FNA - Former Iranian Foreign Minister Seyed Kamal Kharrazi blasted Washington for imposing the toughest-ever sanctions against Tehran, stressing that the US pressures may never force the people of Iran to lose their independence. "One of our common problems is the West and US sanctions. The Iranian people are not willing to accept that their independence ...

MNA Head of the Strategic Research Center Ali Akbar Velayati said the Americans are the true losers of the imposing sanctions against Russia and Iran. "Over the past few years, important steps have been taken in the two countries strategic perspective field and the bilateral relations between the two countries have been increasing, Velayati said ...

MNA Head of Institute of Oriental Studiesof theRussian Academy of Sciences met and talked with Iranian Deputy FM HosseinJaberi-Ansari. On Saturday afternoon, VitalyNaumkin, Director of the Institute of Oriental Studies at Faculty of Philosophy of Russian Academy of Sciences joined a meeting with Irans Deputy Foreign Minister for Arab andAfrican ...

Sputnik - If they hope to mend bilateral ties, Qatar and Saudi Arabia do not need the mediation efforts of Russia and the United States, Russian political analyst Vitaly Naumkin told Sputnik. In an interview withSputnik, Russian political analyst Vitaly Naumkin ofthe Moscow-based Institute forOriental Studies specifically focused onstrained ties betweenQatar ...

If, as expected, Russian President Vladimir Putin undertakes the trip to Tehran in August, it will be rich in symbolism - even if he were to give up the travel plan to take a boat across the Caspian Sea to reach the Iranian shore. The congruence of interests of the two regional powers, which are neighbors, has never been in doubt. But then, this year ...