TEHRAN, November 10 -Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has dismissed his American counterpart's starvation threat, stressing the Islamic Republic will survive and even advance despite Washington’s sanctions.
TEHRAN, November 10 -President Hassan Rouhani says the US administration is seeking to exert pressure on the Iranian people through imposing "inappropriate" sanctions that he said would affect their livelihood.
TEHRAN, November 10 - Tehran's interim Friday prayers leader Hojjatoleslam Kazim Sadighi said on Friday that US power is declining in the world at a time when anti-US sentiments are on the rise.
TEHRAN, November 10 - Yukia Amano, the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), said Iran is honoring its nuclear-related commitments under the 2015 nuclear deal between Tehran and world powers.
TEHRAN, November 09 - The impacts of fresh US sanctions on Iran have been cushioned by high oil prices and Washington’s international isolation, with Tehran being better placed to weather the storm, a Reuters analysis says.
TEHRAN, November 09 - German Ambassador to Iran Michael Klor-Berchtold called US recent sanctions against Iran illegal, adding that Germany would keep cooperation with Iran despite US sanctions.
TEHRAN, November 09 - Saudi dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi, who was killed on October 2 in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, might have lost his life for disclosing Riyadh’s funding of an anti-Iran UK-based TV channel, the British daily Guardian suggests.
TEHRAN, November 09 - Iran’s oil exports to China reaches $15 billion, comprising one fourths of Iran’s whole oil sales, said a member of Iran-China Chamber of Commerce Hossein Pir-Moazen.
TEHRAN, November 09 - Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson took a swipe at “deceitful” US officials for trying to misrepresent the reality about the new sanctions on Iran and claiming that the hostile embargoes are not targeting the Iranian nation.
TEHRAN, November 08 - South Korea says it has reached a deal with Iran to use local currencies in mutual trade between the two countries instead of the US dollar
TEHRAN, November 07 - Japan leading crude oil wholesaler JXTG Holdings Incorporation says it is preparing to resume imports from Iran after the US issued a waiver for Tokyo to continue its purchases of oil from the Islamic Republic.
TEHRAN, November 08 - CEO of Iran Air Farzaneh Sharafbafi said the national flag-carrier airline has no problem in supplying fuel to its aviation fleet despite recent US sanctions against the Islamic Republic.
TEHRAN, November 08 - Earlier, the United States re-imposed a second portion of sanctions against Iran, with the latest measures concerning the country's oil exports among other things.
TEHRAN, November 08 - Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said his country would not abide by the renewed U.S. sanctions on Iran’s oil and shipping industries as they were aimed at “unbalancing the world”.
TEHRAN, November 08 - French Economy and Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire has pledged that Paris will attempt to lead the EU's efforts to defy Washington's sanctions against Iran and strengthen the international role of the euro.
TEHRAN, November 08 - Iranian envoy to London Hamid Baidi-Nejad said the US should stop military action and sanctions against countries opposing its policies.
TEHRAN, November 08 - Iran’s Minister of Petroleum Bijan Zangeneh says US sanction reprieves for some countries importing Iranian oil are not enough and oil consumers are set for “painful months” ahead because of insufficient supplies.
TEHRAN, November 08 - German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas on Wednesday called on European countries to resist US President Donald Trump's protectionist economic policies and unilateralist diplomacy with "Europe United".
TEHRAN, November 07 - Iraq will continue importing electricity and natural gas from Iran under an exemption from US sanctions, the special representative for Iran at the US State Department Brain Hook has said.