Anadolu Agency - Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday that sanctions against Iran have no chance of succeeding, the Kremlin said. In a phone conversation with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Putin urged preservation of the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, also known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), which the Russian side ...

FNA - Eight MPs from Germanys far-left Left (Die Linke) party announced Thursday they had filed a criminal complaint against Chancellor Angela Merkel and her ministers, accusing them of complicity in the US assassination of Iranian anti-terror commander Qassem Soleimani. The complaint is focused on the US Air Force's massive Ramstein Base in Western ...

Reuters - German Chancellor Angela Merkel warned against prematurely scrapping an international nuclear deal with Iran, saying that it would be wrong to abandon an imperfect deal with nothing better in place. Speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, she also said that Europe had an interest in preventing conflict in Libya escalating, since ...

Reuters - German chancellor Angela Merkel on Saturday repeated a call for all parties to respect the Iranian nuclear accord, despite Irans decision to intensify its enrichment of uranium and moves by the United States to impose economic sanctions. Under a deal brokered in 2015, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), Iran agreed ...

Reuters - Europe has not yet taken a decision on how to respond to Irans decision to resume enriching uranium, which is restrained under its non-proliferation deal, but every step Tehran takes makes things more difficult, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said. Iran said on Thursday it had resumed uranium enrichment at its underground Fordow nuclear ...

IRNA - Iranian President Hassan Rouhani holds separate meetings with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Spanish PM Pedro Snchez, Swiss President Ueli Maurer, British PM Boris Johnson and Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Lfven on the sidelines of the 74th session of the United Nations General Assembly in NY, the US, September,...

President.ir - President of the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Chancellor of Germany discussed the necessary measures for saving the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) and stressed development of relations in bilateral, regional and international fields. President Hassan Rouhani and the German Chancellor Angela Merkel had a meeting Tuesday ...

MNA German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Tuesday called for a return to Iran nuclear deal as the only way to defuse tensions in the Middle East. We believe that the deal to stop Iran from acquiring military nuclear capabilities is a building block we need to get back to, Merkel said during a news conference with Jordans King Abdullah, according to ...

Press TV - German Chancellor Angela Merkel says Europe has made its choice regarding the historic 2015 nuclear agreement with Iran which the United States has been attempting to sabotage and will honor the agreement. Officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), the deal was originally struck between Iran on the one side ...

MNA German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Monday G7 leaders had taken a big step forward in their efforts to avoid an escalation of tensions between Iran and the US. All the G7 leaders agreed not only that Iran should not have nuclear weapons but also that negotiations were the right way to achieve that goal, Merkel said on Monday while speaking ...

MNA German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Wednesday she believed the idea of a European naval mission in the Strait of Hormuz would be discussed again at informal meetings of European foreign and defense ministers in Finland later this month. I think the question of a European mission will be discussed there again because this discussion has ...

MNA German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Saturday that the world should work together for peaceful resolution of the dispute between the United States and Iran and warned against isolationism. "I say that [a political solution] should not just be a hope, but it should be worked towards with utmost seriousness," Merkel added. The conflict ...

Euronews - Angela Merkel has met with US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to discuss Iran and a host of other issues. Pompeo began a five-day European trip on Friday with a delayed visit to Berlin, where he was expected to press Germany to boost its military spending, avoid dealings with China's technology giant Huawei and reconsider a pipeline project ...

TASS - The European countries, parties to the Iran nuclear deal, share interests with Russia and China, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said in an interview with Germanys newspaper Sueddeutsche Zeitung published on Wednesday "Germany, France and Britain are taking a different approach from the US on the question of the Iran agreement," she said ...

AP The Latest on developments in the Persian Gulf region and elsewhere in Mideast amid heightened tensions between the U.S. and Iran (all times local): 4:30 p.m. The German government has expressed concern about the tensions in the Mideast between the U.S. and Iran, warning of a military escalation and saying it supports all measures for a peaceful ...

CBS News - Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was supposed to meet with German Chancellor Angela Merkel Tuesday afternoon, but the State Department canceled the trip over "pressing issues." The department did not initially disclose where he was going next, though it was later revealed that Pompeo visited Baghdad, Iraq. According to the State Department ...

MNA German Chancellor Angela Merkel said at Munich Security Conference that there are tactical differences between Europe and the United States on Iran, but their ultimate goal is the same. She added that the US withdrawal from the only existing agreement with Iran, that is the 2015 nuclear deal (JCPOA), will have no effect on containing what she ...

Tasnim - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Monday they both hoped for a prompt and peaceful solution to Venezuela's leadership crisis, with Merkel saying Germany recognized opposition leader Juan Guaido as the nation's interim president. Merkel, on a two-day visit to Japan, echoed many European nations ...

Iranian Diplomacy | Hanif Ghaffari: Protests are still going on in France. France's protests have reached other countries such as Italy, Spain, Belgium, the Netherlands and Hungary, and this has doubled the concerns of European authorities over EU's future. The combination of security, political, social and economic crises in the European Union (as ...

Press TV - The leaders of Russia, Germany, Franceand Turkey have gathered in the Turkish city of Istanbul to try and find a lasting political solution to the conflict in Syria. Russian President Vladimir Putin, French President Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan are due to take part in four-...