Austria’s permanent representative to the United Nations (UN) says the Iran nuclear deal will continue to stand even if the United States, which is a party to the agreement, withdraws from it. In an exclusive interview with Iran’s IRNA news agency, which was published on Tuesday, Jan Kickert denounced as “wrong and unjustifiable” a possible move […]

TEHRAN – The National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC) and Russia’s energy giant Lukoil have signed two Memoranda of Understanding (MoUs) in the field of geological prospecting, an oil industry source said. “At the beginning of the visit of Iranian Oil Minister Bijan Zanganeh to Russia, a Memorandum of Understanding was signed between the National Iranian […]

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has said that US President Donald Trump “would open a Pandora’s box” if he tries to renegotiate terms of the Iran’s nuclear agreement with world powers. During an interview published by the Associated Press on Wednesday, Zarif stressed that the possibility of renegotiating the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) […]

A former senior aide to ex-US President Barack Obama has rejected the narrative by current American administration officials that Iran is “violating the spirit” of a 2015 nuclear deal even as it is in technical compliance with it. “This notion that somehow Iran is in violation of the spirit of the deal… There’s no spirit […]

TEHRAN– Senior MP Alaeddin Boroujerdi said Sun. that the US House’s vote to block sales of commercial aircraft to Iran is a “flagrant violation” of the nuclear deal. Head of the Parliament’s National Security and Foreign Policy Commission Alaeddin Boroujerdi was reacting to a recent move by the US House of Representatives in voting in favor […]

NEW YORK  – The meeting of Iran’s nuclear deal Joint Commission on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly is likely, but not fixed yet, Iranian ambassador to the United Nations said on Friday. The 72nd UN General Assembly will be held Sep 19-25 with the world heads of states, including Iran’s President Hassan […]

TEHRAN – China’s CITIC Trust will extend $10 billion credit line for supporting projects in Iran, based on an agreement signed between the company and five Iranian banks at CITIC Group headquarters in Beijing on Thursday. Export Development Bank of Iran, Bank of Industry and Mine, Parsian Bank, Bank Pasargad Iran and Refah Bank are […]

TEHRAN – Mogherini’s silence over US breaching the nuclear deal of July 2015 is not a trivial issue to be simply condoned as just paying lip service to the agreement is not enough. In the past days, some news has been spread about European troika aliging with the US in the way of dealing with […]

TEHRAN – Iran has signed a number of agreements with Syria to reconstruct power plants and electricity transmission lines in the war-torn neighboring country, the caretaker of the Iranian energy ministry Sattar Mahmoodi said on Tuesday. The Syrian government signed a contract to import Iranian power plants for the city of Aleppo, Syrian state news […]

TEHRAN – The Board of Governors at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), which started its seasonal meeting last week, is set to review Iran’s compliance with the nuclear agreement on Monday. The meeting will begin with IAEA Director General Yukiya Amano’s speech. In its 8th seasonal report on May 2017, the IAEA recertified Iran’s […]