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Iranian FM Zarif sends counterparts letters on JCPOA 01 Jun 2018

Iranian FM Zarif sends counterparts letters on JCPOA

In separate letters to his counterparts, Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has briefed them on the latest situation of the Iran nuclear deal. Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Ghasemi said on Wednesday, “Dr. Zarif, the Foreign Minister of the Islamic Republic of Iran, has, in an elaborate letter to his counterparts from other countries, expounded […]

US secondary sanctions targeting Iran economy 01 Jun 2018

US secondary sanctions targeting Iran economy

Mohammad Javad Larijani, the Secretary General of Iran’s High Council for Human Rights, said on Wednesday that new US anti-Iran sanctions are aimed to inflict damage on Iranian economy. “The new anti-Iran sanctions imposed by US are targeting Iranian economy,” said Mohammad Javad Larijani, the Secretary General of Iran’s High Council for Human Rights, on […]

Lawmakers pass Islamic punishment law 31 May 2018

Lawmakers pass Islamic punishment law

TEHRAN – The Iranian parliament on Wednesday voted in favor of making the Islamic punishment law permanent, ISNA reported. The generalities of the law was passed with 128 votes in favor, 84 against and 12 abstentions and the details of the law received 139 votes in favor, 81 against and 8 abstentions. The Islamic punishment […]

Circumstances justify nuclear turnabout: Iran’s former negotiator 31 May 2018

Circumstances justify nuclear turnabout: Iran’s former negotiator

TEHRAN – Saidi Jalili, who served as Iran’s chief nuclear negotiator under former president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, says the issues surrounding the 2015 nuclear deal authorizes Iran to remove limits on its nuclear program. Recently the United States said it will no longer comply with the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) – the official […]

IRGC: No one can undermine Iran’s missile power 31 May 2018

IRGC: No one can undermine Iran’s missile power

TEHRAN – A top IRGC commander said on Tuesday that no country can undermine Iran’s missile power or its regional influence. The remarks by Brigadier General Hossein Salami, the second-ranking official at the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps, was in response to U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s anti-Iran speech at the conservative Heritage Foundation on […]

Official: U.S. resorting to cyber-attacks on Iran 31 May 2018

Official: U.S. resorting to cyber-attacks on Iran

TEHRAN – Head of Iran’s Civil Defense Organization says the Americans were pursuing projects such as Nitro Zeus when the nuclear agreement was reached, stressing such facts show that U.S. threats have changed from full-scale wars to cyber-attacks. “The recent remarks by the U.S. secretary of state showed that they have maintained their cyber tools […]

Velayati lays out responses to U.S. JCPOA exit 31 May 2018

Velayati lays out responses to U.S. JCPOA exit

TEHRAN – A top foreign policy adviser to the Leader of the Islamic Revolution has laid out ways to respond to U.S. withdrawal from the nuclear agreement, also called the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), Fars reported. In a meeting dubbed “Lasting Experience”, aimed at reviewing Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s stances on the JCPOA, Ali […]

Tehran Hosts Conference on Leader’s Stances on JCPOA 30 May 2018

Tehran Hosts Conference on Leader’s Stances on JCPOA

 A conference titled “Lasting Experience” was held in Tehran to study Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei’s stances on the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), the international agreement on Iran’s nuclear program. The Islamic Revolution Institute organized the conference in Tehran on Wednesday morning. Ali Akbar Velayati, a senior adviser to […]

Iran enjoys higher status in intl. arena than few years ago 30 May 2018

Iran enjoys higher status in intl. arena than few years ago

Hossein Panahi, the Deputy Foreign Minister for Consular, Parliamentary and Iranian Affairs said Wed. in the past, Iran was under 6 UN resolutions but now the situation is much better than few years ago. “Let’s compare the current situation of the Islamic Republic with a few years ago, when we were under 6 UN resolutions, […]

Larijani re-elected as Iran’s Parliament speaker 30 May 2018

Larijani re-elected as Iran’s Parliament speaker

Obtaining 147 votes, Ali Larijani was re-elected as Iran’s Parliament speaker in the second round of election. In the first round of election, Mohammad Reza Aref, Ali Larijani and Hamid Reza Hajibabaei won 114, 101 and 54 votes respectively. This led to holding the election in second round where Hajibabaie withdraw from his candidacy in […]