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Tom Donilon: Exiting Iran deal is ‘worst mistake’ since Iraq War 14 Jun 2018

Tom Donilon: Exiting Iran deal is ‘worst mistake’ since Iraq War

Tom Donilon, a former Obama national security adviser, has said that U.S. President Donald Trump’s foreign policy move in pulling out of the 2015 nuclear deal as the “worst mistake” since the war in Iraq. “I think the pulling out of the Iran agreement is the worst mistake the United States has made in the […]

Mogherini: EU would guarantee nuclear deal implementation 14 Jun 2018

Mogherini: EU would guarantee nuclear deal implementation

European Union foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini said on Tuesday that the European Union will continue supporting the 2015 nuclear deal, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action. In her speech at the European Parliament, she said that the EU will continue supporting the JCPOA on the simple pragmatic reason “there is no better […]

It’s essential to protect world order from US harm 12 Jun 2018

It’s essential to protect world order from US harm

 In a speech at the Iranian Foreign Ministry Institute for Political and International Studies in November 2013, former German Foreign Minister and Vice Chancellor Joschka Fischer said the United States is the only power which can guarantee a certain order in the world. But that view has proven quite opposite with Donald Trump at the […]

EU is taking steps to protect companies in Iran 12 Jun 2018

EU is taking steps to protect companies in Iran

The European Union is taking steps to protect EU companies investing in Iran from renewed U.S. sanctions on Tehran after U.S. President Donald Trump pulled out of the 2015 nuclear deal. According to an article published by New Europe weekly on Monday, the European Commission said it has adopted an update of the Blocking Statute […]

Suicide Bomber Kills 12 at Afghan Ministry Entrance: Govt. 11 Jun 2018

Suicide Bomber Kills 12 at Afghan Ministry Entrance: Govt.

A suicide bomber killed 12 people and wounded more than 30 on Monday at the entrance to Afghanistan’s rural rehabilitation and development ministry in the west of Kabul, government spokesmen said. No group immediately claimed responsibility. “Woman, children and employees of the (rehabilitation) ministry are among the victims,” Najib Danish, spokesman for the interior ministry, […]

UN chief welcomes Afghan-owned peace process 10 Jun 2018

UN chief welcomes Afghan-owned peace process

United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres has welcomed the announcement of a three-day partial ceasefire during the Eid al-Fitr holiday. This follows the recent announcement by the Afghan Government that it would begin a seven-day ceasefire on 12 June, the 27th day of Ramadan, and run to Eid al-Fitr. Guterres urged all parties concerned “to seize […]

F-35 jet not to fly to Turkey 10 Jun 2018

F-35 jet not to fly to Turkey

Turkey and the US seem to have finally agreed on how to solve the Manbij puzzle in Syria, which has been poisoning relations like an open wound for almost two years.  A long-awaited summit between Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo last week in Washington sealed a road map, which represents […]

Xi calls for further carrying forward Shanghai spirit 10 Jun 2018

Xi calls for further carrying forward Shanghai spirit

Chinese President Xi Jinping on Sunday called for further carrying forward the Shanghai spirit to surmount difficulties, defuse risks and meet challenges. Xi made the remarks at the 18th Meeting of the Council of Heads of Member States of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization in east China’s coastal city of Qingdao, in which Iranian President Hassan […]

India likely to discuss Iran sanctions with the U.S. 10 Jun 2018

India likely to discuss Iran sanctions with the U.S.

TEHRAN – India is likely to discuss with the U.S. its concerns over the impact of U.S. sanctions on deals with both Russia and Iran, an Indian official has said, the Hindustan Times reported. According to Indian officials familiar with the plans, India and the U.S. are slated to hold the first two-plus-two dialogue — […]

John Kerry: Trump proved Ayatollah Khamenei was right 10 Jun 2018

John Kerry: Trump proved Ayatollah Khamenei was right

TEHRAN – Former U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry has sharply criticized the Trump administration’s Iran policy, saying Trump has confirmed everything that Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei feared about [trusting] America. In an interview with Switzerland’s Neue Zurcher Zeitung newspaper, Kerry said, “Trump’s exit is surely the biggest strategic mistake since the Iraq war […]