Tehran, Iran | Xinhua | Ebrahim Raisi was sworn in on Thursday as the new president of Iran, a country now standing at a juncture with critical domestic and global challenges ahead. Talks between Iran and other related parties, which started in April in Vienna to revive the Joint Comprehensive Plan …
Read More »Iran’s president says “main agreement” reached in Vienna talks to revive nuclear deal
Tehran, Iran | THE INDEPENDENT | Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani said on Thursday that the “main agreement” to revive the 2015 nuclear deal has already been reached in the Vienna talks, and Iran’s counterparts have agreed on the need to lift “all main sanctions.” “The other parties … agree that …
Read More »Rouhani: U.S. anti-Iran sanctions shattered
Tehran, Iran | Xinhua | Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said on Wednesday that the regime of U.S. anti-Iran sanctions has been shattered, official IRNA news agency reported. “As the head of the (Iranian) government, I declare to the people that the sanctions have been broken and if we are united, the sanctions …
Read More »U.S. should return to JCPOA to resolve Iran impasse
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 …
Read More »Iran’s president reiterates nuclear weapons have no place in defense program
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 …
Read More »U.S. announces Iran sanctions as its unilateral attempt at UN widely ignored
Washington, US | XINHUA | The United States on Monday announced fresh sanctions and measures against entities and individuals related to Iranian nuclear and conventional weapons programs, a move to support its self-claimed UN snapback sanctions widely ignored by the international community. President Donald Trump said that he had issued an …
Read More »Int’l community rejects U.S. unilateral announcement on return of UN sanctions on Iran
Beijing, China | XINHUA | The international community has denounced the unilateral announcement made by the United States to resume United Nations (UN) sanctions on Iran, saying the attempt is illegitimate and that the United States has no right to impose them. Zhang Jun, China’s permanent representative to the UN, on …
Read More »Russia denies resumption of UN sanctions against Iran
Moscow, US | XINHUA | The United Nations (UN) Security Council did not take any action that would lead to the resumption of the previous sanctions against Iran, the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement Sunday. The statement came shortly after U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo claimed that “the …
Read More »Rouhani hails Iran’s “historic” success against U.S. attempts to restore UN sanctions
Tehran, Iran | XINHUA | Iranian President Hassan Rouhani celebrated on Wednesday the Iranian diplomacy’s “historic” success against the U.S. efforts at the UN Security Council to restore UN sanctions on Iran. “I don’t know of any case in history where the U.S. submitted a draft resolution in the UN …
Read More »Iran says UN dismissal of return of anti-Iran sanctions shows U.S. “global isolation”
Tehran, Iran | XINHUA | The rejection of U.S. bid in the UN Security Council to take actions to return sanctions against Iran showed U.S.”global isolation,” Iran’s Permanent Mission to the United Nations said in a statement, according to Tasnim news agency on Wednesday. “Today’s deliberations in the UN Security Council …
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