TEHRAN, Feb 09 - The Russian envoy to Beirut says US actions in the Middle East are aimed at sowing discord in the region and can trigger a new conflict between Israel and Lebanon.
TEHRAN, Feb 06 -Russia will race to develop two new land-based missile launch systems before 2021 to respond to Washington’s planned exit from a landmark nuclear arms control pact, it said on Tuesday.
TEHRAN, Feb 06 - Russia will exit the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF) treaty in six months as part of a symmetrical response to the United States' pullout, the Interfax news agency cited Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov as saying on Wednesday.
TEHRAN, Feb 06 - Iranian Oil Minister Bijan Namdar Zanganeh said the country has accepted Russia’s proposal to construct a subsea pipeline for exporting natural gas from the Islamic Republic to India.
TEHRAN, Feb 06 -A Russian court on Wednesday found a Danish adherent of the Jehovah’s Witnesses guilty of organizing the activities of a banned extremist organization and jailed him for six years in a case Western governments cast as a test of religious freedom.
TEHRAN, Feb 05 - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Tuesday that the crisis in Venezuela could only be solved by getting the authorities and the opposition to talk to each other, the RIA news agency reported.
TEHRAN, Feb 05 -Russia must develop a new land-based cruise missile and a new land-based hypersonic missile before 2021 to respond to Washington’s planned exit from a nuclear arms control pact, the RIA news agency cited the defense minister as saying on Tuesday.
TEHRAN, Feb 04 - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has played down the possibility of a new Cold War, after the suspension of a landmark nuclear arms control treaty between Washington and Moscow, adding that the withdrawal will have other implications nevertheless.
TEHRAN, Feb 04 - Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov says a planned meeting of the presidents of the three guarantor states of Syrian peace will be held in the Russian resort city of Sochi on February 14.
TEHRAN, Feb 04 - Russian President Vladimir Putin will meet his Iranian and Turkish counterparts in the Russian Black Sea resort town of Sochi on Feb. 14, RIA news agency reported on Sunday, citing the Kremlin.
TEHRAN, Feb 03 - A delegation of ranking Russian diplomats visited Tehran and held talks with an assistant of Iran’s foreign minister on the latest developments in the war-hit countries of Syria and Yemen and the upcoming conference in Russia’s Sochi on the settlement of the Syrian crisis.
TEHRAN, Feb 03 -The emergency services say at least four people have died in a crash involving a packed bus south-west of Moscow. Over 20 more have been injured, it is reported.
TEHRAN, Feb 03 -Russian boxing star Sergey Kovalev won back his WBO light heavyweight championship title by outpunching Colombian Eleider Alvarez in a rematch held in Frisco, Texas.
TEHRAN, Feb 02 -NATO allies “fully support” the United States’ pending withdrawal notice from the INF nuclear missile pact over Russia’s actions, a statement by the alliance said.
TEHRAN, Feb 02 - Russia has suspended the Cold War-era Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces Treaty after a similar move by the United States, President Vladimir Putin said on Saturday, also instructing the government not to initiate disarmament talks with Washington.
TEHRAN, Feb 01 - The Russia-Turkey-Iran summit on the Syrian settlement will be held on February 14 in Sochi, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Thursday in an interview with Hurriyet newspaper.
TEHRAN, Jan 31 - Russia has warned that members of the so-called White Helmets civil defense group are making preparations to film scenes of staged chemical attacks in Syria’s northwestern province of Idlib in a bid to implicate Syrian government forces and invent pretexts for possible acts of aggression on army troops.
TEHRAN, Jan 31 - The United States and Russia have failed to make any progress in negotiations on a landmark Cold War-era arms control treaty, with Washington expected to go ahead with a unilateral withdrawal from the key pact this weekend, a senior Russian diplomat says.