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Iran’s foreign minister has called for the lifting of the Saudi-led siege on Yemen as a prerequisite for the stability in the Middle Eastern country and the whole region.
A member of the Iranian parliament national security commission says Tehran is not empty-handed and will put other options on the table if the west “does not want to reach an agreement.”
A veteran Iranian journalist says the long-drawn out talks on Iran’s nuclear deal is in fact “beating the air” since the Western parties are not actually worried about Iran’s nuclear technology but they use it as a pretext to maintain economic pressure against the country.
Iran’s Jamaran news website has published parts of an interview with former Iranian President Hassan Rouhani that the interviewers plan to publish as part of a book titled “With No Smoke, Fire or Blood”.
Iranian daily Shargh has published an article calling on the government “not to waste the time of the country” with shaking its leg on the talks for a revival of the nuclear deal, if it does not want to return to the agreement.
A group of Iranian lawmakers write to President Ebrahim Raisi to caution his administration against possible US deception as part of a revived nuclear agreement, officially titled the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).
Nour News, a media outlet affiliated with Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, has denied a report by the Arab-speaking newspaper Asharq Al-Awsat claiming that Russian has called on Tehran to remove its troops from military bases in Syria.
An unknown source within the United States Department of State has stated that the administration of President Joe Biden sees an agreement with Tehran as the best possible option.
Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has warned that the global hegemonic system, spearheaded by the US, is bent on pitting the world’s Muslims against one another by drawing lines of separation between various faiths in Islam, urging vigilance in the face of such conspiracies.
An Iranian daily close to Iran’s reformists says the US will not be able to provide any legal guarantee to Tehran that it will not violate the 2015 nuclear deal again in case of its revival, and the best guarantee in the face of any future promise-breaking would be the country’s nuclear capabilities.
The commander of the Iranian Army’s Air Defense Force says the Islamic Republic is today in possession of the most advanced air defense hardware and is capable of monitoring thousands of kilometers beyond its borders.
An advisor to Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei says the ex-Iraqi regime’s Western-backed war on Iran in the 1980s taught the country not to engage in any negotiations over its defense power.
The spokesperson for the European Union’s foreign policy chief Josep Borrell says the parties to negotiations to restore Iran’s nuclear deal are looking into the Islamic Republic’s response to proposals to save the agreement.
An Iranian lawmaker says the ball is now in the court of the United States to take a constructive decision on whether it seeks a restoration of the 2015 multilateral nuclear deal, after Tehran submitted its response to the American comments on an EU-led text of possible final agreement.
Iran says it has submitted a “constructive” response to American comments on an EU-led draft of a possible deal on the restoration of the 2015 nuclear agreement to the European Union’s coordinator Josep Borrell.
The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC)’s chief commander praises Iran’s defense sector for achieving self-sufficiency despite the tough sanctions in place against the country, saying the Islamic Republic stands ready today to respond to any threat “at any level.”
A Canada-based academic criticizes the US administration for having killed time so far in the diplomatic process aimed at reviving the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, despite a call from many political elites in the American society for Washington to secure an agreement with Tehran.
