Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said Sat. that Turkey was preparing to trade with its top trade partners like China, Russia, Iran and Ukraine and even European countries in local currencies instead of the US dollar. According to Turkey’s Daily Sabah English website, the Turkish president made the remarks while addressing the ruling Justice and […]

US State Secretary Mike Pompeo spoke on a phone with his Canadian counterpart Chrystia Freeland and discussed the diplomatic row between Riyadh and Ottawa as well as the US sanctions on Iran, State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert said. The relations between Saudi Arabia and Canada have been tense since last week, when the Canadian Foreign […]

Austrian Ambassador to Iran Stefan Scholz says the will of his country and the European Union is based on promoting bilateral relation with Iran, noting that the aim of his visits to major Iranian provinces was to continue bilateral cooperation. Speaking at a meeting of the Islamic Council of Yazd, Scholz termed as unique the […]

Russian President Vladimir Putin affirmed the importance of the return of the Syrian refugees to their areas. Putin’s remarks came during a phone call with his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron. The Kremlin said in a statement that Putin stressed during the call that the international community should continue to contribute to the return of Syrian […]

TEHRAN – The EU has never wavered in its support for the JCPOA as it wholeheartedly believes that the nuclear deal is a “good agreement that is working”, says Nathalie Tocci, an aide to EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini. In an interview with Tasnim published on Saturday, Tocci said the JCPOA is an agreement […]

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 […]