U.S. Army General Joseph Votel signaled on Tuesday support for the 2015 nuclear deal, saying “right now, I think it is in our interest” to stay in the deal. U.S. President Donald Trump has repeatedly threatened to pull out of the deal, officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). In his new […]

Rex Tillerson was fired as secretary of State on Tuesday, ending a tumultuous tenure as America’s top diplomat that was marked by a series of public disagreements with his boss — President Donald Trump. Trump said he will nominate CIA Director Mike Pompeo to replace the former Exxon Mobil chief executive and Deputy CIA Director […]

The Iranian Ambassador to IAEA told journalists on Wed. that Iran’s implementation of its JCPOA commitments could continue only if all other parties to the deal continue to implement their commitments fully and unconditionally. “We restated the stances and positions of the Islamic Republic of Iran at the meeting of the IAEA Board of Governors […]

 Dimitri Alexandrakis, the Ambassador of Greece to Iran told the local media that the European Union backs the nuclear agreement of Tehran and Sextet. “The European Union agrees with the JCPOA because this pact is necessary for the region,” said Dimitri Alexandrakis, the Ambassador of Greece to Iran. The Greek diplomat made the remarks on […]

Following a meeting with French counterpart in Tehran on Monday, Iran’s foreign minister tweeted that he had asked the Europeans to compel US to abide by JCPOA. Mohammad Javad Zarif wrote in his latest tweet “in meeting today, told [French] FM: EU should compel US to abide by JCPOA rather than trying to appease it […]

Stressing that Iran continues to fully implement its commitments under JCPOA, IAEA Director General Yukiya Amano has warned “if the JCPOA were to fail, it would be a great loss for nuclear verification and for multilateralism.” Yukiya Amano made the remarks in his introductory statement to the meeting of IAEA’s Board of Governors in Vienna Austria, […]

Spokesman for the Iranian Administration Mohammad Baqer Nobakht said the country would remain committed to the 2015 nuclear deal, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), only if its national interests are served by the deal. “If our national interests are not served by the deal, we will not stay in the agreement […]

TEHRAN – Majid Takht-Ravanchi, the current deputy director of the presidential chief of staff for political affairs who was on Iran’s nuclear negotiating team with great powers, has said that the games played by U.S. and Europe regarding the nuclear deal will not benefit Iran, urging European countries to take a clear stance on the […]

Professor Hossein Askari, an expert on Saudi Arabia who also teaches international business at the George Washington University, strongly believes that Iran should not agree to “any modification” of its nuclear deal. In a recent interview with the Tehran Times, Professor Askari said “for any accord to be modified, you need the agreement of all […]

TEHRAN – The U.S. attacks on the nuclear deal and the dual approach of Europeans towards the JCPOA are the prime pieces of a puzzle perniciously played by Washington and the European Troika. During the Munich Security Conference, this moves against the nuclear deal even grew more dangerous. Trumps’ U.S. National Security Adviser, Herbert McMaster, […]