Tag Archives: Iran

Washington, U.S. | Xinhua | U.S. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan on Sunday downplayed the impact of Iran’s president-elect on Tehran’s decision over the nuclear deal. The Iranian Interior Ministry announced on Saturday that Judiciary Chief Ebrahim Raisi won Iran’s presidential race by securing over 60 percent of votes. Raisi, seen …

Tehran, Iran | XINHUA |  Ebrahim Raisi, the principlist presidential hopeful, has a big lead in Iran’s presidential election, partial results announced by the Interior Ministry showed on Saturday. Iranian Deputy Interior Minister Jamal Orf told a press conference that 28.6 million Iranians out of some 59 million eligible voters …

Washington, US | XINHUA | U.S. Department of State said on Thursday that it welcomes the EU-led virtual meeting of the Joint Commission of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) scheduled on Friday. “We obviously welcome this as a positive step,” State Department spokesman Ned Price told reporters during …

Washington under former President Donald Trump withdrew from the 2015 nuclear agreement in 2018 and escalated sanctions on Iran Tehran, Iran | Xinhua | Dragging feet by the U.S. administration in lifting anti-Iran sanctions would be detrimental to the 2015 Iranian nuclear deal, also known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of …

Beijing, China | Xinhua | China always believes that the United States’ return to the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) is the only correct way to break the Iran nuclear deadlock, a Foreign Ministry spokesperson said on Thursday. Spokesperson Hua Chunying made the remarks at a press briefing when asked …

Tehran, Iran | Xinhua | Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani reiterated on Wednesday the Islamic Republic’s “definite” determination not to produce or store weapons of mass destruction (WMDs), including nuclear weapons, official news agency IRNA reported. “As we have said many times, in our country’s defense program, there is no place for …

Tehran, Iran | Xinhua | The Iranian Foreign Ministry on Thursday dismissed as “baseless” U.S. President Donald Trump’s allegation that Iran was behind a recent attack on the U.S. Embassy in Iraq. “Such repeated, baseless, and fabricated allegations can be assessed in the framework of conventional White House projections aimed at …

Tehran, Iran | Xinhua | Iranian Foreign Ministry on Sunday called for cessation of the U.S. economic pressures against the country. The U.S. administration “must make up for its past measures and stop its economic war against the Islamic Republic,” Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh told Iran’s state TV. “We …

Tehran, Iran | Xinhua | Iran sanctioned U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Matthew Tueller on Friday, Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman said. Two other U.S. officials were also blacklisted by Iran, Saeed Khatibzadeh tweeted on Friday, noting that the blacklisted U.S. officials were all involved in the assassination of Qassem Soleimani, the …

Tehran, Iran | Xinhua | A United Nations-imposed arms embargo on Iran ended officially on Sunday in line with a 2015 landmark nuclear deal, the Iranian foreign ministry said. “As of today, all restrictions on the transfer of arms, related activities and financial services to and from the Islamic Republic of …