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Iran’s Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani says US President Donald Trump’s recent anti-Iran speech showed strong traces of lobbying by the Israeli regime and Saudi Arabia.
British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson and Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif have held phone talks on the nuclear deal between Tehran and world powers, also known as JCPOA.
France says it remains determined to expand economic bonds with Iran even in the face of recent US threats against a landmark deal that helped resolve disputes over the country’s nuclear energy program in 2015.
A senior Iranian journalist and political analyst says the US president wants more concessions from the JCPOA, not the cancellation of the agreement signed between Tehran and world powers.
Iranian foreign ministry spokesman has denounced a deadly blast in the Somalian capital of Mogadishu, which has killed and wounded dozens of innocent people.
Iranian education minister has called on American teachers and educators to work more on teaching history and geography to their students amid the geographical and historical misinformation disseminated by US President Trump.
An Iranian political analyst says the Islamic Republic should not trust the Europeans in case the United States quits a nuclear deal between Tehran and world powers.
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says the country can quit the nuclear deal it has signed with world powers in case the other parties fail to do enough to secure Tehran’s interests.
Rahila Hameed Khan Durrani, the speaker of Provincial Assembly of Pakistan's Balochistan, and Iran's Deputy Foreign Minister Morteza Sarmadi have conferred on a range of issues in Tehran.
A senior Iranian commander says the US president is not in a position to make decision for the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps, and the IRGC is not going to decrease its activities given Trump’s new strategy.
Ebrahim Raisi, the conservative presidential candidate in Iran’s 2017 election, has lashed out at Trump’s anti-Tehran remarks, saying that the Iranian nation expects the government to show practical, rather than rhetorical, response to the US president’s statements.
Iranian parliament speaker has blasted US President Donald Trump’s anti-Iran rhetoric in recent days, saying such remarks tarnish the international images of the US.
Iran’s former president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has blasted Trump’s Friday statements against Iran, saying that showing humility towards arrogant enemies makes them more impolite and leads to more unfair and illegal claims by them.
A top Iranian Shiite cleric says Saudi Arabia has decided to adopt a different policy on Iran and this was evident in their recent behaviour towards Iranian Hajj pilgrims.
Following the US president’s Friday speech against Iran and its 2015 nuclear deal with world powers, members of the P5+1 and several other world figures and organizations voiced their strong support for the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).
Deputy Chief of Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces reaffirmed the country’s commitment to strengthening its defense capabilities to counter the “corrupt American regime” after US President Donald Trump’s Friday speech against the Islamic Republic.
Iran’s permanent mission to the UN, in a letter to Secretary General Antonio Guterres, has called for the circulation of Iran’s official reaction to the US president’s speech as a UN Security Council document.
An Iranian lawmaker says the annulment of the JCPOA will have little bearing on Iran’s economy as the Islamic Republic is shifting away from the greenback and common European currencies.
The Iranian president says if the nuclear deal between Tehran and world powers is consolidated, it can pave the way for Iran’s talks with the European Union on other issues as well.
Iran’s foreign ministry spokesman has reacted to the US Secretary of State's remarks on informing Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif of the new US strategy towards Tehran.
Iran’s president says the country will remain committed to the nuclear deal it has signed with world powers only if its interests are secured and the other parties live up to their commitments.
