Political Director of the French Foreign Ministry Nicolas de Riviere says Paris, London, and Berlin are working to overcome ‘unforeseen difficulties’ that have hindered the implementation of the Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV), the European payment mechanism aimed at facilitating trade with Iran.
Iranian Minister of Foreign Affairs Mohammad Javad Zarif is slated to travel to the Italian capital Rome on Wednesday evening to attend a high-level conference and hold talks with the country’s top officials.
British Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt was told in his Monday trip to Tehran that Iranian-British citizen Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe is a citizen of Iran, convicted based on Iran’s domestic law.
Danish Ambassador to Tehran Danny Annan will return to Iran on Wednesday and get back to work one month after being recalled by his government over an assassination plot blamed on Iran, an Iranian diplomat said.
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said Tehran is frustrated by the slow pace of EU moves to help Iran reap the full benefits of the JCPOA after Washington’s pullout from the international deal.
Iran’s deputy oil minister says Europe’s special payment channel, known as Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV), may be set up in France to facilitate trade with Tehran.
Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Seyyed Abbas Araqchi has travelled to the Italian capital Rome to hold talks on Europe’s special payment mechanism, known as Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV), which is aimed at enabling Iran to enjoy the economic benefits of the Iran nuclear deal.
Iran’s top diplomat says the European parties to the Iran nuclear deal hesitate to pay the economic costs for keeping the JCPOA in place, and that’s the reason for a delay in finalizing measures to salvage the pact.
Iran says its nuclear interactions with the European Union started following the 2015 nuclear accord will not be affected by unilateral sanctions imposed by the US, and the two will keep up working on nuclear-related projects for at least two years.
Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has held talks on a range of issues with André Haspels, the director general for political affairs at the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in Tehran.
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and Germany’s former top diplomat Sigmar Gabriel on Sunday sat for talks in Tehran on Europe’s measures to save the Iran nuclear deal.
French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian has assured his Iranian counterpart Mohammad Javad Zarif that the EU is working to ease doing business with Tehran.
Iran says it is in contact with UK authorities over possible risks threatening the life of The Guardian’s Iranian correspondent who revealed on Friday his secret phone call with Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi and information he received might have led to the dissident’s murder in Istanbul.
A huge number of tourists and tour operators, in defiance of US anti-Iran propaganda, visited Iranian pavilions at an international tourism event recently held in London.
Denmark says it has arrested three people for praising those behind a September terror attack in the southwestern Iranian city of Ahvaz that killed at least 25, including a four-year-old boy.
British and Norwegian top diplomats, in separate phone conversations with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif have discussed the latest developments in bilateral relations and the Iran nuclear deal.
Iran’s Intelligence Minister Mahmoud Alawi rejected the allegation raised by Denmark that Tehran has plotted an assassination attempt in the European country as an Israeli plot aimed at undermining the Islamic Republic’s ties with the European Union.
Iran’s Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi says the Islamic Republic has expressed its preparedness for all-out cooperation with Norway, Sweden, and Denmark to find the truth behind the recent assassination plots falsely blamed on Iran.
Iran’s envoy to the United Kingdom says the Islamic Republic is ready to provide legal help for Iranian journalists seeking to leave a Saudi-funded anti-Iran channel operating in London after they announced they have been warned against doing so.
Iran’s foreign ministry has condemned the re-imposition of US sanctions on the Islamic Republic, hailing a joint statement released Friday by the EU, France, Germany, and the UK in support of Iran.
France, the United Kingdom, Germany, and the European Union have, in a joint statement, condemned the US’ fresh sanctions on the Iranian economy, and vowed to protect European companies doing business with Tehran.
Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has held phone conversations with EU Foreign Policy Chief Federica Mogherini and his opposite numbers from Germany, Sweden and Denmark.
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has warned about the danger posed by US President Donald Trump to the world, urging European countries to work with Iran against Washington’s unilateralism.
Iran’s Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi says those who are in favour of rationality and are interested in preserving the Iran nuclear deal must know that the Islamic Republic cannot be the only side paying the price of something which is to the benefit of the whole world.
