President Ebrahim Raisi outlines the threefold foundations of a potential agreement between Iran and the P4+1 group of states. Speaking on the phone with his French counterpart Emanuel Macron on Saturday, Raisi identified the "basic foundations" as "sanction removal, verifiability, and credible guarantees." "Whatever effort on the part of the ...

Press TV - Former US secretary of state Hillary Clinton has criticized the administration of President Donald Trump for abandoning the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, saying it is in Americas interest to return to the multinational agreement. During an Atlantic Council Front Page event broadcast on Monday, Clinton gave her views on how the next US administration ...

MNA Gordon Sondland, the US representative to the European Union, has in fact insulted and humiliated the Europeans by calling their special mechanism for trade with Iran, officially called INSTEX, a paper tiger. "EU's new proposal for trade with the Islamic Republic of Iran is nothing, but a paper tiger," Radio Farda quoted Sondland as saying ...

IRNA Iran's commitment to its obligations under the nuclear deal it signed with international parties has been echoed several times in the international nuclear watchdog reports, a US anti-proliferation organization said. The latest Quarterly report of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) explicitly said that Iran is meeting its obligations ...

shana - Iranian Minister of Petroleum Bijan Zangeneh said despite the fact that among the oil-exporting countries in the region, Iran's budget was the least dependent on petrodollars, the macroeconomic policy of the country is to reduce the dependence of the budget on oil revenues." According to ICANA, Mr. Zangeneh, said the administration was seeking ...

Aljazeera - There is a fight over energy in Iraq between the United States and Iran. Iraq relies on Iranian gas for nearly half of its energy - gas that is now subject to US sanctions on Iran. The Iraqi government originally obtained a 45-day sanctions waiver from the US, but that waiver is set to expire next week. Iraq is particularly sensitive ...

December 16, The Iran Project Irans Rouhani says OPEC decision to cut output was defeat for US meddling; Iran can expand range of ballistic missiles: Guards commander;Iran says it recently tested a ballistic missile; Zarif: Irans missile program not prohibited by UNSC resolution; Leader receives families of martyrs, shrine defenders; UN Security Council ...

IRNA - Franois Delattre, Ambassador of France to the United Nations, says all sides should pay the price of killing Iran nuclear deal also known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). Addressing the United Nations Security Council, Delattre referred to the JCPOA as the most outstanding achievement in non-proliferation field. There ...

IRNA - Irans Deputy Foreign Minister for Political Affairs Abbas Araghchi says Iran and the European Union are in close touch on SPV (Special Purpose Vehicle for trade) mechanism and hope that it would be announced soon. He expressed these views in an exclusive interview with the Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA) during his Pakistans visit. The ...

FP | ESFANDYAR BATMANGHELIDJ,AXEL HELLMAN:If the EU gives its special purpose vehicle for Iran trade a humanitarian focus, the Trump administration wont be able to stop it withouttrampling longstanding U.S. exemptions. It has been nearly seven months since the United States withdrew from the Iran nuclear deal. As sanctions begin to bite, Iranian ...

IRNA - Iran's foreign ministry spokesman stated that Iran's neighbors are under pressure in the first phase and in other phase other countries, even the European Union and China, so that they can't cooperate with Iran. In reply to a question that the Iraqi government has banned some Iranian banks and announced they do not pay the dollar to Iran,...

The Jordan Times |Amin Saikal: The sanctions imposed on Iran by the United States earlier this month are designed to isolate the country economically, and to force either regime change or a dramatic shift in the regimes behaviour. American officials have called the newest sanctions, the second tranche since August, the toughest ever on Iran. And yet,...

(Reuters) - The timing and scope of sanctions relief are among crucial sticking points as Iran and the six major world powers resume talks in Vienna on Wednesday to discuss a nuclear agreement aimed at curbing Tehran's nuclear activities by June 30. The exact timing of the start of the talks has not been made public. After a tentative deal between ...

EU countries' foreign ministers will meet in Luxembourg on Monday to discuss the situations in Libya and Yemen, EU relations with Latin America and the Caribbean. LUXEMBOURG (Sputnik) EU countries' foreign ministers will discuss inLuxembourg onMonday the proposals formaintaining security inLibya and the course ofnuclear talks withIran, aswell ...

US Republican presidential hopefuls have ratcheted up their rhetoric against Tehran and denounced the Obama administrations efforts to reach an agreement with Iran over its nuclear energy program, with Senator Marco Rubio calling on Washington to bomb Irans nuclear infrastructure. Rubio, the first-term senator from Florida a candidate for the 2016 ...

A high-ranking Indian delegation has arrived in Tehran to hold talks over new oil contractwith Iran. The delegation is headed by Shri Ashutosh Jindal , the director of IndianMinistry of Petroleum & Natural Gas. Officials from ONGC Videsh and Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemicals Ltd are said to bepart of the delegation. The Indian officials ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) A senior Iranian commander vehemently rejected the idea of foreign access to the country's military sites. Deputy Chief of Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces Brigadier General Massoud Jazayeri said attempts to portray inspection of Iran's military sites as necessary are an act of psychological operation waged by the US officials ...

Tehran, April 13, IRNA A senior oil ministry official said Iran is planning active presence in world markets once the sanctions are removed. Gholamreza Moini Fard told IRNA on Monday that the removal of sanctions will provide the Iranian oil industry to get more access to latest technical and scientific achievements. He stressed that Iran ...

(Reuters) - As the United States andIrancome closer to a historic nuclear deal, many U.S. states are likely to stick with their own sanctions onIranthat could complicate any warming of relations between the long-time foes. In a little known aspect of Iran's international isolation, around two dozen states have enacted measures punishing companies ...

As world powers move toward ending Irans international isolation, bargain-hunting stock investors are circling. The primary focus for many of them, though, isnt Iranian companies themselves, but rather multinationals that are located in nearby countries as well as those that have kept ties with the Islamic republic during sanctions. Their business,...