US President Donald Trump on Wednesday revoked the security clearance of former Central Intelligence Agency director John Brennan, and warned several other prominent critics they too risk being blacklisted. In a highly unusually directive, Trump claimed that Brennan – a former station chief in Riyadh who rose to lead the US spy agency – had […]

China will send a senior negotiator to the United States in late August to resume trade talks, its commerce ministry said Thursday, the first public meeting on the dispute in weeks as the trade conflict intensifies. Beijing and Washington have slapped tariffs on tens of billions of dollars worth of each other’s goods since they […]

Pakistan foreign ministry spokesperson welcomed the Iranian gesture of putting up greeting billboards on major roads in its cities and running greeting messages on advertising screens on the occasion of Pakistan’s 71st Independence Day on August 14, local media reported. “We welcome it. Iran is our brother and time-tested neighbor,” foreign ministry spokesman Dr Mohammad […]

TEHRAN- The CEO of Germany’s renewable energy company, Durion Energy AG, said his company will not stop working in Iran despite the U.S.-led sanctions against the country, Tasnim news agency reported on Wednesday. Uwe Jorg Kuhnle said: “We made $27 million of investment for building a 20-MW solar farm in Iran last year and we […]

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Tuesday that Convention on Caspian Sea’s legal status laid the groundwork for settling all outstanding issues. The convention on the legal status of the Caspian Sea that has been recently signed by the president of the five littoral states, namely Russia, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Iran and Azerbaijan, has laid […]

The final official results of Iraq’s legislative elections showed that Sadr’s Muqtada al-Sadr-backed alliance won the largest number of seats in the country, making future alliances the final say in shaping the new government. According to the final results of the High Electoral Commission, none of the electoral coalitions exceeded the 55 seats in parliament […]

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday said Turkey would boycott US electronic goods like the iPhone in retaliation for punitive sanctions from Washington, as the Turkish lira finally clawed back some of the ground lost in its stand-off with Washington. The dispute between the NATO allies — brought to a new intensity by Turkey’s holding […]

Russian President Vladimir Putin is ready to meet with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un “at an early date”, the North’s state media reported Wednesday, amid a rapid diplomatic thaw on the peninsula. Putin invited Kim and the South’s President Moon Jae-in in June to an economic forum in Vladivostok next month although it is […]

The United States’ unilateral and secondary sanctions against Iran have been widely reflected in international media. Meanwhile, many Western analysts believe that the the international system isn’t going to comply with Washington’s sanctions against Tehran, and this will reduce the impact of these sanctions on our country. On the other hand, the United States’ unilateral […]

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov asserted while Iran, Turkey and Russia held different stances, finally they managed to eliminate terrorists in Syria and now eliminating Jabhat al-Nusra terrorist organization is the main task. “The fact that Turkey, Russia and Iran, having not always concurring and sometimes far from concurring stances on this or that aspect […]