TEHRAN, Apr 03 - The administration of US President Donald Trump is planning to impose additional sanctions on Iran that would target areas of its economy that have not been struck before, according to a senior administration official.
TEHRAN, Mar 11 - The president of Iraq voiced his country’s opposition to the US sanctions against Iran, saying Baghdad would do its utmost to relieve the pressure of sanctions imposed on the Iranian people.
TEHRAN, Mar 06 - Iraq’s Parliament Speaker Mohammed Al-Halbousi condemned the imposition of sanctions against Iran, also stressing that his country would never allow outsiders to use its territory for military action against any neighbor.
TEHRAN, Feb 26 - A senior Indian government official says his country plans to raise investment in Iran’s strategic Chabahar port, for which New Delhi has to circumvent US sanctions on Tehran.
TEHRAN, Jan 11 - Iran will not be complying with the “fully illegal” US sanctions, Iranian Oil Minister Bijan Zanganeh said on Thursday, in yet another defiant statement from Tehran after the American sanctions on Iran’s oil and shipping industry snapped back in early November.
TEHRAN, Jan 8 - Iranian First Vice-President Eshaq Jahangiri highlighted the ineffectiveness of the US sanctions against the Islamic Republic and said they will not last long.
TEHRAN, Jan 8 - Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says Iran is working with its traditional partners such as China, Russia and India to circumvent the US sanctions.
TEHRAN, Jan 4 - US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says Washington’s tough sanctions against the Islamic Republic are aimed at giving the Iranian people a chance to have better lives.
TEHRAN, December 19 - India has come up with a scheme to buffer Iran’s oil money against US sanctions after securing a waiver from Washington to continue oil imports from the Islamic Republic.
TEHRAN, November 23 - Iran says the US must lift its cruel sanctions on exports of humanitarian goods, including food and medicine, to Iran based on an October ruling by the International Court of Justice (ICJ).
TEHRAN, November 21 - Iran’s defense minister says the American sanctions have failed to slow down the nation’s progress, and that the country will manage to prevail over the conditions created by the bans at a fast pace.
TEHRAN, November 21 - Iran is stepping up production of precious metals to cushion its economy against the effects of new US sanctions which have triggered a flurry of panic buying of gold by some citizens.
TEHRAN, November 20 - Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says the US’s renewed campaign of pressure and sanctions will only strengthen the Iranian nation’s “resolve to resist,” and that his country will even “thrive” under such restrictive measures.
TEHRAN, November 20 - The Islamic Republic of Iran Medical Council (IRIMC) says illegal economic sanctions imposed by the United States against Tehran have negative impacts on the country's health sector, calling for an immediate and humanitarian solution to the issue.
TEHRAN, November 18 - A senior Iranian diplomat says the Islamic Republic has not become completely disappointed with Europe to help offset sanctions imposed by the United States on Tehran but it has devised several mechanisms for any possible scenario.
TEHRAN, November 16 - A senior Iranian official says the renewal of US sanctions against the Islamic Republic has “endangered” the 2015 nuclear deal between Tehran and world countries.
TEHRAN, November 14 - Tehran’s envoy to the UK says the US has failed to rally the world community behind its new sanctions against Iran, and that the Islamic Republic possesses “enough leverage” to keep its oil sales going despite US attempts to reduce them to “zero.”
TEHRAN, November 12 - Iraq’s newly elected president says it is in his country’s best interests to have “good and stable relations” with Iran, urging the United States to consider Baghdad’s political and economic position in talks about imposed sanctions on Iran.
TEHRAN, November 11 - Iran’s economy minister said the prime objective of the US sanctions against the country is to create division between the Iranian people and government and incite frustration in the society.
TEHRAN, November 09 - The impacts of fresh US sanctions on Iran have been cushioned by high oil prices and Washington’s international isolation, with Tehran being better placed to weather the storm, a Reuters analysis says.