Iran Sanctions

The Iranian foreign minister says unlike what the US claims, there is no “snapback” mechanism in UN Security Council Resolution 2231 to reinstate international sanctions on Iran.

Iran’s health minister says an Indian company is to sell the coronavirus vaccine to the Islamic Republic.

Iran’s representative in the International Court of Justice has rejected what he calls "inadmissible" reasons the US government has given to challenge the ICJ’s jurisdiction to consider a complaint lodged by Tehran against the re-imposition of American sanctions.

The Iranian president says the United States will suffer a humiliating defeat this weekend, which marks the day when the US claims all UN sanctions against Iran will return.

The Iranian petroleum minister says Tehran welcomes barter trade in the oil sector now that the country is under the harshest sanctions ever.

The Iranian president has lashed out at the US for pressuring countries into blocking Iranian assets to prevent it from buying medicines and medical equipment.

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has held phone talks with Louis Straker, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Commerce of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.

The Iranian president says a top priority for the government is to provide medicines for people amid the tough economic situation caused by sanctions.

Iran’s Defence Minister has downplayed the US efforts to have the UN’s arms embargo extended against Iran, saying the Islamic Republic is currently producing the majority of its defence equipment despite the sanctions.

Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani says the enemies are once again testing the Iranian nation’s will, but the people have resisted all pressures and will not let them achieve their goals.

Iran’s health minister has, in a letter to the World Health Organization (WHO), called for a global campaign to end the US illegal and unilateral sanctions against the Islamic Republic of Iran.

President Hassan Rouhani says history has shown that the Iranian people never surrender to the bullying and coercion by any power.

Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and Ignazio Cassis, the head of Switzerland’s Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (FDFA), had a meeting in Tehran.

Iran says it will give a proportionate response if signatories to the Iran nuclear deal, officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), fail to fulfill their commitments under the agreement.

An Iranian Defence Ministry official says the domestic aviation industries have made such great progress in recent years that Iran is now able to fulfill the demands of other countries for various systems.

A senior Iranian official says measures adopted by the US against Iran have no legal foundation and is doomed to failure.

An Iranian official says the United States keeps dreaming if it can reinstate sanctions on Iran, but that is not going to come true.

Iran's Ambassador to the United Nations Majid Takht Ravanchi says the legal arguments by the majority of UN Security Council member states and its president clearly indicate that the US is not authorized to use snapback mechanism against Iran.

An Iranian official says the United States’ desperate attempt at the United Nations to bring back a UN arms embargo as well as sanctions on Iran is doomed to fail.

Iran has rejected US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's claim about the “snapback" mechanism, saying the US top diplomat is living in a parallel universe.

A senior Iranian official says the United States has little chance of convincing the UN to agree to its demand that international sanctions on Iran be reinstated.

The Iranian president says the United States' back-to-back defeats at the UN Security Council are a result of the Iranian nation's resistance.

Iran’s government spokesman says the word “snapback” has never been used in the Iran nuclear deal, officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) or the UN Security Council Resolution 2231.

Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has, in a letter to the chairman of the UN Security Council, blasted the US' attempt to return the UNSC sanctions on Iran, reiterating that the US has no right to reapply provisions of a deal it has already left.

Iran’s Defence Ministry has unveiled a surface-to-surface ballistic missile, named after the late IRGC commander Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani, with a range of 1,400 kilometres.