Foreign Policy

Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says prolonging the current crisis in the relations between certain countries in the Middle East is not in the interest of any regional state.

Commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps Major General Mohammad Ali Jafari says Saudi Arabia is supporting terrorists and has asked them to carry out operations in Iran.

A senior Iranian official says the Islamic Republic will not tolerate Saudi Arabia’s warmongering policies in the region.

An informed source at the European Union (EU) confirmed that Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has written a letter to the bloc’s Foreign Policy Chief Federica Mogherini on the implementation of the 2015 nuclear deal between Tehran and world powers.

Iranian foreign minister said the security of all countries in the Middle East, including Saudi Arabia, is important to the Islamic Republic, and called for the development of a permanent mechanism for establishing sustainable regional security.

Iranian foreign minister says extremism in the Middle East has its roots in the Salafism ideology, which is mainly promoted by Wahhabis of Saudi Arabia.

Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, the Leader of Iran’s Islamic Revolution, says the Americans' problem with Iran is the essence of Islamic Republic, and thus it is impossible to compromise with them.

Iranian foreign minister says the Astana Talks, an initiative by Iran, Russia, and Turkey to help settle the six-year crisis in Syria, has so far been the only fruitful process to restore peace to the war-torn country.

Political dialogue is the only way to reduce tension in the Mideast and resolve issues gripping the region, Iran’s Foreign Minister and the European Union’s Foreign Policy Chief said in a Monday meeting in Oslo.

Iranian foreign minister says the Islamic Republic’s export of food items to Qatar is part of normal trade relations between the two neighbouring countries amid the ongoing blockade imposed by Saudi Arabia and its allies on Qatar.

Iran’s foreign minister decried the wrong policy that Washington has adopted on Tehran after the US Senate’s move to approve a bill on new anti-Iran sanctions, saying he will raise the subject of the US breach of the JCPOA in a meeting with EU foreign policy chief in Oslo.

Iranian Foreign Minister says the new US administration has not sent promising signals on the implementation of JCPOA, the nuclear deal between Tehran and world powers, but it will ultimately have to abide by the deal as it is a multilateral agreement.

Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi has ruled out what is called a regional JCPOA between Iran and the Mideast countries to resolve the current woes.

Tehran has blasted the US Secretary of State for using a misnomer to refer to the Persian Gulf, and asked him to increase his knowledge of history.

Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, who is in Norway to attend the Oslo Forum, says the Middle East region is already fraught with tensions and needs no more turmoil, as a diplomatic crisis between several Arab countries in the region heats up.

Iran’s Parliament Speaker says the recent terrorist attacks in Tehran, which killed and wounded dozens of people, has increased unity among the Iranian nation and authorities.

Iran has dispatched several planes of food products to Qatar, which is short of food following a blockade imposed by Saudi Arabia and its Persian Gulf allies.

The US secretary of state has called “inhumane” the sanctions imposed on Qatar by a number of Arab states and expressed concerns over the impacts of the sanctions on trade ties between his country and Qatar. This comes as Washington continues to put considerable efforts into applying illegal sanctions on Iran.

Tehran and Stockholm have called for expansion of parliamentary ties as a prelude to broadening bilateral relations between the two countries in various fields.

Iranians recently launched an online campaign to teach the phrase “The Persian Gulf” to the US secretary of state!

The Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman says a referendum on the independence of the Iraqi Kurdistan region will just create more problems for the Arab country in a time when it needs peace and stability more than ever.

Wednesday's terrorist attacks in Tehran are not expected to have a noticeable impact on Iran's inbound tourism, as the incidents did not take place at a tourist spot, a tourism expert said.

Pope Francis, the head of the Roman Catholic Church, has condemned the recent deadly twin terrorist attacks in the Iranian capital, Tehran, offering condolences to those affected by the assaults.

A delegation from Palestinian resistance movement Hamas headed by the new leader of the movement’s political bureau, Ismail Haniya, plans to pay an official visit to Iran in the near future, according to a Hamas official.

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and the United Nations Secretary General António Guterres have discussed the recent twin terrorist attacks in Tehran and the latest developments in the Middle East.