Iranian Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi condemned US withdrawal from the 2015 nuclear deal and its aerial attack against Tehran's nuclear installations, and stressed that Washington should cease its excessive and coercive approaches and be held accountable for its actions.
Iran’s Foreign Ministry confirmed on Tuesday that Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi will travel to France this week for high-level discussions, following his participation in the annual conference of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) in The Hague.
French President Emmanuel Macron has held a phone conversation with his Iranian counterpart Masoud Pezeshkian, during which the French side expressed his intention to help create a new framework for negotiations aimed at achieving a clear outcome between Iran and Western countries over Tehran’s nuclear program.
President Emmanuel Macron of France has held a video call with two French citizens recently released from Evin Prison in Tehran, French officials confirmed on Wednesday.
The Iranian Foreign Ministry announced that Mahdieh Esfandiari, an Iranian citizen detained in France since early 2025, has been granted conditional release by a French court.
Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister for Consular, Parliamentary, and Iranian Affairs, Vahid Jalalzadeh, criticized France over the detention of Iranian citizen Mahdieh Esfandiari, slamming the action as “hostage-taking” and inconsistent with Paris’s human rights claims.
Branch of the Islamic Revolution Court of Tehran has issued its preliminary verdict against two French nationals arrested on espionage charges in March 2023.
The Iranian Foreign Ministry announced on Thursday that French citizen Lennart Monterlos, who had been detained in Iran on charges of anti-security activities, has been acquitted and released following a court ruling.
Iran’s Executive Vice President Mohammad Jafar Ghaempanah says the country has no plans to expel the ambassadors of the three European states that have activated the so-called Snapback mechanism.
In response to an action by the three European countries in misusing the JCPOA dispute resolution mechanism to reinstate previously terminated United Nations Security Council resolutions, the ambassadors of Iran in Germany, France, and the United Kingdom have been recalled to Tehran for consultations.
Iranian President Massoud Pezeshkian said a “frank and extensive” conversation with French President Emmanuel Macron has opened a path toward resolving European concerns while safeguarding Iran’s interests.
Iran’s Foreign Minister, Seyed Abbas Araqchi, in a phone call with his French counterpart, stressed that the activation of the so-called snapback mechanism by European countries- France, Germany, and Britain- at the UN Security Council lacks any political or legal legitimacy, warning the move, aimed at reinstating anti-Iran UN sanctions, would escalate tensions and deepen the crisis.
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has called on the United Nations nuclear agency to avoid double standards and uphold the rights of all member states without discrimination.
Tehran has hit out at Berlin and Paris for supporting Israel’s blatant onslaught against Iran and distorting facts about the Islamic Republic’s peaceful nuclear activities.
Tehran has summoned the French chargé d'affaires to protest meddlesome remarks by the European country’s foreign minister after an Iranian film won an award at the Cannes film festival.
Iran's ambassador to the United Nations has condemned the French foreign minister's explicit threat to reinstate sanctions on Tehran that were lifted under the 2015 nuclear deal.
Iranian Foreign Ministry has summoned the ambassadors of the UK, France and Germany in protest against "the collusion" of the trio with the US in "misusing the mechanisms of the UN Security Council" to hold a closed-door meeting on Iran’s nuclear program.
Iran's Foreign Ministry has dismissed remarks by the French President Emmanuel Macron who accused Tehran of involvement in the war between Russia and Ukraine.
The spokesperson for the Iranian Foreign Ministry categorically dismissed the recent remarks by the French President regarding Iran’s nuclear program, its regional policy as well as Tehran’s alleged military support for Russia in the Ukraine war as baseless, contradictory, and diversionary.
French President Emmanuel Macron has raised concern over Tehran’s nuclear programme, describing Iran as the main “strategic and security challenge” for Europeans in the Middle East.
The Iranian Embassy in France has provided details regarding the tragic shooting that claimed the lives of two Iranian citizens in Dunkirk, northwestern France.
