Irans Ambassador and Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations Zahra Ershadi has condemned the United States military operation in Syrian soil, calling on international community to pave the way for lifting anti-Syria sanctions. Ershadi addressed Thursday meeting of the UN Security Council on humanitarian situation in Syria, warning ...

Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh on Saturday said that sanctioning the Syrian Foreign Minister Faisal Mekdad is regarded as disturbing the peace process. In reaction to putting the Syrian Foreign Minister on the sanctions list by the European Union, Khatibzadeh termed the move as irrational and destructive that might result ...

Tasnim Irans Ambassador to the European Union and Brussels condemned the new US sanctions against Syria as an act of economic terrorism that is threatening the lives of innocent civilians. Addressing the fourth Brussels Conference on Supporting the future of Syria and the region, held in Belgium on Tuesday, Gholamhossein Dehghani said the imposition ...

Tasnim Hezbollah Secretary General Seyed Hassan Nasrallah censured the US sanctions against Syria, stressing that they have failed to achieve their desired results. In a televised speech on Tuesday on the martyrdom anniversary of the sixth Shiite Imam, Imam Jafar Sadeq (AS), and the demise of former leader of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad movement ...

Tasnim A senior adviser to the Iranian parliament speaker said the US fresh sanctions against Syria, imposed under the Caesar Act, constitute a violation of human rights and international treaties. In a post on his Twitter account on Thursday, Hossein Amir Abdollahian said the US sanctions against the people of Syria under the Caesar Act run counter ...

IRNA Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Abbas Mousavi on Thursday condemned the US sanctions on the Syrian people, and said that Tehran will continue to strengthen its economic relations with Damascus. Mousavi said implementation of Cesar Act is against international laws and human rights. The Caesar Syria Civilian Protection Act, signed into ...

Sputnik - In late December, US President Donald Trump signed the Caesar Syria Civilian Protection Act. The document, which sanctions almost all Syrian economic and trade activities, as well as the countrys government officials, is due to come into force in mid-June. Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif told Sputnik on Tuesday that Tehran ...

The Guardian | Martin Chulov: Critics say legislation is being used for US strategy and could cause further problems for country and wider region Its currency has plunged by 70% since April, more than half its people face food scarcity, and hopes of rebuilding a country shattered by war continue to ebb. Syria seems barely able to absorb new ...

FNA - Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Seyed Abbas Mousavi stressed Tehrans support for Syria, and urged lifting of all sanctions that have impeded Damascus' endeavors to reconstruct the war-ravaged country. Iran announces its support for the Syrian nation and government, and strongly urges the lifting of all inhumane sanctions against the country,...

Al-Masdar News - According to Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov, Moscow and Tehran will be advancing ways in which to defend their economies from US sanctions. We must and many have already spoken about this, including our ambassador in Tehran complete the transition process of economic interaction in the national currency as the best way ...