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Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said the country’s Wednesday decision to suspend some of its commitments under the 2015 nuclear deal between Tehran and world powers is within the framework of the agreement, adding that European parties to the deal have “narrowing window” to reverse this. “On May 8 ...

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov held presser with Iranian counterpart Mohammad Javad Zarif in Moscow on Wednesday. The talks come as Iran announced its intention to suspend several commitments within the nuclear accord. Relatively, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani warned that after a 60-day period Iran will phase out more commitments ...

Iran has informed the five remaining signatories to the 2015 nuclear deal of its decision to suspend the implementation of some of its commitments under the multinational agreement, exactly one year after the United States unilaterally abandoned the international document. The ambassadors of the countries remaining in the deal — France, ...

This photo shows Iran’s most advanced homemade destroyer, Sahand, inducted into its naval fleet at the port of Bandar Abbas in December 2018. Parliament speaker Ali Larijani says Iran no longer holds value for Europe’s demands as European governments have let it down in fighting hostile US policies, pledging that ...

It is technically impossible to replace the lost share of Iran in the global oil markets, an Iranian deputy minister said Monday. In comments at meeting of World Petroleum Council (WPC) experts in Tehran, deputy of Iran’s oil minister for international and mercantile affairs, Amir Hossein Zamaninia, dismissed the notion ...

Qureshi on Saturday briefed the media on steps taken by the country to strengthen security along its porous border with Iran a day before the Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan is due to arrive in Iran for a long-awaited visit. He told journalists in a press conference in Islamabad that ...

A yellow vest protester gestures in front of a newsagent set alight during clashes with riot police forces on the Champs-Elysees in Paris on March 16, 2019. (Photo by AFP) French police are on high alert for a flare-up in “yellow vest” protests Saturday after pledges of prodigal donations to restore ...

Syrian Deputy Foreign Minister Faisal Mekdad praised Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif’s recent visit to Damascus as “very successful” and said it indicated the two countries’ common stances on the threats posed against the Middle East region. “The trip was very successful and useful and important meetings were held ...

Iranian Intelligence Minister Mahmoud Alavi speaks before weekly Friday prayers sermons in the Iranian capital of Tehran on April 19, 2019. (Photo by IRNA) Iran has identified 290 CIA agents across different countries, forcing the US to form a special committee to reassess its cloak-and-dagger operations, Intelligence Minister Mahmoud Alavi says.  “CIA operatives in ...

Sudanese demonstrators gather during a sit-in protest outside the defense ministry in the capital Khartoum, April 18, 2019. (Photo by Reuters) A week after the fall of Sudan’s long-time President Omar al-Bashir, a huge crowd has converged in the streets of the capital, demanding the country’s transitional military council hand ...