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Russia’s attack on Ukraine will definitely affect Moscow’s ties with Europe and the United States. Some political analysts believe the development could even negatively affect the Vienna talks on the revival of the Iran nuclear deal.
Russia’s chief negotiator in the Vienna talks Mikhail Ulyanov has said the P4+1 group of countries is awaiting the return of Iran’s top negotiator Ali Bagheri so the two sides can finalize an agreement to revive the 2015 Iran nuclear deal.
The secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council has said he held talks with his British counterpart Sir Stephen Lovegrove over the phone on Sunday afternoon.
The Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman says the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) must close the case of “political” claims against Tehran’s nuclear work, as negotiations continue in Vienna on the revival of the 2015 nuclear agreement.
Iranian Foreign Minister has dismissed US claims that its withdrawal from Afghanistan had all been planned beforehand. Hossein Amir Abdollahian said Americans would not have opted for such an "embarrassing" pullout if they had other choices.
The small number of Iranian citizens remaining in Kiev are settled down in safe places, Foreign Ministry Spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh stated Saturday night.
Iran’s ambassador to Kiev says arrangements have been made through the good offices of Tehran to facilitate the return home of Iranian nationals residing in Ukraine.
Iran’s Constitutional Council also known as the Guardian Council has given the go-ahead to a project to transfer water from the Sea of Oman to the southeastern Iranian province of Sistan-Baluchestan.
Iran’s ambassador to Kiev says the necessary arrangements have been made with Tehran to run exclusive flights to take Iranian nationals back home from Ukraine.
China’s lead negotiator to the Vienna talks says developments in Ukraine will not affect the negotiations between Iran and the P4+1 group in the Austrian capital.
Iran’s ambassador to Ukraine has paid a visit to the shelter where a group of Iranian students are taking refuge in the capital, Kiev, which is bracing for clashes with Russian military forces.
The Iranian foreign minister, in a phone conversation with his Russia counterpart, has called of a political solution to the ongoing crisis in Ukraine.
As Kiev appears set to fall to incoming Russian forces, Iranian social media users are drawing attention to the discrepancy between the resistance put up by the Iranian nation when Iraq invaded Iran in 1980 and what they call the disinclination by the Ukrainian people to defend their country at all.
The head of Iran’s Aviation Organization has said the country is ready to send a passenger plane to Poland to return Iranian nationals from Ukraine. Mohammad Mohammadi Bakhsh said officials are awaiting a permit to do so.
The director of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran has said the country has been a member of the UN atomic watchdog, IAEA, for 47 years but it has received no assistance to develop its peaceful nuclear program.
An image has been circulating on social media of what is said to be private notes of an individual who was present at the recent closed-door meeting between the Iranian president and the Qatar emir in Doha, which lays down Tehran’s response to an indirect message from the U.S.
Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi, in a phone call with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, reiterated NATO’S eastward expansion is the source of tension and poses a serious threat to the stability and security of independent countries in different regions.
The Iranian foreign ministry spokesman has expressed regret over the start of military actions and the escalation of hostilities in Ukraine, calling for the establishment of a ceasefire.
The Iranian Parliament’s Presiding Board has annulled a decision by a special joint committee to approve a controversial piece of legislation to regulate online activity.
The secretary of the Supreme National Security Council of Iran says the Vienna talks on the revival of the 2015 nuclear deal will not bear results without western sides making the required decisions.
