Fresh US divide on Iran emerges over expiring nuclear waivers
Bloomberg | Nick Wadhams: A fresh divide is emerging between some Trump administration officials and hard-line opponents of Iran in the Senate…
Tag Archives: US policy toward Iran
Spokesman blames US for stopping aid to flood-stricken Iranians
FNA – Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi blasted the US for preventing humanitarian aid from reaching the flooded areas in Iran,…
Build an Iranian sanctions wall
The Wall Street Journal | Mark Dubowitz: Democrats are talking about re-entering the 2015 Iran nuclear deal if they defeat President Trump…
Schlumberger workers sought by US on Iran, Sudan sanctions
Bloomberg – The U.S. government has interviewed one Schlumberger Ltd. worker and wants access to four other current and former employees as…
US to designate elite Iranian force as terrorist organization
Reuters – The United States is expected to designate Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards Corps a foreign terrorist organization, three U.S. officials told…
Zarif: Iranians never submit to pressure
IRNA – Iranian Foreign Minister referred to the US failed policies against Iran, saying Iran’s people will never submit to pressures. ‘@realdonaldtrump…
Rouhani: World disapproving US strategies
IRNA – President Hassan Rouhani said on Friday that no one in world is approving the American policies because the present US…
US Hook suffering from anti-Iran sadism: Senior official
IRNA – Spokesman for the Iranian Foreign Ministry described Thursday the US State Department’s special representative for Iran Brian Hook as a…
US assumes can return to Iran by intensifying pressure: Rouhani
MNA – President Hassan Rouhani said Mon. that the United States wrongly assumes that by imposing the most severe sanctions on Iran,…
Top US diplomat to visit Mideast next week to push anti-Iran message
Press TV – US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will start a five-day tour of the Middle East next week, where he…
Zarif: Iranians not surprised by terror attacks
IRNA – Iranian foreign minister in a message referred to Iranians’ awareness of the consequences of bigotry and hatred, saying they are…
US officials offered my friend cash to take down Tehran’s power grid
Medium l Sharmine Narwani: It took a country-wide power outage in Venezuela, whispers of a cyberattack, and smug tweets from US officials…
US trying to fuel West Asian tensions by unfounded accusations: FM spox
MNA – The Iranian Foreign Ministry rebuked the United States’ anti-Iran policies, saying that the US statesmen are trying to fuel tensions…
Lawyers for Huawei due in US court in Iran sanctions case
AP — Lawyers for the Chinese electronics giant Huawei (HWAH’-way) are due in court in a U.S. case charging the company with…
US aims to cut Iran oil exports to under 1 million bpd from May – sources
Reuters | Humeyra Pamuk: The United States aims to cut Iran’s crude exports by about 20 percent to below 1 million barrels per…
Pompeo calls on oil industry to support US foreign policy agenda
Reuters – U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo urged the oil industry on Tuesday to work with the Trump administration to promote…
US to set aside special share to counter Iran in 2020 budget
MNA –The US Deputy Secretary of State John J. Sullivan has said a special share will be allocated to counter Iran in…
How Trump can forge a new path towards diplomacy with Iran
Middle East Eye | Seyed Hossein Mousavian: In a statement issued on 20 February, more than 50 pro-diplomacy organisations representing millions of American…
‘Qazvin-Rasht railway is in stark contrast to Trump walls’: Rouhani
IRNA – Iranian president has boasted the country’s new railroad that connects South and East Asia to Central Asia and Europe, saying…
Codepink co-founder raps US senators’ support for anti-Iran terrorist group
FNA – The co-founder of Pinkcode, an anti-war NGO based in the US, blasted members of the Congress for supporting the anti-Iran…
What would new sanctions on Iran accomplish?
International Policy Digest | Fuad Suleiman: The UN Security Council has been turned into an instrument for punishing weak states even when…
As US pushes to isolate Iran, Rouhani fights to keep his top diplomat
The Wall Street Journal | Sune Engel Rasmussen and Farnaz Fassihi: Iranian President Hassan Rouhani scrambled Tuesday to avert a political crisis…
US policy towards Iran to remain unchanged despite Zarif resignation – Pompeo
Sputnik – Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in a statement said that US policy towards Tehran will not change even if Iranian…
US seeks to create excuse for direct confrontation with Iran: Former Sweden FM
IRNA – US demand of EU to stop its efforts to prevent the JCPOA from collapsing completely is tantamount to wishing that…
Unilateralism always a major US approach: Iran’s Zarif
Tasnim – Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif decried the Trump administration’s foreign policy and said for American officials, unilateralism is always…
All US anti-Iran measures have ended in failure, Syrian minister says
Tasnim – Syrian Minister of Awqaf (Endowment) Mohammed Abdul-Sattar Al Sayed highlighted the US government’s failed policy toward the Iranian nation and…
Iranian Speaker urges countries to resist US bullying
IRNA – Iran expects the parties of the 2015 nuclear deal to remain committed and resist the bullying of the US, the…
Rouhani says Iran-US tensions are at ‘a maximum’
Reuters – Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said on Wednesday that tensions between Tehran and Washington were at “a maximum” rarely seen in…
America, not its allies, is undermining action on Iran
The Washington Post | Letters to the Editor: Vice President Pence had it backward in the Feb. 15 news article “Pence accuses U.S.…
Pelosi: Trump administration ‘Completely Wrong’ on Iran
Tasnim – Speaker of the US House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi described the Trump administration’s general approach toward Iran, including Washington’s withdrawal…
FM Zarif slams White House policies toward JCPOA, Europe
IRNA – Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif criticized US administration policies as regard walking away from Iran nuclear deal and its…
Weekly report: FM Zarif warns it would be ‘suicidal’ to go to war with Iran
February 17, The Iran Project – Zarif visit to Lebanon and meeting with senior officials; Iranians rally to support Islamic Revolution on…
The United States and Iran are in a quantum war
Bourse and Bazaar | Esfandyar Batmanghelidj: It took just under an hour for staff at Israel’s Government Press Office to delete a…
The US held a global summit to isolate Iran. America isolated itself instead.
Vox | Alex Ward: A US-led conference in Warsaw this week that was intended to isolate Iran has ended up isolating America instead…
Merkel says EU, US have same ultimate goal toward Iran
MNA – German Chancellor Angela Merkel said at Munich Security Conference that there are tactical differences between Europe and the United States…
In Warsaw meeting; US, allies accuse Iran of meddling in Yemen, ignore Saudi aggression
MNA – The Foreign Ministers of Saudi Arabia, the UAE, the UK and the US, in a joint declaration on Wednesday, accused…
European powers to present cool front at Warsaw summit
The Guardian | Patrick Wintour: Lack of participation at Middle East event reflects anger over US policy on Iran and Syria Key European…
US blackmailing countries for financial, security affairs: SCFRI
IRNA- Head of Iran’s Strategic Council on Foreign Relations (SCFRI) Kamal Kharrazi said that today the US government is managing to financially…
Ex-Iran ambassador: EU and US have no disagreements over Iran
Iranian Diplomacy – A former high-ranking Iranian diplomat believes: “In a situation where Trump seeks to create a gap between Iran and…
Weekly report: Ayatollah Khamenei: US ’embodiment of evil, violence
February 10, The Iran Project – Parliament approves Namaki as Health Minister; Iran equips long-range missile with guided warheads; Araghchi leaves for…