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The Iranian government spokesman says the negotiations underway in the Austrian capital, Vienna, have nothing to do with the upcoming presidential elections in Iran.
Iran has reacted to comments by Mikhail Ulyanov, Russia’s representative at the JCPOA Joint Commission, who has indicated that the current negotiations in Vienna could be the last and final round of talks.
Saeed Jalili, a member of Iran’s Expediency Council who is running for president, says negotiation is not the only way forward to remove anti-Iran sanctions.
Head of the Atomic Energy Organisation of Iran (AEOI) Ali-Akbar Salehi has in a letter to Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency Rafael Mariano Grossi reaffirmed Iran's full cooperation with the IAEA, according to Iran's envoy to international organisations in Vienna.
In the past few days and since the plenary meeting of the JCPOA Joint Commission, several bilateral and multilateral meetings have been held at the level of deputies and political directors, and also at the level of experts between the Iranian delegation and the negotiating teams of the European Union, the three European countries, China and Russia.
Iran's Foreign Ministry Spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh has expressed sympathy with Canada's Indigenous community over the newly-discovered "genocide" of Indigenous children, urging the Ottawa government to think of its dark past before claiming to be an advocate of human rights.
Benjamin Briere, a French man who has been detained in Iran since May 2020, will be tried for espionage and propaganda against the Islamic Republic, according to his lawyer.
An Iranian political analyst says the Rouhani administration must make the Parliament endorse any potential deal with world powers now that negotiations in Vienna on the United States’ return to the 2015 nuclear deal seem to be going through their final stages.
An Iranian presidential contender says if he is elected president, the Americans will beg to rejoin the 2015 nuclear deal known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Republic of Iran has, in a statement, congratulated the Syrian nation and government on the successful elections held in the country and the victory of Bashar al-Assad.
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif met with Armenia’s caretaker Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan in the country’s capital Yerevan, where they discussed bilateral ties and the regional situation.
The Iranian president has warned that it will be forbidden to mine digital currencies until the end of summer as it puts a huge burden on the national power grid.
Iran's Foreign Minister has, in separate messages, congratulated Sayyid Hassan Nasrallah, the secretary general of the Lebanese resistance movement Hezbollah, and Zeina Akar, the acting foreign minister of Lebanon, on the Eid of resistance and freedom and the anniversary of the victorious liberation of Southern Lebanon from the Israeli occupation forces through the bravery and devotion of resistance fighters.
A spokesman for the Iranian Reformist Front says the reformists will not be part of the upcoming presidential elections as none of their candidates has been qualified by the Guardian Council to run for president.
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, in a message to his Lebanese counterpart Michel Aoun, extends congratulations to the government and people of Lebanon on the anniversary of liberation of its southern parts from Israeli military occupation.
Speaking in a telephone conversation on Monday, President Hassan Rouhani stressed the importance of close cooperation between the two countries on international issues especially in fighting the Cold War and the United States and their western allies' coalition-making against independent countries like Iran and China.
Kazem Gharibabadi, the Iranian Ambassador to International Organisations in Vienna, says Tehran has informed the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) of its decision to extend an earlier deal with the UN's nuclear watchdog for one more month at most.
