TEHRAN, April 11 - US President Donald Trump said US-Russian relations are "worse now" than they were during the Cold War due to Moscow’s support of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and escalating tensions over a suspected poison gas attack near the Syrian capital Damascus.
TEHRAN, April 11 -In response to US President Donald Trump's threat of an imminent missile attack on Syria, Russia has advised Washington to target terrorists instead of the Syrian government and its forces.
TEHRAN, April 11 -Responding to Russian warnings to the U.S. against military strikes in Syria, President Donald Trump said Wednesday that missiles "will be coming" in response to Syria's suspected chemical attack that killed at least 40 people.
TEHRAN, April 10 - RRivaling US and Russia drafted UNSC resolutions aimed at creating a new inquiry into chemical weapons attacks in Syria have both failed to garner votes at the council.
TEHRAN, April 10 - Iran proposed railway electrification projects worth 3 billion euros to Russia, state company Russian Railways First Vice-President Alexander Misharin has said.
TEHRAN, April 10 - Iranian Foreign Minister's Senior Assistant for Special Political Affairs Hossein Jaberi Ansari and Russian Special Presidential envoy for Syria Alexander Lavrentiev discussed Syrian developments.
TEHRAN, April 10 - Energy Minister Alexander Novak says Russia is considering payments in national currencies in trade with Iran and Turkey amid their escalating tensions with the US.
TEHRAN, April 10 - Russian central bank chief Elvira Nabiullina said Tuesday that the country's economy could withstand the latest US sanctions, even as the ruble continued its spectacular plunge against the dollar and the euro.
TEHRAN, April 09 - Iranian President Hassan Rouhani says Iran and Russia have strategic relations and must continue their cooperation until the full restoration of peace and security to the war-ravaged country.
TEHRAN, April 09 - Russia and Syria say Israeli warplanes struck an air base in the Syrian province of Homs and that Syrian air defense systems shot down five of eight missiles fired.
TEHRAN, April 09 - The United Nations Security Council will hold a meeting on Monday at rival requests of Russia and the United States following an alleged chemical attack in Syria.
TEHRAN, April 09 -Tensions are escalating between the US and Russia as Washington says Moscow “ultimately bears responsibility for these brutal attacks,” in reference to a reported chemical attack the US blames on the Syrian government.
TEHRAN, April 06 - Former Russian spy Sergei Skripal is no longer in a critical condition and his health is improving rapidly, more than a month after he was poisoned with a nerve agent in England, the hospital treating him said on Friday.
TEHRAN, April 06 - French President Emmanuel Macron and Russia's Vladimir Putin spoke by phone on Friday, with Macron calling on Russia to use its influence to end the conflict in Syria and resume negotiations towards a political transition.
TEHRAN, April 05 - US President Donald Trump’s administration is preparing to impose new sanctions on powerful Russian business and political figures under a law passed last year in response to alleged Russian meddling in the 2016 election.
TEHRAN, April 05 - The foreign ministers of Russia and China jointly denounced what they described Thursday as the unilateralism of the United States, criticism that underlined their growing rapport on global issues.
TEHRAN, April 05 - The niece of Sergei Skripal, a former Russian spy poisoned in Britain with his daughter, says she plans to travel to England and try to bring back Yulia, Skripal's daughter, to Russia.