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Iran FM Due in New York for Six-Day Visit

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Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif will visit the US city of New York on Thursday to attend a high-level UN meeting and a session of the Council on Foreign Relations.
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Iran Condemns UNHCR Extension of Special Rapporteur’s Mandate

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Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman has censured the adoption of an anti-Iran rights resolution at the meeting of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva extending the mandate of the special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Iran for another year.
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Iran Slams Discriminatory Approach to Aiding Fight against Illicit Drugs

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Iranian Interior Minister Abdolreza Rahmani Fazli deplored the discriminatory approach of international organizations in providing assistance to governments fighting against illicit drugs and called on all countries to meet their responsibility in this campaign.
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Iran Slams West’s Monopoly on Human Rights Bodies

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A senior Iranian official has called for amending the definition of human rights and the workings of rights institutions, lamenting that Western states have created a monopoly in the global rights bodies.
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Iranian Diplomat, UN Envoy Discuss Syria Peace in Geneva

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Hossein Jaberi Ansari, a senior assistant to Iran's foreign minister in political affairs, has held talks with the UN envoy for Syria as well as the heads of Russian and Turkish delegations in Geneva.
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Iran Rejects UN Chief’s “Biased, Worthless” Human Rights Report

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Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi has strongly dismissed as “invalid and worthless” the latest report by the UN secretary general on human rights situation in Iran.
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Possession of Nukes Should Be Regarded as Unethical: Iran

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Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister for Legal and International Affairs, Gholam-Hossein Dehqani, says possession of nuclear weapons should be regarded as unethical.
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Iran Hails Russia’s “Principled” Veto of UNSC Resolution

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Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov have held a phone conversation over a number of issues, including Moscow’s support for Iran in a recent UN Security Council meeting.
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UNSC’s Anti-Iran Resolution ‘Ugly Show’ to Support Saudis: Zarif

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Iran’s foreign minister has denounced certain member states of the UN Security Council for voting for an anti-Iran resolution that threatened the world body’s reputation.
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Iran Slams US, UK’s ‘Unconstructive’ Approaches at UNSC

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Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi has lashed out at the US and the UK for adopting ‘unconstructive’ approaches at the United Nation Security Council particularly over the past three years.
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Russia Vetoes UK-Drafted Anti-Iran Resolution at UNSC

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A UK-drafted resolution aimed at pressuring Iran over alleged weapons supplies to Yemeni fighters has failed at the UN Security Council.       
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Iran Parliament Urges Gov’t to Rethink Economic Ties with France, UK

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Iranian legislators have called on the president to reconsider plans to forge closer economic cooperation with France and the UK in protest at their roles in passing an anti-Iran UN resolution.
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Iran FM Meets World Officials on Sidelines of Munich Conference

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Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, who is in Germany to participate in the 54th edition of the Munich Security Conference (MSC), has held talks with several officials of different countries and world bodies.
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Iran FM, UN Official Discuss Issue of Sandstorms

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UN Under-Secretary General Shamshad Akhtar, who is also the Executive Secretary of the UN’s Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP), has held talks with Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif in Tehran.
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Iran, UN Sign Deal on Disaster Management

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Iran and the United Nations have signed an MoU to launch an office of the Asian and Pacific Centre for Development of Disaster Information Management (APDIM) in Tehran.
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Iran’s Jaberi Ansari, UN’s De Mistura Discuss Syria Peace

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Senior Advisor to Iran’s Foreign Minister in Political Affairs Hossein Jaberi Ansari and the UN’s Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura have sat for talks in Russia’s Sochi.
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Iran FM, UN Envoy Discuss Iraq Parliamentary Elections

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UN Secretary-General's special representative for Iraq Ján Kubiš has held talks with Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif in Tehran.
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Iranian Kurdish MPs Protest Turkish Invasion of Syria

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In a letter addressed to the UN Secretary General, the Kurdish lawmakers of the Iranian Parliament have lashed out at the international body’s silence over Turkey’s invasion of the Syrian Kurds.
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US Left High and Dry in Int’l Efforts to Isolate Iran

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The United States has been once again pushed into isolation at the recent UN Security Council as it tried to urge member states to give the nod to its anti-Iran plan.
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Zarif to Be Invited to Europe for Talks on Iran Protests

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The European Union has announced that it will invite Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif for talks over the recent riots in country.
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UNHCR Envoy Praises Iran’s Contributions to Refugees

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Sivanka Dhanapala, the outgoing representative of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Iran, has lauded the great efforts made by the Islamic Republic to help refugees and immigrants.
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Iran Blasts US for Abusing UN Security Council

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Iranian envoy to the UN has strongly criticized the Security Council for holding an emergency session on the developments in Iran at the request of the US, saying that Washington is abusing its power as a Permanent Member, and abusing the Council itself.
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UNSC Meeting another ‘Blunder’ for Trump Administration: Iran

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Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says the recent UN Security Council meeting on Iran developments was yet another stupid mistake made by the US administration.
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Haley Shedding Crocodile Tears over Iran Unrest: UN Envoy

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Iran's UN mission has released a statement strongly condemning comments made by US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley concerning the riots in the country.
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Iran Writes to UN to Declare Yes Vote on Myanmar Resolution

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In an official note to the Secretariat of the United Nations, the Islamic Republic of Iran has declared its yes vote to a UN General Assembly resolution on human rights violations in Myanmar.
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