Protests spread in Iran as critics slam a US-backed peace deal, accusing negotiators of weakening Tehran’s leverage over the strategic Strait of Hormuz.

By Parisa Hafezi, Phil Stewart and Steve HollandDUBAI/WASHINGTON, June 12 (Reuters) - The United States and Iran signaled on Friday that an agreement to endtheir warwas close,…

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi says that while changes in the deal were still possible, the tentative agreement showed his country had emerged stronger from the conflict