Tasnim The director of the Istituto Affari Internazionali (IAI) think tank in Rome, Italy, called a recent vote at the UN Security Council against the US bid to extend an arms ban on Iran as a devastating defeat for the Trump administration's diplomacy. (The vote at the UNSC was) apretty devastating defeat for the Trump administration's diplomacy,...

RT - Eight EU countries have joined INSTEX, the mechanism set up to trade with Iran while circumventing US sanctions, and another two are set to follow, according to an aide to EU High Representative Federica Mogherini. Apart from the three countries that initiated the creation of the mechanism France, Germany and Great Britain eight more EU member ...

MNA Commenting on the US withdrawal from the JCPOA Nathalie Tocci, special adviser to the EUs foreign policy chief, Federica Mogherini says if she were Iran she would want to pull out of the deal. Answering a question about possibility of Irans withdrawal from the JCPOA after end of its 60 day ultimatum, she told RT, I think, and all I can say ...

Tasnim The EU has never wavered in its support for the JCPOA as it wholeheartedly believes that the nuclear deal is a good agreement that is working, Nathalie Tocci, an aide to EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini, said. confronted with the unfortunate binary choice of siding with the US versus remaining committed to the JCPOA, the EU has ...

RT - European companies doing business with Iran could soon find themselves between a rock and a hard place. Should they comply with US sanctions and abandon Tehran, they may in turn face sanctions in their home EU. If European companies cave in to US President Donald Trump's threat of secondary sanctions and stop doing business in Iran, they ...

Tasnim The director of the IAI think tank said submitting a resolution draft at the UN by European nations over Washingtons pullout from JCPOA, as set out by Irans Leader as a condition for Tehran to stay in the deal, would fail as the US would use its veto power against Europe. A UNSC resolution would naturally fail due to a US veto. So such an ...

Tasnim A special adviser to the European Union Foreign Policy Chief Federica Mogherini said US President Donald Trumps administration seems to be in a state of utter confusion when it comes to the Middle East. In a nutshell I would say that when it comes to the Middle East, the Trump administration seems to be in a state of utter confusion....

Tasnim A special adviser to the European Union Foreign Policy Chief Federica Mogherini described Iran as a pillar of the Middle East region, saying Tehran will be a necessary interlocutor for Europe, though the two sides may have differing views on certain issues. In an interview with the Tasnim News Agency in Tehran, Nathalie Tocci, a special ...