Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani says Tehran’s answer to an offer of bilateral talks with the United States will always be negative, but the US can join multilateral negotiations between Iran and other world powers.
Iranian Government Spokesman Ali Rabiei has confirmed media reports about an explosion in a satellite launch platform in Iran’s Semnan province, citing a “technical mistake” for the blast.
Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister for Political Affairs Seyyed Abbas Araqchi says the US has shown some "flexibility" regarding the easing of Iran oil sanctions during a recent meeting with the French president.
Iran has shown Nahid 1 (Venus 1) telecommunication satellite to journalists and photographers, refuting US President Donald Trump's claim of the spacecraft's failed launch.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has scrambled to make sure US President Trump wouldn’t meet Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif while he was making his way to France for a surprise visit at the G7 summit on Sunday, US and Israeli officials say.
Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman says the Ministry will soon provide relevant Iranian authorities with the first list of individuals to be sanctioned for cooperating with the anti-Iran Foundation for Defence of Democracies (FDD).
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says the United States must return to JCPOA the 2015 nuclear deal and stop engaging in "economic terrorism" against the Iranian people if it wants to meet for talks.
A senior Iranian military commander says the country’s deterrence power kept Washington from taking any action after Iran shot down an American unmanned aerial vehicle.
Iranian Foreign Minister Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says no meeting is conceivable between the presidents of Iran and the United States as long as Washington does not comply with the Iran nuclear deal.
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has suggested that he would meet even his American counterpart Donald Trump if such talks would secure Iran's interests.
Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman has shrugged off the fuss that the US has raised over the blacklisting of the Foundation for Defence of Democracies (FDD), stressing that Tehran spares no effort to safeguard the interests of Iranians against the hostile parties.
Governor of the Central Bank of Iran (CBI) Abdonnaser Hemmati highlighted the ineffectiveness of US sanctions against the Islamic Republic and said Washington has failed in its campaign of maximum pressure on Tehran.
Iran's Foreign Ministry says it has added the Foundation for Defence of Democracies (FDD) and its director Mark Dubowitz to its list of sanctions over their role in endangering the Iranian people's security and vital interests.
Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Seyyed Abbas Mousavi has expressed concern over the United States’ recent test of a medium-range missile, which came shortly after its withdrawal from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty with Russia.
An Iranian Army general says the domestically-built missile defense system “Bavar-373” is much better than the US Patriot system and its Russian counterpart S-300.
Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Commander Major General Hossein Salami highlighted the positive effect of US sanctions against Iran and said they have helped the Islamic Republic to reached its economic and political independence.
Iran’s president has downplayed the US administration’s efforts to defeat the Islamic Republic through its “maximum pressure” policy, saying Donald Trump and the Republican Party will soon lose their power while the Islamic Republic is still in power.
Iran’s ambassador to the United Nations slammed the US military presence in the Middle East as a root cause of instability and insecurity, saying American arms sales have turned the region into a powder keg.