Pompeo promotes Iran sanctions on maiden tour to Mideast
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo arrived in Saudi Arabia on Saturday on a hastily-arranged visit to the Middle East as the United States aims to muster support for new sanctions against Iran. The visit to Riyadh, Jerusalem and Amman just two days after Pompeo was sworn-in comes as President Donald Trump is set to […]
Iran delivered on promises in JCPOA: S Koran diplomat
Hong Jin-Wooka visiting South Korean diplomat told an Iranian senior MP, on Sunday, that the world is aware of Iran’s commitment to the JCPOA. “We as a member of the international community are well aware that Iran has been fully committed to the JCPOA,” said Hong Jin-Wook, the Director General of African and Middle Eastern […]
Preserving JCPOA essential for Europe
EU foreign policy chief said on Monday before entering ECFR meeting that maintaining the JCPOA is essential for EU, adding that no decision will be made on the JCPOA in today’s meeting. Speaking to reporters before entering the meeting of European Council on Foreign Relations today in Luxemburg, Federica Mogherini said that preserving the nuclear deal […]
Illegal tripartite strike on Syria inactivates implementing UNSC resolutions
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov affirmed that the tripartite aggression on Syria violated international law and obstructed efforts to implement the UN Security Council resolutions on Syria. In a joint press conference with his Cypriot counterpart Nikos Christodoulides in Moscow, Lavrov said that efforts to implement the UNSC resolutions on Syria have seriously stumbled as […]
Merkel lobbies Trump on Iran
German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Friday that she will stay in close touch with U.S. President Donald Trump on the 2015 nuclear deal. Merkel was in Washington for a brief “working visit” with Trump, according to BBC. Trump has said he will make a decision on whether to leave the deal by May 12. […]
Nuclear deal should remain inviolable: Kremlin
Dmitry Peskov, the Kremlin spokesman, said on Saturday that the 2015 nuclear deal should remain inviolable as the basis for further contacts on the Iranian nuclear program. “What is the main thing is the inviolability of this deal; otherwise, there will be no platform for continuing contacts and for continuing the dialogue,” TASS quoted Peskov […]
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, […]











































