George Clooney said on Friday the refugee crisis is bigger than the headline-grabbing exodus from Syria and Iraq, and he believes Americans "will do the right thing" by rejecting Donald Trump and calls to ban Muslims entering the United States. Clooney spoke to Reuters on the same day he and his wife, the human rights lawyer Amal Alamuddin Clooney,...

TEHRAN (ISNA)- Visa limitations run counter to the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) and need to be modified, said Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister for European and American Affairs Majid Takht-Ravanchi. Naturally, Europeans are not happy with the situation, but as you know there have been exceptions in John Kerrys letter and regulations ...

Newly introduced restrictions on the US Visa Waiver Program will provoke European countries to employ similar measures that will cause significant difficulties for Iranian nationals traveling to the United States, the National Iranian American Council said in a press release. WASHINGTON (Sputnik) On Thursday, the US Department ofHomeland Security ...

The State Department is promising to make changes to a program allowing some travelers to enter the U.S. without a visa "very soon." The changes to the program waiving visas for people from 38 countries will be phased in, State Department spokesman Mark Toner told reporters on Wednesday, weeks after Congress approved the fix to prevent domestic ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) A restriction on visa-free travel to the US for travelers to Iran clearly runs counter to a provision in a July nuclear deal between Tehran and six world powers that commits the parties to implement the accord in good faith, a senior Iranian official said Monday. Secretary of Irans Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) Shamkhani ...

Iran will take reciprocal measures in response to any breach of this year's nuclear deal, the Foreign Ministry warned on Monday, after Tehran said new U.S. visa restrictions contravened the historic agreement. Iran has started to restrict its nuclear programme under the terms of the July 14 deal with six world powers, including the United States....

Tehran, Dec 27, IRNA -- Head of the Foreign Ministry Headquarters to Monitor Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) Abbass Araqchi underlined that the possible changes in the US Visa Waiver Program proposed by the Congress blatantly violate the nuclear agreement. Although it is not an important issue, it is aimed at harassment and is against the ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) Chairman of the Iranian parliaments national security and foreign policy commission deplored a new law that tightens visa-free travel to the US for those who have visited Iran, saying it violates a comprehensive nuclear deal that Tehran and six world powers hammered out in July. Alaeddin Boroujerdi on Sunday sent letters to his ...

The Australian ambassador to Tehran has announced that the Australian Trade Commission will send a delegation to Iran next year to resume trade ties between Canberra and Tehran. His comments come despite the fact that the US House of Representatives new Visa Waiver law has caused restrictions for those who travel to Iran, Iraq, Syria and Sudan....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Top GOP lawmakers accused the Obama administration Wednesday of ignoring congressional intent and the spirit of the law in offering reassurances to Iran about new visa rules. "There is no ambiguity," said House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy of California. "The administration should follow the law as written and agreed to." At ...

Daily look at Irans late-breaking news and upcoming events:   Irans Zarif: Implementation of new US visa law tantamount to breach of JCPOA Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said should the new law that tightens visa-free travel to the US come into force, it would be tantamount to a breach of the July nuclear deal between Tehran ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said should the new law that tightens visa-free travel to the US come into force, it would be tantamount to a breach of the July nuclear deal between Tehran and six world powers, known as the JCPOA. If the law takes effect exactly as approved by the US Congress, it would be considered ...

Tehran, Dec 21, IRNA Chairman of Expediency Council Ayatollah Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani said on Tuesday that the US administration has provided guarantees not to let visa waiver reform jeopardize implementing Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action. He criticized the US Congress and the hardliners of the United States for including Iran in the list of ...

Daily look at Irans late-breaking news and upcoming events:   US visa waiver program inappropriate: French leader President of the French Senate Gerard Larcher says a recent US law restricting visits toIran isunacceptable and violates a July nuclear accord.   Heavy water, US new excuse: Iran nuclear chief says The Head of Irans ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) A number of Iranian lawmakers, in a letter to President Hassan Rouhani, voiced their protest at the breach of the recent nuclear deal with six world powers, also known as the JCPOA, by the US and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). Speaking to the Tasnim News Agency, Mohammad Javad Karimi Qoddousi, a member of the parliaments ...

President of the French Senate Gerard Larcher says a recent US law restricting visits toIran isunacceptable and violates a July nuclear accord. Speaking to reporters in Tehran on Monday evening at the end of his three-day visit, Larcher said Europeans and the French, in particular, consider the decision as inappropriate, adding that the measure ...

Congresss efforts to change the rules for some foreign tourists could run afoul of the nuclear deal with Iran, officials in Tehran have warned the Obama administration. Now, the Obama administration is rushing to reassure Iran, amid a backlash tochanges that would make it more difficultfor foreigners who have been to Iran to travel to the United ...

Iranian Foreign Ministry SpokesmanHossein JaberiAnsari says therecently devised visa restrictions in the US, which affectdual national Iranians and people who have visited Iran,were pushed throughunder the pressure of Zionist lobby groups. During his weekly press briefing on Monday, Jaberi Ansari said the recently passedlegislation in Washington ...

Irans Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says a new US legislation to tighten visa-free travel to the United States breaches Europes independence. The legislation is against Europes independence and the spirit of the law lays down the approach that whoever is siding with terrorists is immune, Zarif said in a meeting with French Senate President ...

Tehran, Dec 21, IRNA Majlis Speaker Ali Larijani said on Monday that the recent decision made by the US parliament on banning visa for those travelers visiting Iran will harm the nuclear deal signed between Iran and G5+1 and is against the content of the agreement. Larijani made the remarks in a meeting with visiting Bulgarian Foreign Minister Daniel ...