 28, 2009, The New York Times' correspondent based in Tehran Thomas Erdbrink walks on a sidewalk in Tehran, Iran. Iran has revoked the press accreditation for The New York Times' correspondent based in Tehran, the newspaper reported Tuesday. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Iran revokes New York Times correspondent’s accreditation

By JON GAMBRELL - Associated Press

This photo released by the official website of the Iranian Defense Ministry on Sunday, June 9, 2019, shows the Khordad 15, a new surface-to-air missile battery at an undisclosed location in Iran. The system uses locally made missiles that resemble the HAWK missiles that the U.S. once sold to the shah and later delivered to the Islamic Republic in the 1980s Iran-Contra scandal. (Iranian Defense Ministry via AP)

The Latest: Iran’s president meets with German FM in Tehran

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The foreign minister of the United Arab Emirates, Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, gives a news conference with German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Sunday, June 9, 2019. Maas visited the UAE as part of a Mideast tour before heading to Iran to discuss heightened regional tensions between Tehran and the U.S. (AP Photo/Jon Gambrell)

Iran gears up for high-stakes diplomacy amid tension with US

By JON GAMBRELL - Associated Press

French President Emmanuel Macron, left, meets U.S President Donald Trump during a ceremony to mark the 75th anniversary of D-Day at the Normandy American Cemetery in Colleville-sur-Mer, Normandy, France, Thursday, June 6, 2019. World leaders are gathered Thursday in France to mark the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings. (Ian Langsdon/POOL via AP)

Trump, Macron agree Iran must not develop nukes

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

Japan PM to visit Iran in effort to mediate tension with US

By MARI YAMAGUCHI - Associated Press

Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif (shown) speaks during a joint news conference with Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu, in Ankara, Turkey, Wednesday, April 17, 2019. (AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici)

Mohammad Javad Zarif: Iran to use ‘whatever missiles it wants’ to stop U.S. aggression

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Iran Options Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

Iran must discontinue its nuclear program and cease being a malign actor

By Gary Anderson

In this June 6, 2018, frame from Islamic Republic Iran Broadcasting, IRIB, state-run TV, three versions of domestically-built centrifuges are shown in a live TV program from Natanz, an Iranian uranium enrichment plant, in Iran. A report Friday, May 31, 2019, by U.N. nuclear watchdogs said Iran had begun installing IR-6s like the one shown on the left. That raised questions for the first time about its adherence to a key provision of Irans 2015 nuclear deal with world powers that was intended to limit the country's use of advanced centrifuges. (IRIB via AP) **FILE**

Iran may be cheating on Obama-era nuclear deal: U.N. report

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

In this April 5, 2019, photo, residents watch as local militia and Iraqi army soldiers walk past their home during a raid in Badoush, Iraq. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana) ** FILE **

Iraq Shia militias main threat as U.S.-Iran tension soars

By Carlo Muñoz - The Washington Times

In this Friday, May 24, 2019, file photo, U.S. National Security Adviser John Bolton is surrounded by reporters at the prime minister's official residence in Tokyo, Japan. North Korea on Monday, May 27, 2019, has called U.S. National Security Adviser Bolton a &quot;war monger&quot; and &quot;defective human product&quot; after he called the North's recent tests of short-range missile a violation of U.N. Security Council resolutions. (Yohei Kanasashi/Kyodo News via AP, File)

The Latest: Khamenei says Iran won’t negotiate on military

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Report: Former Tehran mayor confesses to shooting wife

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John Bolton arrives to speak at the commencement for the United States Coast Guard Academy in New London, Conn., Wednesday, May 22, 2019. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill)

Trump adviser warns of ‘strong response’ to any Gulf attack

By JON GAMBRELL - Associated Press

In this photo released by the Foreign Office, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, attends a meeting with Pakistani officials at the Foreign Ministry in Islamabad, Pakistan, Friday, May 24, 2019. Zarif was in Pakistan Friday on a critically timed visit amid a crisis between Tehran and Washington and ahead of next week's emergency Arab League meeting called by Saudi Arabia as regional tensions escalate. (Pakistan Foreign Office via AP)

Iran’s Guard talks tough, says it has no fear of war with U.S.

By Nasser Karimi - Associated Press