TEHRAN, Jul 18 - Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said the Islamic Republic “will never start a war,” but “will defend” itself against any act of aggression.
TEHRAN, Jul 18 - The Iranian Foreign Ministry strongly condemned a terrorist attack on members of the Turkish consulate in Iraq’s city of Erbil that killed three people.
TEHRAN, Jul 18 - The US cruel economic terrorism against the Islamic Republic is intentionally designed to harm the civilians for political purposes, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said.
TEHRAN, Jul 18 -Iran's foreign minister says the country will not renegotiate its 2015 nuclear agreement with world powers, rejecting the possibility of a new deal with the US that includes Iran's missile program.
TEHRAN, Jul 17 -iran’s ambassador to India has said that his country would not halt planned investment in a major Indian refinery despite US sanctions that have affected the country’s oil incomes.
TEHRAN, Jul 17 -Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says the US must end its arms sales to despotic regimes in the region instead of complaining about Tehran’s development of its defense capabilities in the face of threats.
TEHRAN, Jul 17 -President Hassan Rouhani’s chief of staff asserts that Iran’s defensive power is non-negotiable, reacting to misinterpretation of earlier remarks made by Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif.
TEHRAN, Jul 17 - Iran has helped a foreign oil tanker that had been stalled in the Persian Gulf due to technical failure, the Foreign Ministry announced.
TEHRAN, Jul 17 - The United Kingdom has announced that it will send a third warship to the Persian Gulf later this year, a move that comes amid intensifying tensions with Tehran over the illegal seizure of an Iranian oil tanker.
TEHRAN, Jul 17 - Iranian Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani decried the US plots to create division between Iran and Iraq, saying the American policies have backfired as the two neighbors enjoy deep-rooted ties.
TEHRAN, Jul 16 -The spokesman for the Iranian Foreign Ministry says the country’s naval forces have assisted a foreign crude oil tanker in the Persian Gulf, after they received a request for help from the vessel.
TEHRAN, Jul 16 - Europe had better try to convince the US to remove its anti-Iran sanctions instead of holding meetings and mounting pressure on Iran to save the 2015 nuclear deal, Iranian First Vice-President Eshaq Jahangiri said.
TEHRAN, Jul 16 - The United States should sanction “to the ground” European countries that continue to trade with Iran under the 2015 nuclear deal and refuse to join America's pressure campaign against the Islamic Republic, says top Republican Senator Lindsey Graham.
TEHRAN, Jul 16 - Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has denounced Britain’s illegal seizure of an Iranian oil tanker, warning that the act of “piracy” will not go unanswered.
TEHRAN, Jul 16 - Iran is not seeking a war with the US, Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said, stressing that Washington must first lift the sanctions on Tehran to make way for diplomacy.
TEHRAN, Jul 15 - The spokesman for the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) says Tehran is planning to go back to the conditions preceding the landmark 2015 nuclear deal unless European signatories fulfill their obligations.
TEHRAN, Jul 15 - Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif highlighted rejection of the US’ unilateral policies by world countries, saying it’s time for Washington to “return to the international community”.
TEHRAN, Jul 15 - Iran’s Defense Ministry is developing a new military vehicle that will come into service in near future, Defense Minister Brigadier General Amir Hatami said.