TEHRAN – US President Donald Trump sent on Monday his condolences to the victims the recent mass shooting in Las Vegas. “My warmest condolences and sympathies to the victims and families of the terrible Las Vegas shooting. God bless you!” he said in a tweet. ​Las Vegas police confirmed on Monday that Stephen Paddock was […]

US Secretary of Health and Human Services Tom Price has been forced to resign amid a scandal over using costly private jets for his government travel. “Price offered his resignation earlier today and the president accepted,” White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said in a statement on Friday. “The President intends to designate Don […]

A North Korean official says Pyongyang will “show a super response” to recent threats made by US President Donald Trump. In an exclusive interview with Press TV on Wednesday, Paek Hyon Chol, the vice general director of the North Korean Foreign Ministry’s Asian affairs, said his country was determined to react to Trump’s threats against North Korea’s […]

The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) says Iran has been providing the UN nuclear watchdog with all the necessary access it requires to monitor Tehran’s compliance with the 2015 nuclear deal, saying the inspection process is going on smoothly. In a Tuesday interview with Reuters, Yukiya Amano, reiterated that Iran is in […]

TEHRAN  – President Donald Trump said Tuesday that Spain should stay united, branding as “foolish” a looming secession vote by one of the country’s regional governments. “I think that Spain is a great country and it should remain united,” Trump said at a news conference following White House talks with Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy. […]

A senior American political analyst said US President Donald Trump used the 2015 nuclear deal between Tehran and world powers as a tool during his campaign to win the election, noting that he is now making the appearances of planning to walk out of the agreement. “…, what we have to remember is that during […]

TEHRAN – Iranian Judiciary Chief Ayatollah Sadeq Amoli Larijani said recent comments by US President Donald Trump against the Islamic Republic in the United Nations General Assembly have their roots in Washington’s anger over Tehran’s success to foil US plots in the Middle East. “Since the victory of the Islamic Revolution to the present day, […]

TEHRAN – Donald Trump has more than doubled the number of covert US airstrikes in Yemen compared with the final year of Barack Obama’s presidency, new estimates show. The rise, combined with Trump’s rollback of Obama-era safeguards, has sparked renewed concern from MPs and human rights groups over the UK’s role in US counter-terrorism operations, […]

TEHRAN – President Donald Trump on Sunday slapped new travel restrictions on citizens from North Korea, Venezuela and Chad, expanding to eight the list of countries covered by his original travel bans that have been derided by critics and challenged in court. Iran, Libya, Syria, Yemen and Somalia were left on the list of affected […]

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has said that US President Donald Trump’s new travel ban is proof of his fake empathy for Iranians. Zarif made the remark via his official twitter account early on Monday shortly after Trump signed the new rules, in which citizens of Chad, Iran, Libya, North Korea, Somalia, Syria, Venezuela and Yemen face […]