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The Iranian foreign minister says the resolution of the remaining issues in the Vienna talks, which are red lines for Iran, is contingent on the will of the US side and its decision to avoid wasting time.
Iran’s Ambassador to Moscow Kazem Jalali says a new alliance involving Russia and China is burgeoning against the US.
Jalali made the comment at a virtual conference on the Iran-Russia ties.
Iran’s Ambassador to Baghdad says Sunday’s missile attack by the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps against targets in Iraq’s Kurdistan region was not an attack on Iraq’s sovereignty, but against a spying base belonging to the Israeli regime.
Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council Ali Shamkhani says Iranian negotiators will remain in Vienna until they reach a robust deal with the P4+1 group of countries and achieve the nation’s legal and logical rights. Shamkhani said this on his Twitter account on Monday.
The official newspaper of the Iranian government says the country should respond “with the necessary level of seriousness” to any threats from the Iraqi soil.
Ali Akbar Velayati, a senior advisor to Iran’s leader has strongly condemned the recent mass execution of people including teens in Saudi Arabia as a crime and blatant carnage.
Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman says Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian will pay a visit to Moscow on Tuesday to discuss regional developments and issues concerning the Vienna negotiations.
A former Iranian foreign minister says Israel should have known that the killing of two Iranian military advisers in Syria last week would not go unanswered.
The former spokesman for Iran’s Foreign Ministry has said the Islamic Republic has a right to demand explanation from Russia over the pause in the Vienna talks.
Iran’s Foreign Ministry Spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh, in reaction to the mass execution of people in Saudi Arabia, has said the move contravenes the basic principles of human rights and international law, violated humanitarian principles and accepted legal procedures, and was carried out without observing fair judicial proceedings.
The secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council has said the Iranian people have relearned from their more than 4-decade experience after the Islamic revolution that they cannot rely on the West and East for their rights and security.
An ex-Iranian lawmaker says the demands abruptly put on the negotiating table by Russia in Vienna are a “serious obstacle” to the conclusion of an agreement aimed at reviving the 2015 nuclear deal, adding that Moscow made such a move in coordination with Israel.
A court in Tehran has held a second session to hear plaintiffs demanding reparation in the case of the assassination of Iranian Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani.
Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh says there will be no new nuclear deal, JCPOA, following the Vienna talks. Khatibzadeh was speaking to a group of students in the city of Mashhad on Sunday.
A source with knowledge of Iran’s missile strike against the Zionists’ base in the Iraqi Kurdistan region in the early hours of Sunday has given more details about the attack that has been claimed by the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps.
The spokesman for the Iranian Parliament’s National Security and Foreign Policy Commission has said Russia is an ally of the Islamic Republic and it is acting to protect its national interests.
Iranian lawmakers have in a statement called on the country’s negotiating team in Vienna talks to avoid any measure to meet the US needs for lowered oil prices regardless of Iran’s demands.
The statement was issued by 160 MPs.
Iran’s former foreign ministry spokesman says the country’s economy should not be held back in anticipation of what might come out of negotiations underway in Vienna between Tehran and other signatories to the 2015 Iran nuclear deal.
