TEHRAN - Senior Iranian Commander Major General Qasem Soleimani says the U.S. wants to drag Iran to the negotiating table with economic pressure, but sitting for talks with the enemy under the current circumstances means “submission”.

The Iranian Foreign Ministry’s spokesman said Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif’s proposal to exchange prisoners with the United States is serious, but it was nothing new.

TEHRAN - President Hassan Rouhani described U.S. sanctions as ‘crime against humanity’ and called on the Judiciary Branch of the country to take legal action against U.S. officials for imposing medicine and food sanctions against the Iranian nation.

The United States and India on Wednesday agreed to strengthen security and civil nuclear cooperation, including building six US nuclear power plants in India, the two countries said in a joint statement.

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruled on Wednesday that Iran can proceed with its legal claim to recover $2 billions in frozen assets in the United States. The ruling by the ICJ relates to a complaint filed by Tehran in June 2016 for the confiscation of two billion dollars of the property of the central […]

The United States blocked a UN Security Council draft resolution condemning Israel’s decision to expel an international observer group tasked with protecting Palestinians in the West Bank city of al-Khalil (Hebron). Kuwait and Indonesia presented the motion on Wednesday after a closed-door UNSC meeting on the Tel Aviv regime’s recent decision to suspend the mandate […]

On the delicate and critical relations between the United States and Russia, we interviewed Professor Claudio Moffa, professor of History of International Relations at the Faculty of Political Sciences of the University of Teramo. Q: Shall we think of Russia collusion case as a mere political plot to destroy Trump or Russian interference in the […]

The United States has not provided Russia with specific proof to substantiate its claims that the ground-launched SSC-8 cruise missile (Russian designation 9M729) violated the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov told Sputnik. “We fulfill the contract in full, without exemptions, without exceptions, without deviations from the requirements. Our 9M729 system has never been tested for a […]

Hundreds of Honduran migrants began the long trek north on Monday, part of new US-bound caravan that hopes to succeed even as a previous wave of Central Americans were unable to quickly enter the United States. Central American migrant caravans have become a flashpoint in the debate over US immigration policy, as President Donald Trump […]

The United States will continue its policy of harsh sanctions against Russia, US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said. “I would just comment that this administration has been tougher on Russia and has done more Russian sanctions than before, we will continue to do this,” he told reporters after a closed-door briefing for members of the […]