Irans envoy to the international organizations in Vienna called for an end to the development and testing of nuclear weapons as the first step towards nuclear disarmament. Iran supports the objectives stipulated in the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) with the ultimate goal of disarmament, as well as general and complete disarmament under ...

IRNA -- Iran's Ambassador to the Vienna-based International Organizations Kazem Gharibabadi on Thursday expressed deep concern over recent efforts by the US and France which violate the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT). Addressing the 54th Session of the Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization ...

The National Interest | John Spacapan: If news reports are correct, then Iran wants to build a bomb. But in the two months since its muted response to the American strike that killed Irans Maj. Gen Qassim Suleimani and the country seems intent on signaling rather than proliferating. In January, Irans foreign minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, threatened ...

Tasnim Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said Tehran is diametrically opposed to nuclear arms as their development, acquisition, stockpiling and use are prohibited under Islamic law. Iran's Leader has long made it abundantly clear that nuclear weapons are immoral & contravene Islamic principles. Their development, acquisition, stockpiling ...

Sputnik - On Monday,the presidents of the US and France agreed that Tehran must not obtain nuclear weapons and needs to comply with international obligations in this area. Moreover, US President Trump did not rule out meeting with his Iranian counterpart Rouhani to discuss a new agreement if the necessary conditions are created. The Iranian president ...

Reuters - Iran has no intention of making or using nuclear weapons, Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was quoted as saying on Thursday by Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. Khameneis comment, a reiteration of Irans stance, comes at a time of increased U.S.-Iranian tension, a year after Washington abandoned an agreement between Iran ...

IRNA Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, referring to the US pouring arms for killing Yemeni people, said Irans missileds are not designed for nukes. The USwhich violated UNSCR 2231 in withdrawing from JCPOAor its allies (in violation of its provision on normalizing economic relations w/Iran) are in no position to push a conceited ...

CNS News | Susan Jones: Iran's Ambassador to the United Nations Majid Takht Ravanchi on Tuesday denied any direct or indirect involvement in the sabotage of four tankers near the Persian Gulf; he denied that Iran has plans to attack U.S. interests or U.S. troops in the region; and he defended Iran's decision to increase stockpiles of heavy water and ...

MNA Irans ambassador to the UN Majid Takht-Ravanchi said that US President Donald Trump is not aware that Iran is not after nuclear weapons. In an interview with MSNBC, the Iranian envoy touched upon Leader of Islamic Revolutions verdict on banning nuclear weapons in Islam, highlighting that Iran is not interested in such weapons. Asked ...

MNA Irans Representative Seyed Mohammad Ali Robatjazi underscored in an NPT meeting in New York that Tehran regards nuclear weapons the biggest threat to the world. Making the remarks at the preparatory committee meeting for the 2020 review conference for the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) at UN headquarters in New York,...

Tasnim Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said it would be right to eliminate the infrastructure for US nuclear weapons in Europe. "Everyone will feel more at ease when all US nuclear weapons return to US territory, and infrastructure in Europe which allows to store, service and deploy those weapons, will be eliminated," Medvedev told the Luxemburger ...

IFP - An Iranian analyst says Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahus claim that there exists a secret atomic warehouse in a village called Turquzabad can help revive the tourism industry of southern Tehran. In his Thursday address to the UN General Assembly, Netanyahu showed a photograph of the Iranian capital marked with a red arrow and pointed ...

MNA Irans envoy to the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) Farhad Mamdouhi called Israeli PM a liar who is mocking democracy, adding that the Islamic Republic is fully aware of the regime's provocations in the region. Speaking on Thursday in response to the baseless and unfounded claims of Israeli prime minister regarding Iran's nuclear program,...

Tasnim Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi shrugged off Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahus speech about a secret atomic warehouse in Tehran, saying such a show does not merit a comment. In remarks released on Thursday night, Qassemi deplored Netanyahus speech to the UN General Assembly earlier in the day and said it was a ...

MNA Iranian deputy FM Abbas Araghchi has mocked Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu for his latest anti-Iran theatrics at the UN General Assembly regarding allegations about Iran's "secret" sites for developing nuclear weapons. I believe that some people have pulled a prank on Netanyahu and this time they have referred him to Turquzabad, Seyed Abbas ...

Forbes | Jim Krane: From Irans perspective, nuclear weapons just became a necessity. The Islamic Republic is hemmed in by hostile neighbors clamoring for America to invade. One of those neighbors itself a nuclear weapons state has been demonstrating the impunity conferred by such weapons by bombarding Irans foreign bases, killing dozens. The ...

Iranian Diplomacy | Kaveh L. Afrasiabi: One day after yet another military aggression against Syria by its missile strikes against the Syrian military targets in Homs and Aleppo, the Israeli government went on the media offensive against Iran by patting itself on its own shoulder for achieving a major intelligence coup yielding a huge cache of Iran's ...

CNN | Oren Liebermann: On a makeshift stage in Israel's Ministry of Defense, a high-walled, heavily guarded complex in the heart of Tel Aviv, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's show was about to begin. After a technical snafu that required two wireless microphones before it was sorted out, Netanyahu revealed his first slide in a dramatic multimedia ...

TASS- Israel has invited a group of Russian experts to familiarize themselves with documents on the Iranian nuclear program presented by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday, a source in Jerusalems authorities told TASS. "The Russian groups have been invited [to study the materials]," the source said. "At the moment there is no particular ...

RT- Calling the Israeli premier an infamous liar and head of a child-killing Zionist regime, Iran has furiously denounced an elaborate presentation by Benjamin Netanyahu, in which he accused Tehran of seeking nuclear weapons. In astatementTuesday, Irans Foreign Ministry blasted Mondays claims by abroke and infamous liar who has had nothing to ...