Foreign Policy

Iran’s first vice-president has ruled out holding talks with the Donald Trump administration, saying the increasingly antagonistic stance of the US on Iran shows such talks will bear no fruits.

Saudi Arabia has freed three Iranian fishermen detained by the kingdom's coastguard last year, the director of public relations at Iran's Bushehr Province Fishery Department says.

The Iranian foreign ministry says the recent convention signed by Iran, Turkmenistan, Russia, Kazakhstan, and Azerbaijan Republic on the Caspian Sea’s legal regime ensures the interests of all the five nations.

Iran’s new envoy and Permanent Representative to the United Nations Office at Geneva says the 2015 nuclear deal proved Tehran remains committed to the UN charter principles.

Iran’s Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi has expressed regret over the deadly collapse of a giant motorway bridge in the Italian city of Genoa.

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Jazad Zarif has congratulated Lebanon on the 12th anniversary of the Arab country’s victory in a war waged by the Israeli regime in 2006.

Pakistan’s prime minister-in-waiting Imran Khan is going to visit Tehran following his swearing-in ceremony, which is to be held later this month.

Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson denied as invalid the comments by Rajab Safarov about Iran’s share of the Caspian Sea, saying no such person has ever been involved in the team of Russian negotiators.

Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, the Leader of Iran’s Islamic Revolution, has shrugged off the US’ war rhetoric against Iran, reassuring the nation that there will be no war coming, nor will Iran sit for talks with the untrustworthy US.

Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi has strongly denounced a recent terrorist operation in Jordan, which left several people dead and wounded.

President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev condemned the US sanctions against Iran, saying his country treats Iran like a brother and in accordance with the international law.

The Iranian vice-president for legal affairs says the US must pay Iran over $110 billion in unpaid compensation over the damages it caused to the Iranian nation.

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani and his Russian counterpart have held talks on the sidelines of a Caspian Sea Summit held in the Kazakh city of Aktau.

Leaders of five Caspian Sea littoral states – Iran, Russia, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, and Turkmenistan – on Sunday inked a historic Convention on the Legal Regime of the Caspian Sea as well as six other strategic and economic pacts.

Iran’s Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi has rejected the claim that the demarcation of the Caspian Sea is to be finalized in a meeting underway in Kazakhstan on Sunday, August 12.

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani is in the Kazakh port city of Aktau to attend the fifth summit of the leaders of five states bordering the Caspian Sea, during which a long-awaited convention on the legal status of the sea is to be signed.

Amid a worsening dispute between the United States and Turkey, Iran says it will always stand by its neighboring country and provide it with any required help.

Iranian Ambassador to Iraq Iraj Masjedi says the recent remarks by Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi on his country’s compliance with the US sanctions on Iran will have no impact on bilateral ties between the two neighbouring countries.

Iran’s ambassador to Vienna-based international organizations, Kazem Gharibabadi, voiced the country’s strong opposition to any arms race or deployment of weapons to outer space.

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has censured US President Donald Trump’s move on Friday to double metals tariffs on Turkey, warning Washington has to put aside its addiction to sanctions or face the world in the near future.

Top Iranian diplomat Mohammad Javad Zarif says no meeting between Iranian and US officials is scheduled to be held on the sidelines of this year’s UN General Assembly at the UN headquarters in New York.

The newly-appointed Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan is going to visit Tehran in the near future, an Armenian official announced.

Japan’s Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Taro Aso says Tokyo has underlined the importance of its mutual ties and oil trade with Tehran during its talks with the US.

The Swiss government has promised to defend the economic interests of its companies that are active in Iran and would be targeted by renewed US sanctions, recommending that they go on with their business in the Islamic Republic.

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani’s Chief of Staff Mahmoud Vaezi has met Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in the capital city Ankara and delivered Rouhani’s message to him.