United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator Martin Griffiths hailed his constructive talks here in Tehran, saying that efforts will be made for loosening sanctions against Iran. Speaking to reporters, Griffiths said that the Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian and the Government ...

The United States has imposed a fresh raft of sanctions against, what it calls, firms and vessels that have either transported or sold Iranian petroleum or petrochemical products. The US Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) announced the measures on Thursday. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken identified the targets ...

Iran has launched a new private airline despite American sanctions targeting the countrys civil aviation sector. Senior government officials from Irans ministry of tourism attended a ceremony late on Friday to celebrate the launch of Yazd Air, a private airline which will be based in Yazd, a historic city in central Iran. The ceremony came after ...

For thousands of years, Iran has been an important route for the transit of foreign goods due to its geopolitical position. The country played a significant role in transporting commodities from west to east as one of the main stations along the ancient Silk Road. In the modern day, this huge capacity, however, became dormant due to war, political ...

Irans Foreign Ministry spokesman has slammed the fresh round of US sanctions targeting the countrys oil sales, saying the bans reveal Washingtons pseudo-sympathy towards the victims of recent flash floods across Iran. Nasser Kanani made the comments on Tuesday, a day after US Treasury and State Department imposed sanctions on a total of six companies,...

"The Islamic Republic of Iran responded to the US [and the three major EU powers'] action last night by injecting gas into hundreds of advanced centrifuges," Foreign Minister Hossein AmirAbdollahian said Tuesday. On the sidelines of the 7th Islamic Human Rights and Human Dignity Award ceremony in Tehran on Tuesday, Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein ...

The spokesman for the Islamic Republic of Iran Government Ali Bahadori Jahromi said that the US imposing new sanctions against Iran and denying the Iranian singer to enter the US indicated Washington's animosity with the Iranian people. The US government that has a history of breaking promises and violating international law and human rights showed ...

Caracas has denounced the latest US sanctions against Venezuela and Iran as an act of aggression, saying such arrogant actions cannot prevent the South American country from exercising its right to forge economic relations with Iran or any other state. In a statement released on Monday, the Venezuelan Foreign Ministry said this new (American) action ...

Sputnik - The United States announced Monday that it was imposing sanctions on Venezuelas state-owned oil company PDVSA as part of an effort to transfer power away from President Nicolas Maduro to country's opposition leader Juan Guaido. The move comes a week after the head of the opposition-controlled National Assembly, Juan Guaido, proclaimed ...

RT - Countries around the globe are trying to find ways of substituting the US dollar in trade, according to Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov. All of a sudden, the country which issues the US dollar starts making steps which are shattering trust in this reserve currency. More and more countries, not only in the East but also in Europe,...

Press TV - Governor of the Central Bank of Iran says Tehran, Moscow and Ankara have agreed on a number of economic measures like removing the US dollar from their mutual transactions as part of efforts to expand their trade relations amid Washingtons pressure. The agreement was made on the sidelines of a key trilateral summit on Syria held ...

RT - Following Iran and Iraqs decision to no longer use the US dollar in bilateral trade, RT looks at world leaders who have called for a move away from dependance on the currency. Iran and Iraq are the latest in a growing list of nations to distance themselves from the dollar, instead opting to use the euro and their own local currencies for ...

Press TV - US President Donald Trumps withdrawal from the international nuclear deal with Iran and his tightening of sanctions against Tehran are an extension of a Zionist foreign policy that is isolating Washington, a US academic and analyst says. The reimposition of US economic sanctions against Iran will harm Irans economy but the Islamic ...

MNA From the Bosphorus to Beijing, a new power bloc is emerging to challenge the established order, as Trump is concurrently confronting Iran, China, Russia and Turkey. According to a new piece of op-ed written by Mark Almond, the Director of the Crisis Research Institute in Oxford, US President Trump is creating an axis of the sanctioned ...

IRNA Parliament Speaker Binali Y?ld?r?m says the US' aggressive behavior and pressure on Iran, Russia and Turkey will be neutralized through diplomacy and cooperation. Yildrim on his twitter account criticized the US for continuing the policy of sanctions against other countries and said governments of Turkey, Iran and Russia, as countries lying ...

Alwaght - Iraqs mid-May parliamentary election marked a new page in the countrys socio-political developments. The very noticeable hallmarks of the new period are four. First, after four years of fierce battles, the Iraqis managed to defeat the historys largest terror organization, ISIS, and reclaim the whole of their territories seized since 2014....

Press TV - An official from the Lebanese Hezbollah resistance movement has described the latest round of sanctions by the United States and a number of its Persian Gulf Arab allies against the leadership of the group as worthless, stating that the measures will have no effect on the countrys political structure, mainly the election of the parliament ...

Sputnik - Turkey is ready to respond to possible US sanctions, for example, those over Ankara's decision to purchase Russian S-400 Triumf air defense systems, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said. "If it [the United States] wants topunish Turkey withsanctions, Turkey will react inanother way, not likeRussia or other states We will ...

Press TV- Gas exporting countries have condemned the use of sanctions as a weapon against other nations, in an apparent jab at the United States. The Gas Exporting Countries Forum, which has 12 members in the likes of Iran, Russia and Qatar, issued a communiqu at the end of their summit in Bolivia on Friday. Some members of the group such ...

Press TV - US Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin, who is in Israel as part of his so-calledanti-terror tour of the Middle East, has met with the regimes, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who thanked him for recent American sanctions against Iran. Mnuchin, who began his four-day tour in Saudi Arabia, subsequently traveled to occupied Jerusalem ...