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Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps has claimed missile strikes on sites in Iraq’s Kurdistan Region saying the attacks hit “Zionists’ strategic centers” for their plots and villainy by powerful precision-strike missiles.
An Iranian official says local intelligence forces dealt a heavy blow to the largest Israeli espionage network in the northern western province of West Azarbaijan over the past month.
According to Nournew website, affiliated with Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, Tehran has unilaterally suspended negotiations with Saudi Arabia.
Iran’s foreign ministry spokesman says all parties are determined to return to the talks in Vienna on the revival of the 2015 nuclear deal, but it is not clear when that happens.
A Western journalist who closely follows the Vienna talks has quoted the European troika (France, Britain and Germany) as saying that the US and Iran have resolved their differences and that the nuclear deal must be immediately finalized.
The leader of Iran’s Islamic revolution has said in a message to Iranians students in Europe that the nation’s elite have special duties and responsibilities at this juncture when political and military developments are at a historic turn.
President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev has praised bilateral relations and cooperation with Iran on the 30th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic ties between the two neighbors.
Iran says it reserves the right to respond to Israel’s recent missile attack which left two Iranian military advisers dead in the Syrian capital Damascus.
An advisor to the Iranian negotiating team in Vienna says the key impediment to progress in the talks is the United States’ refusal to remove all sanctions imposed on Tehran.
The European Union’s representative in Vienna says the negotiating parties are “almost there” on reaching an agreement aimed at revitalizing the 2015 nuclear accord, after a pause was announced in the discussions.
The Iranian foreign ministry spokesman says a pause that has been announced in the Vienna talks could serve as a momentum for resolving all remaining issues and mark a final return to the negotiating table to revive the Iran nuclear deal, JCPOA.
A source familiar with the Vienna talks says the US sabotage of Iran’s economic benefits from the termination of sanctions is the main reason for the stalemate in the Vienna talks.
President Ebrahim Raisi of Iran reassures that his administration has been fully adhering to the framework and red lines set by Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei while pursuing the negotiations in Vienna on a possible revival of the 2015 nuclear deal.
Iran has held a mass funeral for two Iranian military advisers and members of the IRGC killed in an Israeli missile attack on the Syrian capital Damascus earlier this week.
The head of the Interests Section of the Islamic Republic of Iran in Egypt has responded to the Saudi ambassador’s accusations against Tehran, saying repeating baseless allegations against Iran will not resolve any of Saudi Arabia’s or the region’s problems.
The Iranian foreign minister has told the EU foreign policy chief and senior coordinator of the Vienna talks that making of new demands by the US has no logical justification and this contradicts the country’s stance on swiftly reaching an agreement.
Foreign Ministry Spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh has strongly criticized a meeting of Arab League foreign ministers, and the so called Arab Quartet Committee for their latest ‘absurd’ anti-Iran allegations.
The leader of Iran’s Islamic Revolution has warned against any move that could make the nation weak in the eyes of enemies including the United States.
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi says Iran’s success hinges on continued adherence to the teachings of the late founder of the Islamic Republic, Imam Khomeini.
The chief commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) says the elite military force is standing firm against all hostile conspiracies, stressing that the country has the upper hand in the face of its enemies.
An informed source says there are between three to four outstanding issues that still need to be resolved during the negotiations in Vienna on a possible restoration of the 2015 nuclear deal, criticizing the US for dragging its feet on addressing the differences.
Iran’s top security official says the talks underway in Vienna on a possible revitalization of the 2015 nuclear deal are “getting knottier by the hour” as the United States fails to take the necessary political decisions.
