UN call for peace talks raises hopes for ending Yemen crisis
MNA – Iranian Ambassador to London Hamid Baeidinjead said the call by the UN Special Envoy for Yemen for immediate peace talks…
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Shabbir Hassanally: UN a mercenary outfit for United States
Iranian Diplomacy – Political analyst Shabbir Hassanally says the UN has become “a means to legitimize the corruption and excesses of the…
US, EU sanctions cause suffering for Syrians: Damascus envoy to UN
Press TV – Syria’s UN Ambassador Bashar al-Jaafari has strongly denounced sanctions imposed on his country by the United States and the European…
UN identifies five countries as victims of terrorism in 2017
IRNA – Head of the UN Information Center in Tehran Maria Dotsenko said on Sunday that in the year 2017 about 3/4th…
Iran raps UN expert’s report for relying on BBC news
MNA – Iran’s delegate at the UN Third Committee criticized the UN expert on freedom of opinion and expression for having trusted…
Syria writes to UN about US ‘war crime’ after airstrike in Dayr al-Zawr
Press TV – Syria has written to the United Nations, urging a transparent and impartial probe into the recent massacre of scores…
Iran urges intl. community to resist against violation of Palestinian rights
MNA – Permanent Representative of Iran to the United Nations Gholamali Khoshroo said that the world must not let US bullying and…
US must withdraw from Syria, stop supporting terrorism: Iran’s deputy UN envoy
Press TV – Iran’s deputy ambassador to the UN says the United States should stop supporting terrorism in Syria and end its…
Iran: UN HR mechanisms politicized, double standard
IRNA – Iran’s representative to the Third Committee of the United Nations says the UN human rights mechanisms are politicized and based…
Weekly report: World must confront US threats to global order, Iran tells UN
October 14, The Iran Project – New ambassador of South Africa meets Zarif; IRGC military drill around Shaho Mountain; Larijani departs for Antalya…
UN experts urge Saudi Arabia to swiftly release women’s rights activists
Press TV – Saudi Arabia must “immediately and unconditionally” release all women it has arrested and imprisoned on charges relating to their…
Iran UN envoy urges int’l swift reaction to US threats
IRNA – Iran’s UN envoy has called US withdrawal from the Iran Deal and re-imposition of sanctions against the country a serious…
Iran envoy advises US to give up unilateralism
ّIFP – Permanent Representative of Iran to the United Nations says the US envoy to the UN thought she could change the…
Nikki Haley resigns from UN post
IRNA – The United States Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley resigned on Tuesday, and the US President Donald Trump accepted…
Al-Jaafari: Presence of foreign forces in Syria illegitimate
IRNA – Syria’s permanent representative to the UN, Dr. Bashar al-Jaafari affirmed on Monday that the presence of foreign forces on Syrian…
Iran wins UN non-communicable diseases prevention award
IRNA – The United Nations Interagency Task Force on the Prevention and Control of Non-communicable Diseases (UNIATF) conferred Iran and some other…
UN Chief condemns Iran terror strike
IRNA – The United Nations Secretary General António Guterres in a statement on Saturday denounced the terrorist attack in the Iranian southwestern…
Iran asks UN to condemn Israeli threats, supervise its nuclear program
Reuters – Iran has asked the United Nations to condemn Israeli threats against Tehran and to bring Israel’s nuclear program under its…
Saudi war machine revs up as UN envoy visits Yemen
Press TV – Saudi Arabia has intensified its invasion of Yemen as the United Nations special envoy for the violence-scarred country visits…
UN Chief: Idlib must not be transformed into a ‘Bloodbath’
Sputnik – United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told reporters Tuesday at UN headquarters that an all-out assault on Idlib “would unleash a…
Iran playing constructive role in bringing peace to Syria
IRNA – Iran is playing a constructive role in bringing peace and prosperity to Syria, the Permanent Representative of the Islamic Republic…
VP orders state bodies to pay membership fees to intl. organizations
MNA – First Vice-President Es’hagh Jahangiri has ordered relevant government organizations to pay Iran’s membership fees in international bodies such as the…
Damascus has sovereign right for Idlib operation: Syrian UN envoy
Press TV – Syria’s Ambassador to the United Nations Bashar al-Jaafari says military operations against terrorist factions in the militant-held province of…
Iran: Growing unilateralism threatening world peace
Tasnim – Iran’s Ambassador to the United Nations Gholam Ali Khoshroo decried the growing resort to unilateralism by “a certain power” as…
Senior officials from Russia, Turkey and Iran to gather in Geneva in new peace efforts for Syria
Xinhua — In a new UN-led effort to move forward the political process to end the Syrian conflict, senior officials from Russia,…
Int’l relations must be ruled by law not power: Iran UN envoy
IRNA — Permanent Representative of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the United Nations Gholamali Khoshroo criticized the US administration for threatening…
‘UN was obliged to punish US for sanctions against Iran, but did nothing’
RT – Unilateral US sanctions against Iran resemble an act of war and it was the UN’s obligation to interfere, but it…
US envoy to UN questions Palestinian right of return to Israel-occupied homeland
Press TV – The US ambassador to the United Nations has questioned the right of Palestinian refugees to return to their occupied…
UN offers condolences on tragic deaths of Iranian environmentalists
MNA – UN Environment Executive Director and Under-Secretary of the United Nations Erik Solheim has offered condolences on the deaths of Iranian…
UN invites US, allies for Syria talks in Geneva next month
Press TV – United Nations Special Envoy Staffan de Mistura has invited the United States and six other countries to take part…
Boroujerdi: UN failed to do its duty to settle Syrian crisis
MNA – Senior parliamentary official Alaeddin Boroujerdi says the United Nations has failed to do its duty to settle the seven-year long…
UN invites Iran, Russia, Turkey to Syria talks in Geneva next month
Press TV – United Nations Special Envoy Staffan de Mistura has invited Iran, Russia and Turkey to talks due to be held…
Iran sanctions are unjust and harmful, says UN expert warning against generalised economic war
United Nations Human Rights Office Of The High Commissioner – Sanctions must be just, and must not lead to the suffering of…
US unilateral sanctions against Iran illegitimate
IRNA – The UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and Unilateral Coercive Measures called the United States’ reimposition of unilateral sanctions against…
Scholars: UN, Security Council fully responsible for Saudi-led aggression on Yemen
FNA – Yemeni scholars and religious figures strongly denounced a recent deadly airstrike by Saudi warplanes on a bus carrying schoolchildren in…
Israel slams UN chief’s calls to boost protection of Palestinians
Press TV – The Israeli regime has rejected calls by the United Nations chief to boost protection of Palestinians against persisting Israeli…
Former UN secretary general Kofi Annan dies at 80
MNA – Ghanaian diplomat, who served as seventh secretary general of United Nations between 1997 and 2006, dies aged 80. Kofi Annan,…
Nuclear deal demonstrates Iran’s commitment to UN charter principles
IFP – Iran’s new envoy and Permanent Representative to the United Nations Office at Geneva says the 2015 nuclear deal proved Tehran…
UN says Saudi attack on Yemeni school bus ‘tragic, unjustifiable’
Press TV – The UN has said that there is no justification for Saudi Arabia’s latest massacre in Yemen which claimed the…
Syria, UN delegation discuss redeployment of peacekeepers to occupied Golan
Press TV – A delegation of UN commanders has visited Damascus for talks with Syrian Defense Minister Ali Abdullah Ayyoub on the…