The head of Iran’s Plan and Budget Organization highlighted efforts to reduce the country’s reliance on oil revenues and said the national budget of the next Persian calendar year (March 2020 – March 2021) will not be dependent on oil incomes at all.

Iran's Atomic Energy Organization Chief Ali Akbar Salehi says Iran will soon introduce a set of 30 modern IR-6 centrifuges within the next 2 or 3 weeks as the latest development in its nuclear program.

Iran’s envoy to international organizations in Vienna made it clear that Tehran’s move to reduce commitments to the 2015 nuclear deal has not had any impact on the course of cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency on implementing the Additional Protocol.

Tehran (Iran News) – “Iran has prepared the required plans for the fourth step of scaling down its JCPOA commitments,” Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Abbas Mousavi said on Tuesday. “Europeans have not been successful to meet their JCPOA commitments and have tied all of their decisions and measure to Trump’s confirmation,” he said, adding, “Iran has its own […]

China’s state oil firm has pulled out of a $5bn deal to develop a portion of Iran’s massive offshore natural gas field, the Islamic republic’s oil minister said on Sunday, an agreement from which France’s Total SA earlier withdrew over US sanctions. The South Pars field deal, struck in the wake of Iran’s 2015 nuclear […]

TEHRAN – Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has said that the Europeans are not legally in a position to quit the 2015 nuclear deal, formally known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action. “From the legal point of view, they have no right to do so,” he told ICANA in an interview published on […]

Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said on Sunday that the Europeans are not in a position to pull out of the nuclear deal known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), adding that they are not legally allowed to do so.

Tehran (Iran News) – Spokesperson for the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) Behrouz Kamalvandi warned that Tehran will continue to scale back its commitments to the 2015 nuclear deal should the other signatories fail to fulfill their obligations. In an address to the opening of a course on nuclear rights, held in Tehran on […]

TEHRAN (Iran News) – Iran and the United States have one month to get to the negotiating table given the high tensions in the region, France’s foreign minister has said. French President Emmanuel Macron attempted, but failed to broker talks between US President Donald Trump and Iranian President Hassan Rouhani in New York last week, […]

Reducing JCPOA Commitments TEHRAN (Iran News) – Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei said Iran will continue to reduce its commitments to the 2015 nuclear deal until it gets the desirable results, stressing that the US policy of maximum pressure on the Islamic Republic has ended in failure. In comments at a […]