Daily look at Irans late-breaking news and upcoming events:   Rouhani urges Switzerland to play more constructive role against US illegal actions In a telephone conversation with Swiss President Simonetta Sommaruga, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani called on the European country to perform a more significant role against the US anti-Iranian ...

Press TV - Irans permanent Ambassador to the United Nations says the trade channel launched by a Swiss bank to help the Islamic Republic use its overseas funds to procure food and medicine for its people amid the deadly coronavirus pandemic has so far failed to meet the countrys needs. Majid Takht Ravanchi made the remarks on Saturday evening while ...

IRNA Swiss government announced on Friday that trade channel created to ease trading basic goods with Iran was slower than expected and yielded no special result. The humanitarian channel founded by Trump administration for exporting medicine and other items to Iran, has not actually led to any particular exchanges. Fabian Maienfisch, a spokesman ...

Bourse and Bazaar | Esfandyar Batmanghelidj and Sahil Shah: Just a few days after Iran announced its first deaths from COVID-19 in February, the Trump administrations Special Envoy for Iran Brian Hook was asked during a briefing for an update on the Swiss Humanitarian Trade Arrangement (SHTA), a payment channel intended to ease the sale of medicine ...

Press TV - The Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman has questioned the US claim that medicines are not subject to sanctions, saying Washington does not allow financial transactions through a Swiss humanitarian channel amid Tehrans battle against the spreading coronavirus in the country. Although the Americans claim that medicines are not subject to ...

Financial Tribune - The Central Bank of Iran will decide about using the payment channel devised by the Swiss government for sending humanitarian goods to Iran, head of the Iran-Switzerland Joint Chamber of Commerce said. "Using the channel carries some costs for the central bank as it should allocate resources to the channel to the extent possible,...

Reuters - A Swiss channel to export food and medicine to Irans struggling population without running foul of U.S. sanctions is off to a good start, with dozens of companies keen to take part, a senior government official said on Saturday. The Swiss Humanitarian Trade Arrangement (SHTA) aims to ensure Swiss-based exporters and trading firms in the ...

Reuters - The United States on Thursday granted a license to allow for certain humanitarian trade transactions with Irans sanctioned central bank, a move it said was in step with the formalization of a Swiss humanitarian aid channel. The newly created channel, which the U.S. Treasury Department said became fully operational on Thursday as it granted ...

Reuters - U.S. Special Representative for Iran Brian Hook said on Thursday the United States was in talks with at least two more companies that would like to send food and medicine to Iran through the Swiss humanitarian channel. Hook told reporters there was a lot of interest in the Swiss network, intended to supply goods to struggling sectors of ...

Bourse and Bazaar | Esfandyar Batmanghelidj: On Thursday, Swiss authorities announced that they had processed apilot transactionthrough theSwiss Humanitarian Trade Arrangement (SHTA), a new payment channel that intends to ease the sale of food and medicine to Iran by Swiss companies. Work on this channelbegan in late 2018following the Trump administrations ...

Tasnim Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Seyed Abbas Mousavi said a Swiss humanitarian channel recently launched for exporting food and medicine to Iran proves that the products have been sanctioned by the US. In spite of the US false claims that medicines and foodstuffs are not sanctioned, they (US officials) have practically blocked all ways ...

FNA - Iranian First Vice-President Eshaq Jahangiri lashed out at Washington for its lies about sanctions on exports of drugs and medical equipment to Iran. "We cannot use even one single dollar of our own assets in other countries to pay for medicine and foodstuff, because the US doesn't allow it," Jahangiri said, addressing a ceremony in Tehran ...

Al-Monitor - A new financial channel has opened up between Iran and Switzerland that will permit the sale of humanitarian supplies to the country, which has become increasingly financially isolated due to US sanctions. In a ceremony with camera crews, Switzerlands Ambassador to Iran Markus Leitner unveiled boxes of medical supplies, which caused a ...

Bloomberg | Esfandyar Batmanghelidj: The Treasury Departments letter of comfort opens a long-delayed Swiss channel. On Thursday, Swiss authorities announced that they had processed a pilot transaction through the Swiss Humanitarian Trade Arrangement (SHTA), a new payment channel that intends to ease the sale of food and medicine to Iran by Swiss ...

RT - Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said on Monday that the Swiss humanitarian channel is not a sign of the United States goodwill. This is a small step and we thank the Swiss government for its efforts but this channel is not a sign of Americas goodwill at all, ISNA quoted Zarif as saying. The Swiss and US governments on Thursday ...

IRNA - The Swiss Ambassador to Tehran Markus Leitner announced the launching of the Swiss Financial Mechanism within the next two to three weeks, saying that some 180,000 packages of medicines needed for transplant patients arrived in Tehran on Sunday. Speaking at a news conference on Sunday in Swiss embassy in Tehran, he said the aim of the Swiss ...

Tasnim Irans UN mission spokesman Alireza Miryousefi said the opening of a humanitarian channel to bring food and medicine to Iran was evidence of false claims that medicine and food were exempt from Washingtons illegal sanctions. This is the best evidence that the longstanding & false US claims that medicine & food are exempt from its ...

The New York Times | Lara Jakes: The Trump administration on Thursday piled new economic sanctions onto its ever-growing pressure campaign against Iran, but it also opened access to medicine for cancer and organ transplant patients in an effort to turn Iranians against their leaders. The medicines are being sent to Iran through businesses in Switzerland,...

Bloomberg | Saleha Mohsin: The U.S. announced it has opened a banking channel via Switzerland to provide humanitarian aid to Iran, nearly two years after President Donald Trump withdrew from an international nuclear agreement with the Islamic Republic and reinstated severe economic sanctions. Cancer and organ transplant patients in Iran were the ...

MNA The Governor of the Central bank of Iran (CBI) reacted to the Thursday trial operation of a humanitarian channel for the delivery of foodstuff and medicine to Iran without tripping over the US sanctions. "If Americans really mean it when they say they are helping with the supply of medicine and agricultural goods, they must establish a banking ...