Iran-US Relations

Iran’s foreign minister decried the wrong policy that Washington has adopted on Tehran after the US Senate’s move to approve a bill on new anti-Iran sanctions, saying he will raise the subject of the US breach of the JCPOA in a meeting with EU foreign policy chief in Oslo.

Iranian Foreign Minister says the new US administration has not sent promising signals on the implementation of JCPOA, the nuclear deal between Tehran and world powers, but it will ultimately have to abide by the deal as it is a multilateral agreement.

Tehran has blasted the US Secretary of State for using a misnomer to refer to the Persian Gulf, and asked him to increase his knowledge of history.

Iran’s Parliament Speaker says the recent terrorist attacks in Tehran, which killed and wounded dozens of people, has increased unity among the Iranian nation and authorities.

The US secretary of state has called “inhumane” the sanctions imposed on Qatar by a number of Arab states and expressed concerns over the impacts of the sanctions on trade ties between his country and Qatar. This comes as Washington continues to put considerable efforts into applying illegal sanctions on Iran.

Iranians recently launched an online campaign to teach the phrase “The Persian Gulf” to the US secretary of state!

US President Donald Trump intends to nominate a staunch supporter of terrorists as the coordinator for counterterrorism at the State Department.

Iran's parliament chief Ali Larijani says the US move to impose new sanctions on Iran following twin terrorist attacks in Tehran proves that the Islamic Republic is facing two ISIS groups, one in the region and one at the international arena which is the US itself.

A senior commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) says the recent deadly terror attacks in Tehran were the outcome of a tripartite project by Saudi Arabia, Israel and the United States.

Leader of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei says the net result of the Wednesday’s terrorist attacks in Tehran is nothing but more hate for the US and Saudi governments.

Iran’s minister of foreign affairs says terrorists on Wednesday were proxies who attacked what their Saudi masters despised the most, namely the seat of democracy.

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has slammed the US president’s comments on Tehran terror attacks as “repugnant” after Donald Trump pointed the finger of blame at Iran itself, in a reaction which was met with criticism even at home.

Several hours after the twin terrorist attacks in Tehran, the US State Department released a statement to denounce the tragic incidents which killed at least 13 and wounded over 45.

Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi says the ongoing rift between Qatar and a number of Arab countries is not in the interests of any country in the Middle East, and Iran's Persian Gulf neighbours should resolve the issue through political means.

An Iranian official says the rift between Qatar and some other Arab countries is the preliminary result of US President Donald Trump’s visit to Saudi Arabia and his dance with the House of Saud.

Iranian officials have strongly criticized the US for withdrawing from the Paris Agreement on climate change, saying the ‘uncalculated’ and ‘unacceptable’ move shows the Trump administration’s irresponsibility towards the international community.

A former Iranian foreign minister says the talks between Iranian diplomats and the US president's advisor Brzezinski following the 1979 Revolution in Iran indirectly led to the seizure of US embassy in Tehran.

Michael D’Andrea, a CIA agent who oversaw the hunt for Osama bin Laden, has been named as the new chief of Iran operations at the US Central Intelligence Agency.

Iran says recent the remarks by a former American official about sanctions on Tehran have worried the giant plane manufacturers Airbus and Boeing, which have made big plane sale deals with the Islamic Republic.

Iran says the recent claims made by US Defense Secretary James Mattis against the Islamic Republic were reciprocation for Saudi Arabia’s profligacy during President Donald Trump’s visit to Riyadh.

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani’s main rival in Iran elections has hit out at the foreign policy adopted by his administration, saying remarks by some domestic authorities have led to the intensification of US bans on Tehran.

Fareed Zakaria, a senior Indian-American journalist, has criticized the US President’s anti-Iran allegations, saying almost all terrorist attacks in the West has had some connection to Saudi Arabia, and none of them has been linked to Iran.

A top Iranian official says terrorists in Syria and Iraq are just elements to implement the US policies in the Middle East.

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says unlike Saudi Arabia, the Islamic Republic of Iran is looking for a political solution to the ongoing crises in Syria and Iraq.

Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi rapped Trump’s recent anti-Iran remarks as ‘delusive and worn-out’, stressing that Iranophobia is a failed and futile policy.