RT - The suffocating sanctions in place for almost six decades make it extremely difficult for the island nation to import essential supplies needed to battle the coronavirus, Cuban health officials say. The United States economic-financial blockade is the most unfair, severe, prolonged system of sanctions of all time by one country against another,...

IRNA - Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif in a massage expressed salutation and support for Cuba. "#US #EconomicTerrorism against Cuba, China, Russia, Syria, Iran &... deliberately target civilians, trying to achieve illegitimate political objectives through intimidation of innocent people,"Zarif tweeted on Friday. He added:...

IRNA - Cuba and Iran will turn the sanctions into opportunities to further develop commercial and trade relations, Cuban Embassy in Iran said in a statement on Wednesday. The two countries of Republic of Cuba and Islamic Republic of Iran resumed their diplomatic relations on August 8th, 1979. In this way, Cuba was one of the first countries that ...

MNA Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Seyyed Abbas Mousavi condemned US hostile policies against Cuba, in particular the lifting of waivers on Title III of the 1996 Holmes-Burton Act. Once again, Washington proved that it takes advantage of any illegitimate instrument to put pressure on independent countries and despite disagreement of the majority ...

MNA Tehran Interim Friday Prayers Leader Seyed Mohammad Hasan Aboutorabifard denounced the US government officias unjust and unmannerly measures against the Iranian nation, saying that our people will never back down in the face of US' plots and pressures. Speaking to the Friday prayers participants this noon, Aboutorabifard ...

IRNA Permanent Representative of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the United Nations Gholamali Khoshroo on Wednesday slammed US unilateral sanctions against Cuba, saying that embargoes are a vivid example of the unilateral way in which the United States acts in the world. Addressing a meeting themed Necessity of ending the economic, commercial and ...

June 18,The Iran Project Cuban ambassador in Iran says Havana seeks to bolster relations with Tehran, touching upon the two countries great ties in President Rouhanis government. Speaking to a reporter on Sunday, Cuban Ambassador in Tehran GonzalezQuesada stated that Iran-Cuba are already having proper relations, pointing to the visits Iranian ...

CBS News - The Senate on Thursday overwhelmingly passedlegislation that would impose new U.S. sanctions that would target Iran's ballistic missile program, human rights violations, and yet it would still comply with the Iranian nuclear deal. Senators voted 98-2 in favor of the measure. Bipartisan negotiations also led to the bill including expanded ...

Irans President Hassan Rouhani has criticized the United States for the imposition of economic sanctions against independent countries, saying such policy is wrong and futile. In the worlds trade and economic system, freedom of trade and economic relations should exist between countries within the framework of international regulations, Rouhani ...

Since Obamas announcement last week that he will normalize relations with Cuba, a number of commentators have analyzed what impact this might have on US-Iranian ties, particularly with respect to the ongoing negotiations on Irans nuclear program. Aside from neoconservatives, such asElliott Abrams, and other hawks, likeLindsey Graham and John McCainwho ...

The Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) has called on the United States to abide by a UN resolution on the lifting of the economic sanctions Washington has imposed against Cuba. Speaking on behalf of the NAM in a Tuesday meeting of the UN General Assembly, Irans Deputy Ambassador to the UN Gholam-Hossein Dehqani called for an end to the US embargo against ...