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Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian has said Iran’s move to inject gas into centrifuges was a response to the US’s latest sanctions on the Islamic Republic.
A Spokesman for the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran says the AEOI has injected gas into hundreds of centrifuges spinning at an enrichment facility of the Islamic Republic.
Iran’s Interior Minister Ahmad Vahidi has said that Afghan authorities should direct the country’s border guards to observe security considerations. This follows a brief armed clash between Iran and Afghan forces along the borders.
The Iranian foreign ministry spokesman says the US move to impose new anti-Iran sanctions at a time when the Iranians have suffered heavy casualties and economic losses due to the recent floods clearly exposes the hypocritical nature of the US.
Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian has stated that all parties to the nuclear talks aimed at the revival of the 2015 agreement are currently assessing a proposal put forward by EU Foreign Policy Chief Josep Borrell.
Iran’s atomic energy chief has echoed earlier remarks by another high-ranking Iranian official that the Islamic Republic has the technical means to produce an atomic bomb but has no intention to do so.
Iran’s deputy interior minister for security affairs says the Taliban officials should make sure Afghan border guards know the geographical limits and frontiers of the country, to prevent tensions that flare against the will of both sides.
Members of the Iranian parliament are seeking to draw up a comprehensive nuclear roadmap so that the change of administrations would not affect the nuclear program, Iran’s atomic energy chief says.
A spokesman for the Iranian parliament’s national security and foreign policy commission says the body passed the bill embodying a treaty for the transfer of convicts between Iran and Belgium.
Iran’s top negotiator in sanctions removal talks Ali Bagheri Kani says the Iranian side has put forth its proposed ideas to swiftly finalize the negotiations.
The ringleader of a terrorist cell calling itself Movement of Nadhal has confessed that the Swedish government and security officials of the European country, support him.
Iranian Students News Agency (ISNA) has quoted a member of the parliament’s national security and foreign policy commission’s presiding board as saying that a new round of sanctions removal talks could soon being in Vienna.
The commander of the aerospace division of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) says the space sector is extremely significant and a key ground for progress in other fields, stressing that Iran is now advancing quickly in the field of aerospace industries.
The chair of the Iranian parliament’s foreign relations committee says Europe is trying to act as a mediary in the talks for revival of the 2015 nuclear deal to help get Iran and the US agree on a solution and that is aimed at providing for the continent’s energy needs in the winter.
An Iranian lawmaker says a group of his colleagues have activated a motion for the impeachment of Ezzatollah Zarghami, the minister of Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts and Tourism.
Leader of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has offered condolences over the death of a number of Iranians in floods in parts of the country.
Deputy Head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) Pejman Shirmardi has said about 90 percent of the equipment in the field of nuclear technology has been domestically produced which is the result of the efforts by the Iranian scientists.
EU Foreign Policy Chief Josep Borrell says now is the time to save the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, JCPOA. Borrell made the comments in an Op-Ed published by the EU’s website.
Iran’s Intelligence Ministry says its forces have arrested a Swedish national on charges of espionage, after keeping the individual under surveillance during the foreign citizen’s several trips to the Islamic Republic.
An Iranian daily has put the administration of President Ebrahim Raisi’s administration under the magnifying glass after a year into office amid the runaway prices of goods in Iran, claiming its record is ‘not acceptable at all.’
