Iran

Leader urges conservation, warns of ramifications of environment destruction

Mar 05, 2021 13:06

Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has highlighted the need to conserve the environment, saying the destruction of the environment would ruin the future of mankind.
Zarif slams US persistence of failed ‘maximum pressure’ policy even amid COVID-19

Mar 05, 2021 18:23

Zarif slams US persistence of failed ‘maximum pressure’ policy even amid COVID-19
Russia says ready to help revive Iran deal in its original form

Mar 05, 2021 18:09

Russia’s FM says a window of opportunity for saving a 2015 multilateral nuclear deal signed between Iran and major world powers remains open, expressing hope that all sides will return to the full implementation of the agreement in its original form.
Tehran hails ‘constructive’ co-op with IAEA, warns of efforts to exploit watchdog as ‘bargaining chip’

Mar 05, 2021 17:20

Iran’s ambassador to international organizations in Vienna has warned of efforts to abuse the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) as a “bargaining chip”, saying such moves would undermine the existing goodwill between Iran and the IAEA.
Iran: IRGC foils hijack attempt on Ahvaz-Mashhad flight

Mar 05, 2021 13:16

The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) has thwarted a plot to hijack a plane en route from the southwestern city of Ahvaz to Mashhad in northeast Iran, the IRGC says.
Tehran sues European firms for aiding Saddam’s chemical attacks against Iranians: Judiciary

Mar 05, 2021 10:31

The head of the Iranian Judiciary’s High Council for Human Rights says Iran has filed lawsuits in international courts against several European companies that provided chemical materials to former Iraqi dictator Saddam’s regime, who used chemical weapons against Iranians in the 1980s war.
Zarif flatly rejects JCPOA renegotiation, urges mutual implementation of deal

Mar 05, 2021 08:17

Iran’s foreign minister has once again categorically ruled out any renegotiation of the nuclear deal clinched by Iran and six world powers in 2015, urging all parties to get down to implementing the deal, instead of just posturing.
Iran takes delivery of third batch of Russia’s Sputnik V vaccines

Mar 05, 2021 05:28

Iranian customs authorities have taken delivery of a third batch of Russia’s Sputnik V vaccines as the country moves ahead with a nation-wide immunization drive against the coronavirus pandemic.
President Rouhani: US must lift all sanctions, pledges to reciprocate ‘action with action’

Mar 04, 2021 20:15

President Hassan Rouhani said the United States has violated the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran and other world powers and it is Washington that should take practical steps to rejoin the deal and lift all sanctions it has re-imposed on Tehran.
Anti-Iran resolution dropped at IAEA, Iran calls on nuclear deal parties to ensure JCPOA full implementation

Mar 04, 2021 15:54

Foreign Ministry spokesman said the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has dropped its previous decision to adopt an anti-Iran resolution over the country’s reduction of commitments under a landmark nuclear deal with world powers after the United States unilaterally withdrew from the accord and re-imposed the “toughest ever” sanctions on Tehran.