Press TV - A senior Iranian diplomat says the United States does not dare to attack Iran as it knows well that the Islamic Republic stands fully prepared to defend itself against any aggression. We are completely ready to defend the country and the Americans are aware of this;therefore, I believe that they do not dare to attack us and that is why ...

MNA Democratic 2020 frontrunner Joe Biden criticized Trumps erratic approach toward Iran, voicing concern that his would-be competitor President Donald Trump could accidentally lead the US into a war with Iran. The former vice president took aim at the current US president during a campaign fundraiser on Sunday afternoon at Connecticut Governor ...

CNN - Iran's foreign minister has raised the specter of "all-out war" in the event of US or Saudi military strikes and that Saudi Arabia would have to fight "to the last American soldier." Javad Zarif told CNN that Iran hoped to avoid conflict, adding that the country was willing to talk to its regional rivals Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates....

Tasnim US President Donald Trump said on Monday that he would certainly like to avoid" war with Iran despite claiming that Iran was responsible for recent attacks on Saudi Arabian Aramco oil facilities. Without providing evidence, Trump told reporters that Iran was responsible for the Yemeni attacks that targeted the Saudi oil giant, according ...

MNA Head of Iran's Passive Defense Organization Brigadier General Gholamreza Jalali said on Monday that today, Iran is at war with the US in five strategic and sensitive layers and in all of them has the upper hand. Noting that the most significant layer is the economic one, he said Americans claim that they are running the most modern economic ...

MNA Deputy Coordinator of the Iranian Army Rear Admiral Habibollah Sayyari reiterated the Islamic Republics stance against any war, noting, however, that the country enjoys a great deterrence power to fend off any possible threat. We have never been after [any] war and will never seek one, Rear Admiral Sayyari told a gathering of war ...

MNA The head of Iran's Strategic Council on Foreign Relations Kamal Kharrazi said on Monday that US is well aware of consequences of any war against Iran and so it doesnt seek military confrontation. America doesnt seek military confrontation with Iran because they understand its consequences. They know that if a war erupts, it will not be easy ...

AlJazeera - As the United States maintains its "maximum pressure" campaign against Iran, tension is on the rise in the Gulf, raising concerns over a full-blown military escalation. While the US has beefed up its military presence in the region, the administration of President Donald Trump has been seeking allies for an international naval coalition ...

Tehran Times - Twenty-eight lawmakers from both the Republican and Democratic parties are pushing legislation to ban the use of funds for military action against Iran without congressional authorization, according to an internal letter obtained by Foreign Policy. Similar legislation has failed before, but lawmakers are hoping they can fold this ...

Tehran Times - Its said that Donald Trump is likely to win re-election in 2020 if he avoids war with Iran, keeps up the tariff and political pressure on China, and if the Democrats nominate a neoliberal like Joe Biden or even Kamala Harris. Conversely, if the U.S. attacks Iran militarily (the U.S. and the world are going to regret it mightily), ...

MNA Iranian Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani warned of devastating consequences of any possible war against Iran. While holding a press conference here in Tehran on Tuesday on the occasion of national Journalist Day, Larijani partly touched upon regional and international developments, including tensions in the Persian Gulf. It may be the case ...

Reuters - War with Iran is the mother of all wars, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said on Tuesday in a speech broadcast live on state TV, warning once again that shipping might not be safe in the Strait of Hormuz oil waterway. Tensions have risen between Iran and the West since last year when the United States pulled out of an international agreement ...

Washington Examiner |Daniel DePetris: U.S. foreign policy should be designed with one constituency in mind: the American public. The public expects policymakers and lawmakers in Washington to always keep their interests, not global abstractions, front-of-mind and do what is best for the countrys national security. When decisions are made that unnecessarily ...

France 24 - US strategy on Iran is confused and Washington seems increasingly short of options to avoid escalation, with President Donald Trump saying that the choice between war and diplomacy "could go either way." "The Trump administration is facing a fork in the road with respect to its own policy," said Suzanne Maloney, a senior fellow at the ...

The Guardian | Mohammad Khatami: Twenty-one years ago, on my recommendation, the UN general assembly named 2001 the year of dialogue among civilisations, and signalled its commitment to peace and its rejection of war and violence. The Iranian people, despite their own historic grievances and troubled history, opened a hopeful new chapter of engagement ...

National Interest | Connor Sutherland: Reading Ilan Goldenberg recently described for Foreign Affairs what a war with Iran would look like. His analysis was informative, vivid and harrowing. But while his attention was focused primarily on the Middle Eastern theatre, I was wondering how such a skirmish would play out here in the United States. Specifically,...

The National Interest - On Thursday, National InterestEditor Jacob Heilbrunn interviewed Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammed Javad Zarif in New York at the Ambassadors residence on the current state of U.S.-Iran relations. The transcript has been lightly edited for readability. Jacob Heilbrunn: With the American shooting down of an Iranian drone in ...

Press TV - Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says Iran will never start a war, but will defend its territory against any act of aggression. In an interview with CNN in New York on Wednesday, Zarif said the hawkish administration of US President Donald Trump is already waging an economic war against Irans civilian population. There is a war ...

Press TV - While warning against a potential military attack targeting Iran, Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says the warlike officials around US President Donald Trump will not succeed in enabling such a course of action against the Islamic Republic. People know that Iran is a big, proud countryWe will not take a military attack lightly," ...

MNA US Vice President Mike Pence says that Washington doesn't seek war with Iran, reiterating earlier US statements claiming that the country wants to hold negotiations with Tehran. US Vice President Mike Pence made the remarks in a speech to the advocacy group Christians United for Israel on 8 July, according to Sputnik news agency. At the ...