The Guardian | Patrick Wintour: Lawyers for dual-national tell Foreign Office a personal visit to Tehran is long overdue The Foreign Office has rejected a plea from Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe for the British ambassador to Iran to visit her in an act of solidarity before Tehran decides whether to return her to jail. Zaghari-Ratcliffes lawyers told ...

Press TV - Irans foreign minister has called on London and the European Union to defy Washingtons anti-Iran sanctions amid the outbreak of the novel coronavirus. In a Monday phone conversation with his British counterpart Dominic Raab, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif denounced the US illegal and unilateral sanctions against Iran as ...

Press TV - Reports in the Iranian media say security forces have arrested the British ambassador to the country as he was trying to foment unrest in the streets of the capital Tehran. The semi-official Tasnim news agency said late on Saturday that Robert Macaire had been briefly detained during a protest in front of the Amir Kabir University in ...

Tasnim Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said the US government will be responsible for any escalation of tensions and insecurity in the region following the assassination of Iranian commander Lt. General Qassem Soleimani. Germanys Minister for Foreign Affairs Heiko Maas and British Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs Dominic Raab ...

The Guardian - Downing Street says such military action would break international treaties in implicit rebuke to Trump Britains foreign secretary has said that targeting cultural sites in Iran would breach international warfare conventions in an implicit rebuke to Donald Trump for threatening to bomb protected heritage sites. Dominic Raab did ...

The Guardian - Foreign secretary says UK sympathetic to Washington and focused on restoring calm Dominic Raab has said Britain is on the same page as the US in relation to Fridays assassination of the Iranian general Qassem Suleimani. Amid continuing questions about the legal justification for US actions, Raab said the UK government was sympathetic ...

MNA In a tweet on Wednesday, British foreign secretary Dominic Raab accused Iran of taking steps which have endangered future of the JCPOA. Good to talk to Le Drian and Heiko Mass this evening to discuss Iran, Hong Kong and Libya, he wrote on twitter. UK, France, and Germany remain committed to the nuclear deal, but Iran has taken steps that ...

IRNA Britain's Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab in a statement on Friday expressed deep concern over attacks on Iran's consulates in Najaf and Karbala, holy cities in Iraq. "I am also deeply concerned by attacks against Iranian consulates in Najaf and Karbala. Diplomatic premises must not be a target of violence," he said, as quoted by UK Foreign ...

IRNA British Secretary of State Dominic Raab in a statement on Tuesday called on Iran to return to 2015 nuclear deal and fulfill its commitments fully. He claimed that Iran's recent move clearly run counter to the nuclear deal and is a threat for their national security. Raab further noted that they are seeking a way for holding constructive ...

MNA � Dominic Raab, British Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and Iranian FM Mohammad Javad Zarif held a phone conversation on Tuesday. The two sides conferred on mutual relation between Iran and the UK, JCPOA-related issues, ongoing regional affairs, in particular, the Yemeni crisis.

Sputnik - The relations between the UK and Iran have been under strain after the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps detained a UK-flagged oil tanker earlier this month. The seizure comes against the backdrop of the detainment of an Iranian-flagged vessel off Gibraltar. UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab on Sunday rejected the idea of a tanker exchange ...