TEHRAN, September 21 - Russia on Friday called a new wave of U.S. sanctions misguided, saying Washington's habit of using sanctions against Moscow risked undermining global stability and was part of a dangerous game.
TEHRAN, September 20 - Syrian President Bashar al-Assad says the Tel Aviv regime is to blame for the tragic deaths of over a dozen Russian servicemen aboard an Il-20 surveillance aircraft, which was accidentally shot down by Syrian air defenses while they were responding to a wave of Israeli air raids.
TEHRAN, September 20 - Russia's Ambassador to the United Nations Vasily Nebenzya said Moscow plans to continue talks with Tehran and Ankara on ways to help end the suffering of the Syrian people in the northwestern province of Idlib, the last major terrorist stronghold in the Arab country.
TEHRAN, September 19 - Moscow has dismissed allegations by Washington that Russia helped North Korea acquire fuel through transfers at sea in violation of sanctions against Pyongyang.
TEHRAN, September 19 - Russian President Vladimir Putin says the Israeli military’s aerial operations in the Syrian airspace are in flagrant violation of the incumbent Damascus government’s sovereignty as tensions are simmering between Moscow and Tel Aviv over the downing of the Russian Ilyushin Il-20 reconnaissance aircraft in the western Syrian province of Latakia.
TEHRAN, September 19 - Iran welcomed a recent agreement reached between Turkey and Russia to create a buffer zone in Syria’s Idlib Province, the last major terrorist bastion in the Arab country.
TEHRAN, September 18 -The U.S. Air Force is predicting it will need to grow sharply over the next decade or so, boosting the number of operational squadrons by nearly a quarter to stay ahead of increasingly muscular militaries in China and Russia, officials said.
TEHRAN, September 18 - A Russian Il-20 aircraft went off radar near Hmeymim airbase in Syria Monday evening, coinciding with an attack on the province of Latakia.
TEHRAN, September 18 - Russia has described emerging US sanctions against Iran as ‘unproductive’ with the country’s top energy official warning that there would be consequences for the world should Iran’s oil supplies to global markets are halted due to the sanctions.
TEHRAN, September 16 - The Russian Defense Ministry says it has reliable evidence showing that militants have already transported a number of canisters containing chlorine to a village in Syria’s northwestern province of Idlib to stage a false-flag chemical attack and frame Damascus.
TEHRAN, September 15 - US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has accused Russia of working to undermine economic sanctions imposed on North Korea, arguing that implementing the bans is the only way to force Pyongyang to give up its nuclear weapons.
TEHRAN, September 14 - The United States on Thursday imposed sanctions on a China-based tech firm, its North Korean CEO and a Russian subsidiary, accusing them of moving illicit funding to North Korea in violation of U.S. sanctions.
TEHRAN, September 14 - Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Friday repeated Japan's stance that a row over islands seized by Russian troops in the final days of World War Two must be settled before a peace treaty can be signed to formally end hostilities between their countries.
TEHRAN, September 13 -Russia says it is concerned about the attempts being made by the United States to prepare the global public opinion for new military aggression against Syria.
TEHRAN, September 13 - Authorities in Britain have rejected claims by two Russians suspected of poisoning a double spy in March in the English town of Salisbury, repeating their previous statements that the pair were Moscow’s agents and had carried out the attack on Sergei Skripal and his daughter.
TEHRAN, September 13 - Russia, Iran, Europe and China will intensify work in coming days to counter unilateral US sanctions and Washington’s efforts to undermine a 2015 nuclear deal with Tehran, Sergei Ryabkov says.
TEHRAN, September 13 - Russia says US efforts to bring down Iran’s oil exports to zero would lead to nothing with a top official describing Washington’s objectives in pursuing sanctions against Iran as “unrealistic.”
TEHRAN, September 12 - Russia says US efforts to bring down Iran’s oil exports to zero would lead to nothing with a top official describing Washington’s objectives in pursuing sanctions against Iran as “unrealistic.”
TEHRAN, September 12 -Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping have slammed economic protectionism, pledging to work together to counter the trend, widely practiced by the current United States administration, including against Moscow and Beijing.