Ex-Nigerian oil minister denies taking bribes

Police fatally shot the assailant after he ignored at least 20 demands to drop the weapon, said NYPD.

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian also echoed Abbas Araghchi’s stance, saying a diplomatic breakthrough with Washington is still possible if the US abandons what he described as “totalitarianism” and respects Iran’s rights.

Face-to-face talks would mark the highest-level engagement between Iran and the US since the 1979 Islamic Revolution.