RT - Talking to the Americans is pointless as their demands are endless, and its strange that French President Emmanuel Macron doesnt understand this, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said. Macron made a vain attempt to mediate talks between Iranian President Hassan Rouhani and Donald Trump on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in September....

Al-Monitor | Laura Rozen: Even though the Iranian and US presidents did not meet or share a phone call during the UN General Assembly meetings in New York last month, the French say that important progress has been made on a substantive framework for possible talks, and it is largely a matter of sequencing and overcoming mistrust to see if the parties ...

Al-Monitor | Saeid Jafari: It could be a long while before Tehran and Washington cross paths again at least in positive terms. Despite efforts by several world leaders to getthe presidents of Iran and the United States together on the sidelines of the recent UNGeneral Assembly session in New York, no such meeting took place and no improvements were ...

Iran Front Page - The Iranian presidents chief of staff Mahmoud Vaezi says President Hassan Rouhanis laughter was the best response to the insistence of British and French leaders on arranging a meeting with US President Donald Trump. Speaking in an exclusive interview with the Iranian Students News Agency (ISNA) on Sunday, Vaezi hailed the presidents ...

Tasnim Irans Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif plans to attend a meeting of the parliaments National Security and Foreign Policy Commission to brief the lawmakers on the Iranian delegations recent visit to New York for the UN General Assembly, the spokesman for the commission said. Speaking to Tasnim, Hossein Naqavi Hosseini said according ...

IRNA - Government spokesman Ali Rabeie said on Saturday that the diplomatic campaign ushered in by President Hassan Rouhani and Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif at the United Nations General Assembly made the regional peace available to the people living in the region. Elaborating on achievements made by President Rouhani in the course of the ...

Tasnim President of Iran Hassan Rouhani said Tehrans new initiative for regional security, known as the Hormuz Peace Endeavor, did not meet any opposition when proposed at a recent meeting of the United Nations General Assembly in New York. Speaking at a weekly cabinet session in Tehran on Wednesday, President Rouhani said his participation at ...

The Washington Post | Mohammad Ayatollahi Tabaar: Yes, research provides insight into Irans foreign policy and a possible way to stop the escalation between Iran and United States. U.S.-Iranian tensions have reached new heights since President Trump pulled the United States out of the Iranian nuclear agreement, the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action ...

Press TV - President Hassan Rouhani says the administration of US President Donald Trump failed to deceive Iran into holding a presidential meeting during his recent visit to New York. President Rouhani made the remarkat a cabinet meeting in Tehran on Wednesday, a few days after he returned from the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in New ...

IRNA The Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said on Wednesday that Iran's stance on French President Emmanuel Macron's four-point plan has not been reflected correctly, requiring further precise negotiations. Speaking to reporters at the end of a Cabinet Session, Mohammad Javad Zarif said: "As the Iranianpresident said, efforts ...

IRNA - Iran's Foreign Minister's 9-day visit to New York and his intensive official and informal meetings with international officials amid the US sanctions and severe restrictions on Iran can be described as "breaking the siege on Iranian diplomacy". Despite Trump's unprecedented pressure to restrict the Iranian Foreign Minister's commutes ...

The New York Times | Farnaz Fassihi and Rick Gladstone: The telephone line had been secretly set up. President Trump waited on the other end. All President Hassan Rouhani of Iran had to do was come out of his hotel suite and walk into a secure room where Mr. Trumps voice would be piped in via speaker. Mr. Rouhani and his aides were blindsided by ...

ISNA Spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Seyyed Abbas Mousavi announced that Iran had outstanding presence in the 74th United Nations General Assembly and the president and foreign minister of the country had constructive talks on the sidelines of the summit. At Mondays press conference, Mousavi told reporters,...

IRNA - Irans Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has returned to the country after nine-days of diplomatic overtures at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA). The Iranian diplomat, who was restricted to move in New York because of the US limitations, met with 17 international counterparts on the sidelines of the 74th UNGA in New York. He ...

The Wall Street Journal | Laurence Norman and Michael R. Gordon: The leaders of the U.S. and Iran arrived here for the United Nations General Assembly with their red lines clearly drawn. French President Emmanuel Macron came determined to bend themand engineer the first meeting between U.S. and Iranian leaders since the 1979 Islamic Revolution. The ...

The New Yorker | Robin Wright: On the evening of Tuesday, September 24th, the President of France, Emmanuel Macron, went to see his Iranian counterpart, Hassan Rouhani, at the Millennium Hilton Hotel, across the street from the U.N. headquarters, in New York. The hotel is one of only three places that the Iranian leader could go in the city, because ...

Reuters - Saudi Arabia has sent messages to Irans president through the leaders of other countries, a spokesman for Tehrans government said on Monday, at a time of heightened tensions between the regional rivals. Messages from the Saudis were presented to (Irans President) Hassan Rouhani from the leaders of some countries, spokesman Ali Rabiei said,...

Press TV - Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has lambasted Germany, France and Britain -- three of the European signatories to the 2015 Iran nuclear deal -- for echoing statements and claims made by the United States regarding the Islamic Republic. The Iranian top diplomat made the remarks on Sunday night, during a layover in the German ...

ISNA - Iranian deputy Foreign Minister for Political Affairs, Seyyed Abbas Araghchi has delivered a speech at the ministerial meeting of the Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO) held in New York on the sidelines of the 74th meeting of the UN General Assembly. In his speech, Araghchi denounced the United States destructive and one-sided approach,...

TRT World - Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif urges arch-rival, Saudi Arabia, to accept that "security cannot be bought," saying an end to the war in Yemen would quell regional tensions. Iran's foreign minister has urged arch-rival, Saudi Arabia, to accept that "security cannot be bought", saying an end to the war in Yemen would quell regional ...