UK’s Minister of State for the Middle East, Alistair Burt, in an exclusive interview with Mehr News, reaffirmed his country’s support to the 2015 Iran nuclear deal following the US’ unilateral withdrawal from the agreement, saying UK, and the European Union, are doing all they can to provide the mechanism by which they can continue […]

 The Head of Iran’s Foreign Policy Strategic Council Kamal Kharrazi said the three European signatories to the 2015 nuclear deal have so far failed to take the necessary measures to ensure Iran’s benefits from the agreement. The Iranian official made the remarks in a meeting with visiting British Minister of State for the Middle East and […]

Chairman of the National Security and Foreign Policy Commission of the Iranian Parliament says that other signatories to JCPOA need to make more efforts to fulfill their commitments to the deal. Heshmatollah Falahatpisheh, the Chairman of the National Security and Foreign Policy Commission of the Iranian Parliament held a meeting with the visiting UK Minister of State for […]

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said in a tweet on Thu. shortly after the IAEA report on Iran’s full compliance with the JCPOA that honoring the deal is not Iran’s only option. “If preserving JCPOA is the goal, then there is no escape from mustering the courage to comply with commitment to normalize Iran’s economic […]

TEHRAN – Olli Heinonen, the former deputy director general for safeguards at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), tells to Tehran Times that civil nuclear cooperation is an important element of the JCPOA. Heinonen, now a senior advisor on science and non-proliferation at Foundation for Defense of Democracies, also believes that “I can see the […]

Former Foreign Minister and current Head of Iran’s Foreign Policy Strategic Council, Kamal Kharrazi, said Europe’s prestige and reputation makes necessary the resistance against US pressures over JCPOA. Speaking to a German delegation from Berghof Foundation late on Monday, Kharrazi touched upon the Syrian issue, saying “Astana Peace Process has been quite efficient and greatly helped to reduce violence […]

TEHRAN – Behrooz Kamalvandi, spokesman for the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI), has said that replacing the U.S. with Britain in redesigning the Arak heavy water reactor was not decided by Iran. “Previously, China and the U.S. were supposed to deal with the technical issues related to the reactor, but Britain accepted the responsibility […]

Ambassador of the Republic of Korea to Iran said that his country will continue buying Iran’s oil based on prior agreements. Ryu Jeong-Hyun said that despite US withdrawal from Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), Republic of Korea keeps on buying oil from Islamic Republic of Iran. He made the remarks in a Sunday meeting […]

In a Sunday meeting in Iranian Parliament’s National Security and Foreign Policy Commission the lawsuit relating to US JCPOA withdrawal and re-imposing sanctions on Iran in The Hague was discussed. Iran filed a lawsuit against the United States earlier in July in the International Court of Justice (ICJ) alleging that the Washington’s withdrawal from the […]

 First Vice President Es’hagh Jahangiri said Iran will continue cooperation with five remaining signatories to the JCPOA, adding “we must plan based on ‘neither war, nor negotiation’ policy of the Leader of Islamic Revolution. Five remaining signatories vowed and reassured us to compensate for US exit from the nuclear deal; our sources at the Foreign […]