Iranian Foreign Ministry slammed the new US sanctions against Iran, reiterating that the Islamic Republic is determined to use the post-sanctions opportunities to promote its policy of constructive interaction.
US President Barack Obama has lifted a decades-old ban on the export of civilian passenger aircraft to Iran as Tehran prepares to see sanctions relief.
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on Wednesday expressed his pleasure with the swift diplomatic resolution of the recent case of US sailors captured in Iran’s territorial waters, and expressed the hope that the issue would become a model for future cases.
The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) released ten US Navy sailors who had been captured inside Iran’s territorial waters in the Persian Gulf on Tuesday.
Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces Major General Hassan Firouzabadi said what happened to American sailors on Tuesday proved how vulnerable the US is in front of powerful Iranian forces.
10 US troops who were arrested by the IRGC Navy Tuesday in Iran’s territorial waters are expected to be released soon, the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps Navy Commander Rear Admiral Ali Fadavi announced.
A senior commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) says Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has demanded an apology from the United States for the recent trespassing by American naval forces on Iranian territorial waters.
Head of the IRGC Public Relations Department said the 10 US sailors captured aboard two combat vessels in Iran’s waters in the Persian Gulf are being interrogated, saying a “different approach” would be taken if they are proved to have intruded for intelligence operations.
The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Navy seized two US Navy combat vessels that had entered Iran’s territorial waters in the Persian Gulf on Tuesday, capturing 10 US sailors.
The chief of Iran's Basij (volunteer forces) Brigadier General, Mohammad Reza Naqdi, says Tehran must not lose focus of its main enemy, namely the US, warning that Washington seeks to downgrade the stature of the Islamic Republic's struggles to Riyadh's levels.
Iran’s Judiciary chief says US talks of of new sanctions against the Islamic Republic would force Tehran to reconsider implementation of a nuclear agreement reached last July.
An Islamic Revolution Guard Corps official has said that security and peace in the Persian Gulf is among serious strategies for the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Larijani said that Iran honors its commitments under the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), and tries to make sure that the deal is carried out properly.
Ali Shamkhani says the US cannot talk about trust building, and at the same time impose hostile restrictions on Iran or pass laws to illegally steal the Iranian nation’s assets.
Although it is not an important issue, it is aimed at harassment and is against the paragraphs 28 and 29 of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA)," Araghchi said.
In letters to his counterparts at the European Parliament and the parliaments of France, Britain, Germany, Russia and China, Alaeddin Boroujerdi said the new US law is “unfair and discriminatory” in nature.
Seif said the Central Bank of Iran (CBI) has a total of $2.5 billion frozen in New York, including the interest on top of the original $1.7 billion held in Citibank accounts.
Tehran has said that some US courts are making a travesty of justice and law, having sentenced Iran over the past few years to paying restitution to victims of terror acts carried out by known citizens of US allies.
If the law takes effect exactly as approved by the US Congress, it would amount to the breach of JCPOA, Zarif told a joint press conference with his Mongolian counterpart.
