India, on Friday, reiterated its stance to the United States regarding the importance of strategic relations with Iran. This was conveyed by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman to her American counterpart, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin. “From our side we explained the Indian position, particularly the need to maintain land-based access to Afghanistan. We explained the need […]

Guardian Council spokesman Abbas Ali Kadkhodaie said on Saturday that the failure of US sanctions on Iran contributes to Trump's further depression.

TEHRAN (Iran News) – The spokesman for Iran’s Foreign Ministry said the country’s embassy in Kuala Lumpur is doing its best to solve banking issues in Malaysia considered for Iranian nationals by some financial institutions.  Abbas Mousavi made the remarks on Thursday in reaction to reports denoting that banks in Malaysia were closing the accounts […]

TEHRAN (Iran News) – Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarid said Friday the United States’ new sanctions targeting the Iranian construction sector shows the failure of Washington’s maximum pressure campaign against the Islamic Republic. “Subjecting construction workers to #EconomicTerrorism only manifests maximum failure of maximum pressure,” Zarif tweeted. “US can sanction every man, woman & child […]

TEHRAN (Iran News) – Iran’s Foreign Ministry Spokesman Abbas Mousavi called on the Malaysian government to cooperate to resolve the problems of Iranian individuals residing in the Southeast Asian country whose bank accounts are being closed due to the US sanctions. Asked about the reports of banking restrictions imposed on Iranians in Malaysia, Mousavi told […]

TEHRAN (Iran News) – Foreign Minister Mohammad Zarif said on Sunday that the new U.S. regulations is even targeting Iran medicine imports. “Now, U.S. Treasury is targeting not merely food but also our imports of medicine,” Zarif tweeted. In a move that the Treasury Department claimed would ease the shipment of food and medicine into […]

Iran's Finance and Economic Affairs Minister Farhad Dejpasand has said that the country's economic indicators show that economic conditions have improved a year after re-imposition of the unilateral US sanctions.

TEHRAN (Iran News) – Iranian Parliament speaker’s special adviser on international affairs said the US, Israel and Saudi Arabia are taking advantage of Iraqis’ actual demands. Hossein Amir-Abdollahian made the remark in a tweet on Friday, in reference to the recent spate of unrest in Iraq. “The United States, Israel and Saudi Arabia, by taking […]

TEHRAN (Iran News) – Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister for Political Affairs Seyyed Abbas Araghchi said on Thursday that remaining signatories to the JCPOA should know that they have limited time for saving the deal. “The path of diplomacy is still open but it is getting more narrow by the day; remaining signatories to the JCPOA […]

TEHRAN (Iran News) – European companies are looking to resume ties with Iranian petrochemical companies, the CEO of Tondgouyan Petrochemical Company said. Referring to Iran petchem companies’ participation in Germany’s K-Show, the largest exhibition in the plastics and polymer industries in the world, Seyyed Reza Ghasemi Shahri said, “The Persian Gulf Petrochemical Industries Company has […]