TEHRAN, January 31 - Russia does not believe there is a case for United Nations action against Iran, Russia's U.N. ambassador said on Wednesday after traveling to Washington to view pieces of weapons that Washington claims Tehran gave Yemen's Houthis.
TEHRAN, January 30 - The US President Donald Trump administration has announced it will not impose additional sanctions on Russia, despite Congress passing a law allowing the President to do so.
TEHRAN, January 30 - Russian officials slammed the US for publishing a blacklist of senior Russian government officials, with a senator saying the move is tantamount to a breakdown of already tense relations between the two sides.
TEHRAN, January 30 -The US Treasury’s long-awaited ‘Kremlin List’ released early on Tuesday has been mocked on Twitter. People question why it took US officials such a long time to compose if it just copies the Forbes list of Russia’s richest.
TEHRAN, January 28 - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday he will depart on Monday to Moscow to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin.
TEHRAN, January 28 - Russian police wrestled opposition leader Alexei Navalny into a patrol wagon on Sunday, moments after he appeared at a rally to urge voters to boycott what he said would be a rigged presidential election in March.
TEHRAN, January 27 - Joe Biden keeps scoffing at Russia and seems to genuinely believe it is a rapidly declining power. This incorrect assumption suggests senior US politicians are receiving extremely poor intel on the subject.
TEHRAN, January 27 - Putin in a meeting with muftis of Russia’s and the leadership of the Bolgar Islamic Academy in Kazan emphasized on building a domestic Islamic Theological seminary.
TEHRAN, January 26 - The United States added Russian officials and energy firms to a sanctions blacklist on Friday, days before details of further possible penalties against Moscow are due to be released.
TEHRAN, January 26 - North Korea shipped coal to Russia last year which was then delivered to South Korea and Japan in a likely violation of U.N. sanctions, three Western European intelligence sources said.
TEHRAN, January 25 - Russia has accused the US of not contributing to a political settlement of the Syria crisis but rather seeking to divide the war-torn Arab country.
TEHRAN, January 25 - Qatar has been holding negotiations with Russia to purchase S-400 missile air defense systems and other weaponry, Doha’s ambassador to Moscow says.
TEHRAN, January 25 - Washington is essentially “blackmailing” European signatories to Iran’s nuclear deal to amend its conditions, Russia’s envoy to EU said.
TEHRAN, January 24 -The FBI agent who investigated the Trump-Russia collusion claim sent a “jaw-dropping” text message suggesting that there was nothing to it, according to a Wisconsin senator who chairs the Homeland Security Committee.
TEHRAN, January 23 -The United States is making false claims about the presumed military threat from Russia and China to justify channeling more money into the military, an American political analyst says.
TEHRAN, January 23 -Mercedes-Benz Rus, the Russian dealer of the famous automobile brand produced by Daimler AG (DAIGn.DE), will recall 6,639 cars sold in Russia, Russia’s technical safety watchdog Rosstandart said on Tuesday.
TEHRAN, January 22 -Andrey Kostin, the head of Russian state bank VTB and an ally of President Vladimir Putin, said there was a high risk his name would be added to a new U.S. list of people close to Vladimir Putin, but that he was unfazed by the prospect.