TEHRAN – Ammar al-Hakim, leader of the Iraqi National Wisdom Movement, has announced support for Iran in the face of U.S. sanctions. Hakim said the policy of threatening and putting the countries under economic siege is “wrong” and “unfair”, ISNA reported on Saturday. Expressing Iraq’s solidarity with Iran, he said, “Today, we express our opposition […]

The Russian embassy in the United Kingdom slammed anti-Russia rhetoric by UK Defense Secretary Gavin Williamson, saying that his statements are aimed at justifying expansion of NATO states’ defense budgets. Earlier in the week, Williamson, in his address at the Atlantic Council, accused Moscow of aggression, cyber attacks and the political sabotage, Sputnik reported. “An […]

Syrian state media said on Saturday the country’s air defenses had confronted a “hostile target” breaching the Syrian airspace west of the capital Damascus in the early hours of the morning.  quoting its correspondent, said there were reports of “air defenses confronting a hostile target breaching the skies above the area of Deir al-Asha’ir in […]

The President of the General Union of Iraqi Chambers of Commerce Jaafar Al-Hamdani says that the trade with Iran is continuing despite risk of US sanctions. Speaking to Iraqi economic news website ‘economy-news.net’,  Jaffar Al-Hamdani said that trade between Iraq and Iran is going on as usual despite the fact that the US sanctions have taken […]

The global community unanimously opposes the resumption of US sanctions on Iran and demands that their economic ties with Tehran continue in the future, wrote Chinese newspaper, Global Times, on Saturday. The US President Donald Trump has destabilized the Middle East by withdrawing from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), also known as Iran […]

The embattled Turkish lira tumbled over 16 percent to new record lows against the dollar as strains with the United States intensified, but President Recep Tayyip Erdogan defiantly proclaimed Turkey would emerge victorious in an “economic war”. Compounding the lira’s agony, President Donald Trump said Friday he had doubled steel and aluminium tariffs on Turkey, […]

The U.S.’ additional tariffs on steel imports from Turkey will take effect on Aug. 13, the White House and Department of Commerce announced Friday. “To further reduce imports of steel articles and increase domestic capacity utilization, I have determined that it is necessary and appropriate to impose a 50 percent ad valorem tariff on steel […]

The Kremlin on Thursday vowed to retaliate against “unacceptable” new US sanctions against Russia over its alleged role in a nerve agent attack on a former spy in Britain, which prompted the ruble and Russian stocks to tumble. The action by the US State Department is the latest salvo in a series of disputes between […]

Iraqi government spokesman Saad al-Hadithi told Sputnik Thu. that his country will look for mechanisms to neutralize the influence of US sanctions and to support trade relations with Iran. “The sanctions will influence, first of all, money transfers and banking operations in the US dollar. The sides will not use the US dollar,” al-Hadithi told Russian […]

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan will visit Iran soon, Armenia’s Secretary of the Security Council Armen Grigoryan wrote this on his Facebook page, noting that on Thursday, he met with Iranian Ambassador to Armenia Seyyed Kazem Sajjad. “Highly appreciating the rich history of mutual assistance and cooperation between the two countries and nations, I expressed […]