US intelligence agencies have found that North Korea is building new missiles, based on satellite photographs taken in recent weeks and other new evidence, The Washington Post reported Monday. Just weeks after a high-stakes summit between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, Pyongyang appears to be developing at least one or […]

President Donald Trump said Monday he is willing to meet with Iran’s leadership, without preconditions, ‘whenever they want.”I would certainly meet with Iran if they wanted to meet,’ Trump said during a joint news conference at the White House alongside Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte. ‘I do believe that they will probably end up wanting […]

Berlin seeks saving the nuclear deal and will support Iran in face of US sanctions, German Ambassador to Tehran said on Monday.’Germany attaches much importance to relations with Iran in every spheres,’ Michael Klor-Berchtold said in a meeting with Heshmatollah Falahatpisheh, head of National Security and Foreign Policy at Iran’s Parliament. Criticizing the US President […]

Professor of political science says the “Arab world” today is a patchwork of competing countries and forming an enduring alliance among the Arab states of the Persian Gulf is an illusory idea concocted by the US. The United States is quietly pushing ahead with a bid to create a new security and political alliance with […]

A spike in oil prices as a result of a temporary halt in shipments through the strategic Bab el Mandeb strait may be short-lived, but the impact on Yemen’s three-year-old forgotten war is likely to put the devastating conflict on the front burner. The halt following a Saudi assertion that Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen […]

United Nations Industrial Development Organizations (UNIDO) has started its first pilot cultural change program and energy efficiency campaign in Iran.The pilot program is being carried out in Alloy Steel Co. which is the biggest producer of alloy steel in the Middle East, the United Nations Information Center (UNIC) said on Monday. Iran Alloy Steel Co. […]

Three guarantor nations for the Syrian ceasefire (Russia, Iran and Turkey) will meet in Sochi today to discuss Syria. Representatives of the guarantor nations for the Syrian ceasefire (Russia, Iran and Turkey) will meet in Sochi today to discuss issues regarding the formation of the Syrian constitutional committee, the situation in de-escalation zones, as well […]

Turkish President Tayyip Erdoğan has said Turkey will stand its ground after US President Donald Trump threatened to slap sanctions on Ankara if it does not free an American pastor. “The friendship between the United States and Turkey is on the line in this dispute,” Turkish President Erdogan said. “We will not take a step […]

TEHRAN – Wendy Sherman, the former undersecretary of state for political affairs who led the U.S. negotiating team that concluded the Iran nuclear agreement, says President Trump does not understand that “Iran has a culture of resistance that equates giving in to those kinds of public threats as surrender, and they won’t surrender.” “President Trump’s […]

Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu has spoken with US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo over the phone, according to a Turkish diplomatic source on Saturday. Separately, the US State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert said in a statement that Pompeo and Cavusoglu spoke to “discuss the case of Pastor Andrew Brunson”. “The secretary and foreign minister committed […]