Kamal Kharrazi, head of Iran’s Strategic Council on Foreign Relations, said on Tuesday that it is Europe’s turn to show political determination to save the 2015 nuclear deal, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action. U.S. President Donald Trump withdrew from the JCPOA in May and plans to re-impose sanctions on Iran in two […]

TEHRAN – The U.S. Treasury Department announced on Monday that it has slapped sanctions on a Malaysia-based sales agent for having links with Mahan Air, an Iranian airline. Mahan Travel and Tourism was sanctioned for as it enabled Mahan Air’s international operations, especially for “conducting financial transactions on behalf of the airline,” the Treasury said […]

TEHRAN – Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said on Tuesday that his ministry spares no efforts in following up on the cases of Iranian expatriates who are held “illegally” and “unjustly” outside the country at Washington’s request. Zarif made the remarks in separate meetings with families of Iranian expatriates who have been detained in different […]

 Vice-President for Women and Family Affairs Masumeh Ebtekar delivered President Rouhani’s letter regarding Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) to Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohammad. In a Tuesday meeting in Putrajaya, the officials of the two countries discussed various issues, including bilateral ties, JCPOA and regional and international topics. Extending warm greetings of Iranian president […]

 Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and his Turkish counterpart Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu held talks by phone on bilateral, regional and international issues. During the telephone conversation on Tuesday, Iranian top diplomat Zarif congratulated Çavuşoğlu on his re-election as Turkey’s foreign minister, wishing his Turkish counterpart further success. The two sides then noted the good and […]

 Deputy Speaker of Parliament Ali Motahari said Tue. that Tehran would retaliate against US threats of reducing Iran’s oil revenues to zero by closing the Strait of Hormuz as one of the world’s key maritime choke points. Motahari made the remark in relation to the US’ implicit threats to squeeze Iran’s oil exports following Washington’s withdrawal from […]

Iranian First Vice-President Es’hagh Jahangiri said that the United States’ Department of Treasury has become the war room against Iran’s economy. He made the remarks on Tuesday in inauguration ceremony of some steel production projects in Isfahan. The enemy wants to totally cut Iran’s revenue from oil exports, triggering an economic crisis in the country […]

 In an address to the UN Security Council Tue., Iran’s Ambassador to the UN Gholamali Khoshroo called for a halt to the killing of Yemeni and Palestinian children by Israel and Saudi and UAE-led coalition. In the Monday session of United Nations Security Council, Gholamali Khoshroo expressed his regret about the fact that Israeli killing […]

Iranian MP Mohammad Ebrahim Rezaei says that Europe will not do anything practical for Iran and is buying time in a scenario written by US. “The role Europe is playing pretending to be trying to preserve the nuclear deal is what US has written for them in a ploy,” said Iranian MP Mohammad Ebrahim Rezaei […]

A senior Iranian MP urged the Iranian foreign ministry to show reaction to the expulsion of 2 Iranian diplomats by the Netherland with doing the same thing with Dutch diplomats in Iran. “The foreign ministry should expel two Dutch diplomats residing in Tehran in a reciprocal counter-measure,” said Alaeddin Boroujerdi the Chairman of Iran’s Parliament […]