Weekly report: Trump’s offer for direct talks with Iranian leadership
August 5, The Iran Project – Trump: I am ready to meet with Iran ‘any time they want to’ – with no…
August 5, The Iran Project – Trump: I am ready to meet with Iran ‘any time they want to’ – with no…
MNA – Some media outlets have cited anonymous sources about the possibility of President Rouhani’s meeting with his US counterpart Donald Trump,…
Politico – President Donald Trump on Saturday said any meeting with the Iranian regime is “up to them.” “Iran, and it’s economy,…
FNA – Iran’s Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi dismissed negotiations with Washington under sanctions and pressures, and underlined the need for the…
MNA – Iranian parliamentary official Hossein Amir-Abdollahian said Iran has no problem with talks per se, rather it has issues with US…
IFP – Senior Iranian officials say the country may enter into talks with the US provided that Washington offers an apology for…
MNA – US President in his latest remarks expressed hope that political trend between Iran and US would go well. This is…
Tasnim – A minister in the administration of former Iranian president Mohammad Khatami dismissed the idea of negotiations with the US as…
MNA – Secretary of Iran’s Expediency Council Mohsen Rezaei referred to numerous encounters of US President with the world, saying that “Trump…
Tasnim – Tehran’s Provisional Friday Prayers Leader Ayatollah Kazem Seddiqi highlighted the Trump administration’s reneging on its international pledges, including commitments under…
IFP – A former Iranian minister says President Hassan Rouhani must hold the meeting with his American counterpart Donald Trump in Tehran…
The Guardian | Jake Nevins: Comics, including Stephen Colbert, Trevor Noah, and Jimmy Kimmel, discussed Trump’s evolving position on collusion, Iran, and North…
Express.co.uk – ISRAEL’s intelligence community was reported to be “struck dumb for two days” after President Donald Trump suggested on Monday to…
IRNA – Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said on Thursday that he has no plans for meeting US Secretary of State…
Al-Monitor – “It’s good for the country, good for them, good for us and good for the world. No preconditions. If they…
IFP – Remarks by US President Donald Trump that he is ready for unconditional talks with Iran have received mixed responses in…
IRNA – The prominent law expert from Geneva’s Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies urged the US to ban duress in…
Iran Front Page – IFP has taken a look at the front pages of Iranian newspapers on Wednesday, August 1, 2018, and…
Sputnik – Following comments by US President Donald Trump about wanting to open a new dialogue with Tehran, an Iranian scholar told…
ISNA – An advisor to Iranian President Hassan Rouhani stressed that the condition to negotiate with US is to stop an economic…
Reuters | Bozorgmehr Sharafedin: Senior Iranian officials and military commanders on Tuesday rejected U.S. President Donald Trump’s offer of talks without preconditions…
The Wall Street Journal |Asa Fitch and Aresu Eqbali: Domestic pressure on Iranian President Hassan Rouhani to take a more hard-line stance toward…
Sputnik – US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo agrees with the statement made by President Donald Trump about being open to meeting…
IFP – Iran’s Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi says Tehran believes in dialogue and logic, but the basic requirements for holding negotiation…
Press TV – US President Donald Trump has claimed that talks with Iran are imminent and could happen “pretty soon,” a day…
IRNA – US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will not meet with his Iranian counterpart during a meeting of Southeast Asian nations…
Press TV – Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says the US should blame itself for ending talks with Iran when it left the nuclear…
IFP – Chief-Commander of Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Major General Mohammad-Ali Jafari has dismissed US President Donald Trump’s call for dialogue…
The Wall Street Journal | Michael C. Bender: ‘If they want to meet, I’ll meet,’ the president said, adding he’s willing to…
Daily look at Iran’s late-breaking news and upcoming events: Iran’s Rouhani says it’s up to Europe to save nuclear deal Iranian…
Iran Front Page – IFP has taken a look at the front pages of Iranian newspapers on Tuesday, July 31, 2018, and…
MNA – Ali Akbar Nategh Nouri, a member of the Expediency Council, said Iran should not without preamble reject US President Trump’s…
Reuters – Iran does not trust the United States as a negotiating partner, the interior minister in Tehran said on Tuesday, a…
Reuters – The head of Iran’s Strategic Council on Foreign Relations said on Tuesday that Tehran saw no value in U.S. President…
Reuters – It is not a good time for Iran to negotiate with the United States, a senior Iranian parliamentarian said on…
MNA – An adviser to President Rouhani Hamid Aboutalebi said “respecting the Iranian nation’s rights, reducing hostilities and returning to the nuclear…
CNN – President Donald Trump’s comment that he’s willing to meet with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani with no preconditions shows diplomatic over-confidence, a Democratic…
CNBC – President Donald Trump on Monday said that he would be willing to meet with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani “any time they want to,” and…
MNA – Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Ghasemi said the US hostile measures against Iran have quashed any possibility of talks between Tehran…
Iranian Diplomacy – One week after the heated exchange between Hassan Rouhani and Donald Trump, the issue is still debated by the Iranian commentariat.…