Iran Sanctions

The Iranian president says who takes the reins at the White House as the next US president is unimportant to Iran, but what matters is the policy he adopts.

Iran has asked the United States to comply with the temporary verdict issued by the International Court of Justice in The Hague over Tehran’s case against Washington.

A senior Iranian military commander says hegemonic powers should be awaiting harsh vengeance on a par with the US assassination of top Iranian military official Major General Qassem Soleimani.

Iranian Deputy Foreign for Economic Diplomacy Gholam-Reza Ansari has met with his Russian counterpart Alexander Pankin via videoconference.

China’s ambassador to Tehran says his country will remain committed to its international obligations when it comes to the export of military equipment.

The Iranian government spokesman says the country regards the United States’ new sanctions as an unfair move, yet they will have no bearing on Iran’s activities.

The Iranian government spokesman says efforts are being made to bring back Iranian foreign currency assets deposited at banks of other countries.

The Iranian government spokesman says the United States’ so-called “maximum-pressure” policy has failed, and now the time is ripe for the US government to stop its arrogance.

Iranian Oil Minister Bijan Namdar Zanganeh, who has been blacklisted by the US Treasury Department, brushed off the new sanctions as a testimony to Washington’s failure to drive Iranian oil exports down to zero.

Iran's Ministry of Foreign Affairs says the US government's sanctions against the Iranian nation have made the Coronavirus pandemic even more deadly and brutal in Iran.

The Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has, in a statement, slapped sanctions on a number of US authorities in reaction to similar sanctions imposed by the US against Iran's ambassador to Iraq.

The termination of the UN arms embargo on Iran marks a victory for rationalism and rule of law against force and bullying, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has said.

The spokesperson for the Iranian government says the Islamic Republic would never enter a regional arms race despite the termination of the UN arms embargo on Tehran, taking a swipe at the US for turning the region into a stockpile of weapons.

The spokesperson for the Iranian government says the Islamic Republic’s struggle against the US plots is yielding results in various fields.

Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Saeed Khatibzadeh says even the US politicians admit that the unilateral sanctions on Iran have been futile.

Iran’s defence minister says the country is capable of producing 90 percent of its defence needs domestically, and that is a bitter pill to swallow for Washington.

A Boeing-747 cargo plane carrying live sheep has made an emergency landing in Iran after experiencing technical difficulties.

Iran’s ambassador to Britain says the expiration of the UN arms embargo on Tehran is yet another achievement of the 2015 Iran nuclear deal.

A senior Iranian official says with the termination of the UN arms embargo on Tehran, no one can refer to sanctions as a pretext to seize weapons of Iranian origin in other countries.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Republic of Iran has released a statement to announce the termination of the UN Security Council's provisions on arms restrictions against Iran.

The Food and Drug Administration of Iran says the 19 truckloads of medicines seized in Iraq were not Iranian, and had only been transferred via Iran.

The Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) says the country will press ahead with using nuclear energy for peaceful purposes regardless of Washington’s baseless allegations in that regard.

An Iranian diplomat says the country has “many friends” and partners to start trading in armaments with them in line with its national interests days before a decade-old United Nations arms embargo against Tehran expires.

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has called on Tehran’s trade partners to fulfil their legal and ethical commitments towards the Islamic Republic.

Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif had a phone conversation with his Japanese counterpart Toshimitsu Motegi on Tuesday, October 13, 2020.