A commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) says the United States has airdropped weapons and food supplies to Daesh in Iraq and Syria as the Takfiri terrorist group was facing defeat. The second-in-command of the IRGC’s Ground Force, Brigadier General Abdullah Araqi, said on Wednesday that the US had provided logistic support to Daesh […]

TEHRAN – A senior Iranian politician warned against Washington’s continued hostilities toward Damascus and said the US is seeking to break up eastern and northeastern parts of the war-torn country. Speaking at a meeting with Syrian Ambassador to Tehran Adnan Mahmoud on Tuesday, Ali Akbar Velayati, a top adviser to Leader of the Islamic Revolution […]

Austria’s permanent representative to the United Nations (UN) says the Iran nuclear deal will continue to stand even if the United States, which is a party to the agreement, withdraws from it. In an exclusive interview with Iran’s IRNA news agency, which was published on Tuesday, Jan Kickert denounced as “wrong and unjustifiable” a possible move […]

German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel has called on the United States to engage in dialogue with Iran over its nuclear program amid growing concerns about the future of the nuclear agreement Iran clinched with the P5+1 group of countries more than two years ago. In a statement on Sunday, Gabriel welcomed US Secretary of State Rex […]

US Secretary of Health and Human Services Tom Price has been forced to resign amid a scandal over using costly private jets for his government travel. “Price offered his resignation earlier today and the president accepted,” White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said in a statement on Friday. “The President intends to designate Don […]

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says US President Donald Trump’s position on the landmark nuclear deal signed between Iran and the P5+1 group of countries prove that any talks with Washington will bear no fruits. “The stance [adopted by] the current US administration on the JCPOA (nuclear deal, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan […]

TEHRAN – Senior MP Alaeddin Boroujerdi emphasized that prolonging suspension of Iran’s nuclear sanctions was a JCPOA requirement it cannot signal a change in Tramp’s approach to the nuclear deal. Head of the Parliament’s National Security and Foreign Policy Commission, Alaeddin Boroujerdi, touched upon prolongation of the Iranian nuclear sanctions suspension for another 120 days […]

TEHRAN – If the US backs out of the 2015 nuclear deal between Tehran and world powers, “no one will trust America again,” Iran’s president, Hassan Rouhani, told NBC News. The move would also leave Iran free to resume work on expanding its nuclear capabilities, Rouhani said in the interview, which took place shortly before […]

TEHRAN – The US will deploy more than 3,000 additional troops to Afghanistan, Defense Secretary James Mattis said. Mattis told reporters at the Pentagon on Monday that most of the new forces are already on their way to Afghanistan or have orders to deploy. “Frankly I haven’t signed the last of the orders right now. […]

South Korean President Moon Jae-in and his American counterpart, Donald Trump, have reportedly agreed to exert extra pressure on North Korea. South Korea’s presidential office spokesman Park Soo-hyun said on Sunday that Moon and Trump had in a Sunday telephone conversation strongly condemned the latest missile launch by North Korea and agreed to work with […]