Iran’s parliament will on Sunday debate a letter by its members calling for a change in the country’s stated policy of not pursuing nuclear weapons, raising the stakes in the diplomatic showdown over Tehran’s atomic work ahead of a key UN vote.

Tehran and Moscow have signed a $25bn deal to build four nuclear power reactors in southern Iran, according to Iranian state media.

DUBAI (Reuters) -Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi said on Friday that Tehran would scrap an agreement to let the U.N. watchdog inspect its nuclear sites if Western powers reinstated U.N. sanctions.

The United Nations will reimpose broad sanctions on Iran after days of frantic diplomacy in New York failed to ease a standoff over Tehran’s nuclear program.

Satellite imagery indicates Iran is increasing construction at a deeply buried site in Pickaxe Mountain, just south of the Natanz nuclear facility hit by Israeli and U.S. strikes in June.

Iran and Russia have inked a $25 billion deal on Friday, aiming to give a boost to the nuclear capability of Tehran by building nuclear power plants. A deal for the construction of

Iran and Russia signed a $25 billion deal to build nuclear power plants in the Islamic Republic, Iranian state media reported Friday, just hours ahead of the likely return of sweeping UN sanctions on Iran.

Thousands of Iranian Americans rallied in New York, rejecting Pezeshkian’s legitimacy and calling for a democratic Iran.

The UN Security Council rejects another last-ditch effort to delay the reimposition of sanctions on Iran over its nuclear program.