TEHRAN (Iran News) – Iran’s Foreign Ministry lambasted as a “clear violation of international law” the US secretary of state’s declaration that Israeli settlements on the occupied Palestinian territories were no longer considered illegal and condemned US approach to Israeli settlements. In a statement on Thursday, Foreign Ministry Spokesman Abbas Mousavi roundly condemned the announcement […]

TEHRAN (Iran News) – Canada broke a long-standing policy of declining to support a United Nations resolution. Illegal Israeli settlements condemned by canada is an effort to distance itself from Washington after the administration of President Donald Trump announced it no longer considers Israeli settlements in the West Bank in breach of international law. The […]

A US diplomat who is a key witness in the impeachment inquiry into the US president said on Wednesday Donald Trump’s personal attorney Rudy Giuliani efforts to push Ukrainian president for investigations into Trump’s political rivals “were a quid pro quo for arranging a White House visit” for the Ukrainian leader. Quid pro quo is […]

TEHRAN (Iran News) – Iran once again reiterated that its measures to scale back its nuclear commitments under a 2015 nuclear deal with major powers were in response to the US reimposition of sanctions that prevented Tehran from reaping the benefits of the agreement. Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif made the remark on Iran nuclear […]

TEHRAN (Iran News) – Iran-Russia medical equipment cooperation will be expanded and developed in the related fields of medicine. For this purpose, the deputies’ health ministries of Iran and Russia met and held talks in Moscow on Tuesday and emphasized the need for the expansion of Iran-Russia medical equipment cooperation and export of medicine and […]

TEHRAN (Iran News) – France deplored a US decision to end a sanctions waiver related to Iran’s Fordow nuclear facility. “We regret the decision of the United States, following Iran’s Fordow site and resumption of uranium enrichment, to terminate an exemption that would facilitate the conduct of civilian projects on this site,” French foreign ministry […]

TEHRAN (Iran News) – Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan said he holds no grudge against former PM Nawaz Sharif. Pakistan’s opposition Muslim League had earlier sought unconditional permission to take the ailing former PM Nawaz Sharif, to London for treatment, warning Prime Minister Imran Khan that if anything happened to Sharif, he would be responsible […]

TEHRAN (Iran News) – Syria UN envoy Bashar al-Jaafari said Takfiri terrorist groups operating in the northwestern province of Idlib continue to take civilians as human shields, stressing that it is the Damascus government’s duty to purge the area of their presence. Speaking at a UN Security Council session on the situation in the Middle […]

TEHRAN (Iran News) – The UN General Assembly reaffirmed by an overwhelming majority Syria’s sovereignty over the occupied Golan and over its resources, demanding that Israeli regime cease exploiting, damaging, squandering, depleting, or endangering its natural resources. This came in a resolution approved by the Economic and Financial Committee (Second Committee) of the General Assembly, […]

Bolivia’s Evo Morales called for the UN mediation and possibly Pope Francis, to mediate in the Andean nation’s political crisis following his ouster as president in what he called a coup d’etat that forced him into exile in Mexico. In an interview with The Associated Press Thursday in Mexico City, Morales called for the UN […]