Participants in the Asia-Europe Meeting call for lifting sanctions on Iran

Participants in the Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) have reaffirmed their "collective support" for a multilateral nuclear agreement Iran signed with major world powers in 2015, saying the lifting of sanctions against Tehran is an essential part of the deal.

EU determined to save JCPOA despite US exit

European Union Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker says the bloc is determined to keep the 2015 nuclear agreement with Iran in place despite US withdrawal.

Neither Saudi Arabia nor others can replace Iranian oil in the global market: Iranian petroleum ...

Iran's Minister of Petroleum Bijan Zangeneh dismisses the rhetoric by the Saudi crown prince about Riyadh's capability to replace sanctions-hit Iranian oil, saying that the global market will never believe such claims.

Iranian Foreign Ministry welcomes ruling by the UN’s top court

The UN’s international court of justice on Wednesday reprimanded the US over its re-imposition of sanctions on Iran and ordered Washington to lift restrictive measures linked to humanitarian trade, food, medicine and civil aviation.

Rouhani slams the US’s withdrawal from the 2015 multilateral nuclear deal

Israeli settlers storm al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied al-Quds

Nearly a thousand Israeli settlers have stormed the al-Aqsa Mosque compound in the Israeli-occupied Old City of East Jerusalem al-Quds amid an escalation of acts of violence by Israeli forces and settlers against the Palestinian people.

President Rouhani says US sanctions amount to economic terrorism

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani says "unilateral and illegitimate" sanctions imposed by the United States against the Islamic Republic are tantamount to "economic terrorism" and are in violation of world nations’ right to progress.

United States going through one of the darkest periods in its history: President Rouhani

Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani says the United States is currently going through one of the darkest periods in its history