Pompeo shows reaction to Iran’s precondition for talks with US
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo showed reaction to Iran’s precondition for talks with the US.
Sherman: ‘I met Zarif but not with Kerry and Moniz’
Wendy Sherman, the former senior U.S. nuclear negotiator with Iran, said on Saturday she had met Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif alone, stressing such meetings are not aimed to undermine U.S. policy. “Sec. Pompeo tried to distract from Manafort and gain points with president by attacking me today. Facts were wrong, message was wrong. […]
Kerry says Trump risking war by exiting nuclear deal
TEHRAN – Former U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry savaged President Trump on Wednesday, saying that he is undermining U.S. leadership in the world with catastrophic consequences for human rights, global stability, and American power—and that he risks a needless war by withdrawing from the Iran nuclear deal. “If your house is burning down, do […]
John Kerry: Trump proved Ayatollah Khamenei was right
TEHRAN – Former U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry has sharply criticized the Trump administration’s Iran policy, saying Trump has confirmed everything that Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei feared about [trusting] America. In an interview with Switzerland’s Neue Zurcher Zeitung newspaper, Kerry said, “Trump’s exit is surely the biggest strategic mistake since the Iraq war […]
Iran categorically dismisses claim of Kharrazi-Kerry meeting
A diplomat of Iranian embassy in Paris issued a statement on Sunday dismissing the claim that there has been a meeting between former Iranian FM Kharrazi and former US Secretary of State John Kerry. Iranian Embassy’s Press Attaché in Paris, Hamid Moradkhani, asserted that the news of a secret meeting between Iranian former FM Kamal […]
Foreign ministry Spox confirms Zarif-Kerry meeting
Bahram Ghasemi, the Spokesman of Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, confirmed that Iranian FM Zarif met US former Secretary of State Kerry in last week in Munich. “Such meetings are held in the framework of an active and comprehensive diplomacy and as a part of policies to negotiate for preserving the maximum of national interests,” […]
Kerry: It is ‘absolutely critical’ to make sure nuclear deal will survive
Former U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Sunday that it is “absolutely critical” to make sure that the 2015 nuclear deal, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, will survive. U.S. President Donald Trump has been making the harshest attacks on the international agreement. In a statement on January 12, Trump gave […]
Israel, Egypt pushed U.S. to bomb Iran before nuclear deal, Kerry says
Former American Secretary of State John Kerry has said both Israel and Egypt pushed the United States to “bomb Iran” before the 2015 nuclear deal was struck. Kerry defended the deal during a forum in Washington, where he said that a number of kings and foreign presidents told the U.S. that bombing was the only […]
Kerry: JCPOA had no spirit to be violated
TEHRAN – Former U.S. secretary of state John Kerry has condemned President Donald Trump’s decision to decertify the 2015 nuclear deal between Tehran and world powers, stressing that the agreement is working as expected. “Important to note the simple things – the Iran nuclear deal is working, doing precisely what it was set up to […]