Video showing a Russian-built MiG-29 patrolling skies over Tehran has emerged just days after Iran received the jets.

Iran's theocracy prepared Sunday for a possible confrontation with the West after the United Nations reimposed sanctions over its nuclear program, even as some pushed for continued negotiations to ease the economic pain squeezing the country.

Larijani arrived in Beirut on Saturday, meeting first with Lebanese Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri. In those talks, he endorsed Hezbollah’s call for closer ties with Saudi Arabia and emphasized regional cooperation as essential for countering Israel.

Iran insists diplomacy is the only way to resolve a decades-long nuclear dispute with the West, Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi told Iranian state TV on Monday, adding it was time for the West to choose "cooperation or confrontation" amid looming sanctions.

European powers seeking to soon reimpose tough sanctions on Iran over its nuclear program met Tuesday with Tehran's top diplomat, but there were no signs of compromise.Iran and the Europeans blame one another for the failure of diplomatic efforts to reach a new agreement on Tehran's nuclear program,

Iran on Sunday condemned as "unjustifiable" the reinstatement of United Nations sanctions over its nuclear programme, after the collapse of talks with Western powers and Israeli and US strikes on