Pompeo: U.S. likely to leave nuclear agreement
New U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Friday that President Donald Trump will likely withdraw from the 2015 nuclear deal. “The President has been clear — absent a substantial fix, absent overcoming the shortcomings, the flaws of the deal — he is unlikely to stay in that deal past this May,” CNN quoted […]
No possibility to make change to nuclear deal: Russia
Maria Zakharova, the spokeswoman for the Russian Foreign Ministry, said on Thursday that there is no possibility to make changes to the 2015 nuclear deal. “We are seriously concerned by all of this – I am referring to comments made by the presidents of the United States and France about the Joint Comprehensive Plan of […]
EU’s Mogherini: Nuclear deal working
TEHRAN – The European Union foreign policy chief, Federica Mogherini, said on Wednesday that the nuclear deal, officially called the JCPOA, is working. “The deal we have in place now, the only existing deal for the moment is working,” Mogherini told reporters, according to AP. She added, “The deal is working. President Macron stressed that […]
Cleveland Shooting Kills One Boy, Five Others Are Wounded
TEHRAN – One boy was killed and five were wounded Friday night in a shooting on a commercial street in southeast Cleveland, and the US police were looking for an unknown number of suspects who “fired shots and took off running,” said Chief Calvin Williams. The six victims ranged in age from 12 to 16, […]
Saudi Jets Continue Pounding Yemen
TEHRAN– Saudi warplanes carried out new airstrikes against several areas across Yemen, inflicting more human loss and material damage on the country. In northern province of Jizan, the Saudi Apache helicopters fired 16 missiles on Qamar and Qwa villages and the warplanes conducted an airstrike on Jarah valley, Yemen’s official Saba News Agency reported. In […]
We should all act out of total respect for Syria’s sovereignty
Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov called upon all parties concerned in the rebuilding of Syria to act in the interests of the Syrian people and out of total respect for the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Syria. Lavrov made his remarks during a meeting of the Council of Foreign Ministers of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization […]
EU interested in keeping JCPOA alive
TEHRAN– Deputy Director General for European affairs of German Foreign federal Office ambassador Peter Ptassek said Germany is very much interested in keeping Nuclear Deal with Iran alive. Receiving a group of international think tankers, researchers and journalist participating in “the Future of the EU” event in German Federal Foreign Office, deputy director general for […]
Europe poised to launch ocean-monitoring satellite
Europe is set to launch a satellite on Wednesday to keep a close eye on Earth’s oceans, under siege from pollution and damage caused by humans. Dubbed Sentinel-3B, the orbiter will become the seventh to join the multi-billion-euro Copernicus Earth monitoring satellite constellation since April 2014. With its twin Sentinel-3A launched in February 2016, the […]
EU suffering from “Stockholm Syndrome” vis-à-vis Trump on JCPOA
The prevailing fear amongst some of the most important EU leaders, mainly from France, Germany and UK, about the day that JCPOA would be rejected by the Trump administration, is driving them to take hysteric reactions; they feel that they have to do something to keep the JCPOA alive, even at the risk of having […]

Missile attacks on Syria aiming to hinder OPCW probe into ‘Chem Attack’
The Russian and Chinese foreign ministers have held a joint press conference after talks in Beijing, which were dedicated to the situation on the Korean peninsula in the wake of North Korea’s decision to halt nuclear and missile tests, as well as the situation in Syria. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has lashed out at the […]