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Iran on Friday threatened to block the Strait of Hormuz, a vital artery for oil shipments from the Middle East. The warning comes in response to the US, which is trying to cut off Iranian crude exports. From Moscow, Supreme leader’s senior adviser for international affairs, Ali Akbar Velayati said …

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says all the remaining signatories to a 2015 landmark nuclear agreement have political will to stand up to the United States’ move to withdraw from the deal. Zarif made the remarks while addressing reporters in the Austrian capital Vienna on Friday following a meeting …

South Korea on Sunday rejected reports that it had stopped importing oil and condensate from Iran. Iran’s media quoted an announcement by South Korea’s Embassy in Tehran as saying that imports from the Islamic Republic still continued. On Friday, Reuters reported that Seoul was no longer lifting Iran’s oil and …

A Bangladeshi resident and a member of Saudi Arabia’s security forces have been killed in an attack on a security checkpoint in the town of Buraydah in the Qassim province. “A security checkpoint on the Buraydah-Tarfiyah road in Qassim region came under fire from three terrorists riding in a vehicle …

Iran’s Petroleum Minister Bijan Zanganeh says there has been no major change in the country’s production and export of crude oil despite recent threats by US President Donald Trump to halt the oil trade activities of the Islamic Republic.   Zanganeh added that Iran had already devised a plan to …

TEHRAN, Jul. 08 (MNA) – Chairman of Iran’s Parliament National Security and Foreign Policy Commission Alaeddin Boroujerdi said “President Rouhani’s recent remarks about Iranian and regional oil exports are a new strategy against Trump’s bullying.” President Rouhani’s stance helped achieve greater unity and solidarity, and given that the revolutionary spirit …

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani says Tehran will continue cooperation with Europe in their multilateral nuclear deal if the remaining parties to the landmark accord can meet Tehran’s expectations during their upcoming ministerial meeting. Foreign ministers of Iran and the five remaining parties to the 2015 nuclear deal, known as the Joint …

Iran’s IRGC Al-Quds Force Commander, Major General Qasem Soleimani praised his country’s president’s stance on the country’s oil exports and described his remarks as wise, valuable and powerful. In a letter to President Hassan Rouhani, Soleimnai called Rouhani a ‘dear brother’, and  addressed him by saying: “What you said about …

The missile force of the army and the popular committees said , on Tuesday , that the warplanes of aggression can only target civilians and will not be able to target ballistic missile platforms. This came after the missile force unveiling , for the first time , about the platforms …

TEHRAN, Jul. 03 (MNA) – At a joint presser with his Swiss counterpart, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani dismissed as ‘nonsense’ the threats made by US officials to reduce Iranian oil exports to zero. “They will never be able to carry out this threat,” said Iranian President Hassan Rouhani at a press …