President.ir - President stressed that Iran is willing to have close relations with all regional countries, adding, "We believe that division in the Islamic community is not beneficial to anyone and we completely welcome Pakistan's efforts for promoting regional peace and stability in this regard". President Hassan Rouhani had a meeting with the ...

The Guardian | Alistair Burt: The UK should use its diplomatic reach to help promote a rare opportunity for improvement in US-Iran relations Even by the standards of the Middle East it was a remarkable week. You have to deal with what presents itself in the region there is little point in rehearsing justification for any action by reference to ...

RT - The escalating situation in the region following the assassination of a top Iranian military commander has given the yellow metal its highest rates in seven years, and raised oil to prices last seen in mid-2019. Gold, which is considered a safe haven investment amid political and economic turmoil, gained around 1.5 percent on Monday. At one ...

The Wall Street Journal | Isabel Coles: Iran vows hard revenge; U.S. to deploy some 3,500 troops to Kuwait President Trumps decision to order an airstrike that killed a powerful Iranian military leader on Iraqi soil reverberated through the Middle East on Friday, with Tehran vowing to avenge the death of Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani and its allies in ...

The Wall Street Journal - Brent crude oil is up 0.8% at $66.52 a barrel and WTI futures are up 0.6% at $51.43 a barrel after Brent closed out its strongest year since 2016. DNB Markets Helge Martinsen cites Thursdays gains as coming after a rise in geopolitical tension in the Middle East over the holiday period, with U.S. airstrikes prompting angry ...

FNA - Iranian Defense Minister Brigadier General Amir Hatami lashed out at Western governments for their destructive role in the Middle East, adding that former colonialists are seeking to return to the region. Powers from beyond the region and their profit-seeking interference are the main elements behind instability and insecurity in the region,...

Press TV - President Hassan Rouhani says the US and its allies have failed in their attempts to portray Israel as a normal country just like others in the region thanks to the vigilance in the Muslim world, praising Iran as the flag-bearer of struggles against the occupying entity. We should not doubt that the Islamic Republic and the Iranian nation ...

Tasnim China's Special Envoy on Middle East Affairs Zhai Jun expressed his countrys willingness to maintain contact with Iran in order to contribute to regional peace and stability. In a meeting with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif in Tehran on Tuesday, the Chinese special envoy hailed the strategic relations between China and Iran....

FNA - Meddling by the trans-regional powers and their regional allies is the main obstacle to the resolution of problems and crises in the Middle East, member of the Iranian parliament's National Security and Foreign Policy Commission Seyed Hossein Naqavi Hosseini said. If Americans and the Zionists dont interfere and independent countries hold ...

Press TV - Qatar says Iran and some Arab countries can solve their existing tensions through "constructive dialog and diplomacy." "The tension is not sectarian, as it appears to some; rather it is a power and influence struggle in the region between two different poles," the Qatari spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Lolwah al-khater,...

Los Angeles Times | Seyed Hossein Mousavian: A lot of effort went in to trying to arrange a meeting between Iranian President Hassan Rouhani and President Trump last month when they were in New York to attend the U.N. General Assembly. President Emmanuel Macron of France, Prime Minister Boris Johnson of Britain, Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany ...

Press TV - Iranian President Hassan Rouhani says the US has no business and is not welcome in the region and must leave it, stressing that the security of the Persian Gulf can be ensured only by neighbors not outsiders. The security of the region is provided through the pull-out of American military forces not by their weapons and intervention. ...

IRNA Iranian President Hassan Rouhani and French President Emmanuel Macron reaffirmed de-escalation in the Middle East and discussed ways to develop bilateral ties and the sensitive situation in the region. During the meeting which was held on the sidelines of the 74th Session of the United Nations General Assembly, both sides exchanged views on ...

Aljazeera - Iran's Minister of Foreign Affairs Mohammad Javad Zarif has warned against an arms race in the Middle East, saying recent US weapons sales have turned the Persian Gulf region into a "tinderbox ready to blow up". In an exclusive interview with Al Jazeera on Monday, Zarif said more warships in the Gulf would only lead to more insecurity....

The Guardian | Simon Tisdall: Frustration in Washington at its failing foreign policies could be a factor in growing pressure John Boltons sudden, unexplained threat to use unrelenting force against Tehran has raised US-Iran tensions to a new high. But its impact is not confined to these two countries. Like a lethal poison, their mutual enmity is ...

MNA Iranian Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani said that new crises have been created in the region. He made the remarks on Sunday in his meeting with Vito Rosario Petrocelli, President of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Senate of Italy and praised sensitivity of Italian government with regard to the restoration of peace and security in the region....

FNA - Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif underlined his country's distrust of the US and other western states, saying that they should account for their crimes in the Middle-East region. "The arena of international relations is not a place to trust and the Islamic Republic should never trust any country," Zarif said, addressing a meeting ...

Al-Monitor - Tehran's rage and discontent do not seem to have died down since US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's announcement of its Warsaw conference last month. Iranian officials are busy trying to mitigate the perceived negative impacts of the event widely considered an American push to mobilize the world against the Islamic Republic. "The summit ...

Forbes | Michael Lynch: Supposedly a woman approached 19thcentury German Chancellor Bismarck and confessed she didnt understand the controversy over Schleswig-Holstein and asked him to explain it, to which he responded, Madam, only three people have ever understood Schleswig-Holstein. One is dead, the second has gone mad, and Im the third and Ive quite ...

The American Conservative l Sharmine Narwani : The U.S. lost the military gamble in Syria; now it appears to be ceding its diplomatic edge, too. As 2017 comes to a close, the warring parties in Syria are moving towards reconciliationbut the U.S. is not among them. The Islamic State is all but defeated, the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) and its allies ...