AFP - Iran on Monday rejected a US court order for Tehran to pay $180 million in damages to a Washington Post reporter for jailing him on espionage charges. Jason Rezaian spent 544 days in an Iranian prison before he was released in January 2016 in exchange for seven Iranians held in the United States. On Friday, a US district court judge ordered ...

Press TV - A US federal judge has ordered Tehran to pay $180 million over the 18-month detention of a Washington Post correspondent found guilty of espionage and gathering classified information in Iran. Columbia District Court judge Richard J. Leon awarded $150 million jointly toJason Rezaian, along with his brother and mother, according to a Friday ...

The Washington Post | Jason Rezaian: This weekend, new U.S. sanctions on Irans economywill go into effect. The Trump administration promises they will be the most punitive in history. The ones that President Barack Obama placed on Iranin 2012were already among the stiffest by any country in modern times. I lived in Tehran then and reported extensively ...

TEHRAN, Oct. 06 (MNA) A Principlist parliamentarian has criticized Jason Rezaians filing of a lawsuit for his alleged unjust arrest as a pretext to for a new wave of stealing nations assets in the US. Hossein Naghavi Hosseini, the spokesperson of Parliaments National Security and Foreign Policy Commission, told reporters on Thursday that the ...

A federal judge has challenged the U.S. government's move to drop charges against an Iranian man accused of sanctions violations as part of a U.S. prisoner trade agreed with Iran last month. Federal prosecutors filed a motion on Jan. 16 to drop the case against Alireza Moazami Goudarzi, an Iranian man accused in 2012 of trying to buy aircraft parts ...

IFP has taken a look at the front pages of Iran newspapers on Saturday and picked headlines from 26 of them. IFP has simply translated the headlines and does not vouch for their accuracy. Abrar: 1- Total, Airbus chiefs meet with Rouhani 2- Frozen cash in Treasury before Iranian yearend 3- Iran, France presidents say determined to open new ...

President Obama on Sunday described the historic nuclear accord with Iran as proof that a smart, patient and disciplined approach to the world can yield better results than war. The declaration followed the lifting of many of the harshest economic sanctions against Iran and confirmation that Iranian authorities had freed imprisoned Washington Post ...

Washington (AFP) - The Washington Post welcomed Iran's release of its reporter Jason Rezaian on Saturday, in a message from its publisher Frederick Ryan. "We couldn't be happier to hear the news that Jason Rezaian has been released from Evin Prison. Once we receive more details and can confirm Jason has safely left Iran, we will have more to share,...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- U.S. and Iranian officials have reported that the Iranian government has released several dual-national prisoners. The Associated Press has confirmed that three of them were Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaian, former U.S. Marine Amir Hekmati and pastor Saeed Abedini. There were conflicting reports about the other prisoners. A ...

Tehran, January 16, The Iran Project - Iran releases four Iranian-American prisoners in a prisoner swap deal, Tehran's general prosecutor announced on Saturday. T he prosecutor general of Tehran, Abbas Jafari Dolatabadi told reporters that the decision to release the prisoners have been taken based on the countrys general interests. The Washington ...

Tehran, Jan 11, IRNA Deputy Culture Minister for Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Hossein Nooshabadi said on Monday that it is the Judiciary that has to decide about the fate of the Washington Post journalist Jason Rezaian. Nooshabadi made the remarks speaking to IRNA in response to a call by a group of US media outlets for the release of the detained ...

Unnamed Americans have contacted Iran for a deal to swap Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaian, convicted and jailed in Iran on spying charges, for other unspecified detainees, according to a senior Iranian official quoted on Sunday. "Some Americans contact us sometimes, asking us to exchange him with other detainees, but the sentence has not been ...

Washington Post correspondent Jason Rezaian who has been jailed in Iran after being charged with espionage was allowed to see his family during a Christmas Day visit, the newspaper said. MOSCOW (Sputnik) The journalists mother visited him along with Yegi, Jasons wife, who is an Iranian citizen. "This is the first time in the year that I have been ...

Tehran, Nov 22, IRNA - Judiciary Spokesman Gholamhossein Mohseni Ejei said on Sunday that the court has issued a verdict on Jason Rezaeian but it has not been officially acknowledged to him. Speaking to reporters in his 81st news conference for the case, he said Rezaeian has been sentenced to prison term on espionage charges but details of the verdict ...

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) --Mohammad Javad Zarif provided no further details during a security conference Saturday to discuss Syria as well as Iran's future role in the region following a landmark nuclear agreement reached with world powers in July. Rezaian, who has been jailed for over a year on charges of espionage, was recently convicted by a Revolutionary ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- Jason Rezaian, an Iranian-American national who is held by Iran for espionage charges, has been imprisoned for his attempts to help the US Senate to advance its regime change plots in Iran, a senior Iranian legislator said citing an IRGC report on Rezaian's case. "Based on a report by the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) intelligence ...

In an interview in New York withMorning Editionhost Steve Inskeep, the Iranian president, Hassan Rouhani, discusses the landmark nuclear deal, prospects for resolving the crisis in Syria and issues of freedom of expression in Iran. Inskeep's questions to Rouhani were translated from English to Farsi, and Rouhani's responses were translated from ...

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said in an interview with a U.S. television network that aired on Sunday that Tehran and Washington "have taken the first steps" toward decreasing their enmity due to a landmark nuclear accord. But Rouhani told CBS' "60 Minutes" program that despite the nuclear agreement, "the distance, the disagreements, the lack ...

Trump said that if elected in 2016, he would successfully free four Americans serving jail sentences in Iran. WASHINGTON (Sputnik) Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump told a crowd at the US Capitol that if elected in 2016, he would successfully free four Americans serving jail sentences in Iran in less than three months before he was ...

IFP has taken a look at the front pages of newspapers on Wednesday and picked headlines from 18 of them. IFP has simply translated the headlines and does not vouch for their accuracy. The meetings of the Austrian president with the Supreme Leader and President Rouhani, and the comments of officials on the review of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of ...