The Iranian government’s official newspaper, “Iran”, says time is passing in favor of the Islamic Republic in the Vienna talks and this means Washington needs to back down and accept Iran’s demands.
A US-based scholar says Washington has been pursuing a policy of pressure and simultaneous efforts to reach an agreement with Tehran since the presidency of Bill Clinton (1993-2001), but both Iran and the United States have lost many opportunities to reach a compromise.
Ambassador and Permanent Representative of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the United Nations Majid Takht Ravanchi has stated that If Washington makes the correct decision, Tehran will cease its remedial actions vis-à-vis the nuclear deal. He made the remarks at the Tenth NPT Review Conference in New York on Wednesday.
The Iranian foreign ministry spokesman says the US move to impose new anti-Iran sanctions at a time when the Iranians have suffered heavy casualties and economic losses due to the recent floods clearly exposes the hypocritical nature of the US.
The commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps says the US has weakened to the extent that it no longer plays a role in the West Asia region’s geopolitical landscape and has shifted to Ukraine.
US Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman has said the Iran nuclear deal—formally known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA)—is not dead yet.
The United States wants to return to the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) with Iran after several rounds of extensive talks to revive the nuclear agreement, but it does not want to give any assurance that it will not breach the deal again, an Iranian lawmaker says.
US President Joe Biden’s trip to the Middle East to bring Saudi Arabia and Israel closer will make revival of Iran’s nuclear deal more complicated, a former Iranian diplomat says.
Iran’s foreign ministry spokesman warns that a joint US-Israel declaration issued during President Joe Biden’s visit to occupied al-Quds was not just addressed to Iran but to all Muslim and Arab countries, which would have to submit to Tel Aviv’s “military edge.”
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi says the Islamic Republic of Iran will not back down from its rightful stance in the talks over the revival of the nuclear deal, JCPOA.
An Iranian political expert has said tensions between Iran and the US will continue until the next meeting of the IAEA’s Board of Governors in early September.
The United States has denied visas to members of Iran’s national karate team, blocking their participation in the World Games in Birmingham in ‘yet another hostile political attack against the Iranian sports community.’
Iran’s Kayhan newspaper blasts Reformist figures inside the country for what it describes as backing the West in its attempts to pressure the Iranian government, saying the pro-Western camp tries to blame the deadlock in talks on the revival of the 2015 nuclear deal on Tehran’s negotiating team while it is in fact the US that is hindering the process.
An advisor to the Iranian nuclear negotiating team rejects Western claims that Iran’s demands from the US for a restoration of the 2015 nuclear deal are beyond the legal framework of the agreement, which has been in crisis due to Washington’s unilateral withdrawal.
Iran’s Kayhan daily says the United States neither seeks to remove the sanctions it imposed on the Islamic Republic nor provides Tehran with guarantees that it won’t violate its legal commitments again under the nuclear deal.
Iran and the United States have to show more flexibility to revive a nuclear agreement after former US president Donald Trump walked out of the deal, a political analyst says.
Iran says it is following up the case of the Iranians taken hostages by the United States over “false accusations” of bypassing sanctions imposed on the Islamic Republic.
The editor-in-chief of the principlist Kayhan Newspaper says the United States and its European allies seek nothing more than “futile negotiations” with Iran so that they can destabilize the country’s economy by provoking constant fluctuations in prices of foreign currencies and gold.
The Iranian foreign ministry spokesperson has quoted the European Union’s Foreign Policy Chief Josep Borrell as saying that the United States will abide by its commitments stipulated in a 2015 nuclear deal and UN Security Council Resolution 2231, adding Washington will guarantee the Islamic Republic’s economic interests.
The White House has announced it was aware of Iran’s satellite carrier launch and criticized the move as “unhelpful and destabilizing.” Tehran has stressed the tests have been conducted for research purposes only.
A former Iranian parliamentarian says Tehran and Washington have developed the political will to conclude an agreement as efforts are underway to revive the 2015 Iran nuclear deal known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).