Iran-US Relations

A top Iranian diplomat and a former nuclear negotiator says the Trump administration has backed down from its anti-JCPOA rhetoric in the face of Europe’s strong support for the historic deal.

Iranian foreign ministry spokesman has slammed Trump’s recent anti-Iran remarks, saying the US must speak to Iranian people with the language of respect.

Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and his deputies have arrived in New York City’s John F. Kennedy Airport Thursday afternoon (local time).

An Iranian military official derided US officials’ call for regime change in Iran as absolute nonsense, saying Iran would respond to such absurd remarks in practice.

A political analyst says Washington seeks to play down the Islamic Republic of Iran’s role in the recapture of Mosul from ISIS terrorists.

Iran’s Vice-President for Science and Technology Affairs Sorena Sattari deplored the US move to deny entry to and deport an Iranian cancer researcher and his family, saying such measures only cause frustration in the scientific community.

Iran’s foreign minister has departed for New York to participate in a high-level UN conference there, according to the foreign ministry spokesman.

Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi has dismissed the US Defence Secretary’s baseless claims about Tehran’s support for terrorism as well as the need for a ‘regime change’ in Iran.

Iran’s Defence Minister has lashed out at the recent ‘interventionist’ remarks by the US Secretary of Defence on “regime change” in Iran, saying such statements are similar to the words made by the sick during fits of delirium.

Iran’s Parliament Speaker says there must be no restriction on making investment in extraction of oil from the Caspian Sea.

Speaker of Iran’s Parliament Ali Larijani has denounced a recent anti-Iran decision by the US Senate, saying that Washington will pay a heavy price for such moves.

An Iranian admiral says the US warship that shot down the Iran Air Flight 655, killing all its 290 passengers and crew members back in 1988, intended to pulverize the airliner in the air.

Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) Ali Shamkhani stressed the need to prevent the US government from interfering in the internal affairs of Syria through enhanced coordination between Tehran and Moscow.

Major General Yahya Rahim Safavi, a top military aide to the Leader of Iran’s Islamic Revolution, says the recent diplomatic crisis between Saudi Arabia and Qatar is part of a plot hatched by the US.

The representative of Iran’s Leader at the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC), Ali Saeedi, says the US is using interaction as a trick to infiltrate into the Islamic Republic.

Iran’s foreign ministry has slammed a Canadian court’s decision to uphold a US court ruling against the Islamic Republic, calling it a breach of international law.

The UN special envoy on Syria in a meeting with Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister for Arab and African Affairs Hossein Jaberi Ansari has called for Tehran’s help in finding a solution to the crisis in Syria.

A political commentator has weighed in on the US double standards in reaction to two similar tragic incidents: the USSR’s shoot-down of a Korean airliner, and the US downing of an Iranian passenger plane.

While the French oil giant Total just signed a huge gas deal with Iran, American companies are deprived of Iran’s lucrative oil and gas market due to the restrictions imposed by the US administration.

Iran’s foreign ministry has released a statement to mark the 29th anniversary of the downing of an Iranian commercial airliner by a US Navy guided-missile cruiser back in 1988.

President Hassan Rouhani says Iran should exercise such foreign policy, which would rally the world behind it rather than behind the United States.

Iran’s defence minister says the restrictions imposed by the US will not put the brakes on the Iranian nation’s ongoing progress as the country has been under sanctions for the past four decades.

A senior Middle East security analyst has discussed why the Islamic Republic of Iran needs to enhance its defensive capabilities in a region full of threats and instability.

A senior Iranian lawmaker says the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) is an international deal which will not undergo any changes under any condition.

Iranian parliament speaker says the travel ban imposed by US President Donald Trump is unlikely to prevent the terrorists from entering the US as they seldom use their real identities for travelling to their target countries.