TEHRAN, August 8 -German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas has criticized Washington’s re-imposition of sanctions against Tehran, pledging to work to guarantee the survival of the Iran nuclear agreement abandoned by the US in defiance of opposition from other parties to the deal.
TEHRAN, August 8 -Only a day after the US started to restore sanctions against Iran, the country appears to be speeding efforts to find ways around the bans – ways that include the development of an indigenous cryptocurrency.
TEHRAN, August 8 - About 35,000 candidates will contest the town council elections next month in Syria's first local polls since 2011, when the country plunged into a foreign-backed crisis.
TEHRAN, August 8 -Israeli officials have approved plans for the construction of three new settlements in the Negev desert irrespective of the international outcry against the Tel Aviv regime’s land expropriation and settlement expansion policies in occupied Palestinian territories.
TEHRAN, August 8 - Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says the Islamic Republic cannot trust the US to sit with it again in any possible negotiations as Washington has been pursuing “erratic policies” in dealing with Tehran.
TEHRAN, August 7 -The chairman of Britain's governing Conservative Party told former UK foreign minister Boris Johnson to say sorry for Islamophobic comments he made about Muslim women wearing the burqa.
TEHRAN, August 7 -Malaysia's new government has ordered the immediate closure of a Saudi-backed anti-terrorism center, less than 13 months after it was launched in Kuala Lumpur.
TEHRAN, August 7 -The United Nations children’s agency, UNICEF, has warned that a fresh cholera outbreak is spreading quickly in Yemen’s vital seaport of Hudaydah, amid ongoing attacks by the Saudi-led coalition against the besieged provincial capital.
TEHRAN, August 7 -Russia says it was "deeply disappointed" by US President Donald Trump's move to re-impose unilateral sanctions on Tehran, vowing to make its utmost efforts to save a landmark nuclear agreement Iran signed with the P5+1 group of countries in 2015.
TEHRAN, August 7 -An Israeli military court has handed down a jail term of 18 months to an Palestinian minor as the number of Palestinian children being held in Tel Aviv regime’s prisons and detention facilities is soaring following US President Donald Trump’s decision to recognize Jerusalem al-Quds as Israel’s capital and relocate the US embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to the occupied city.
TEHRAN, August 7 -The main farmers union in the United Kingdom has warned that the country will quickly run out of food if it leaves the European Union next year without a Brexit deal.
TEHRAN, August 7 -Terrified holidaymakers rushed for boats and planes to leave Indonesia's Lombok Island Tuesday after it suffered a second deadly quake within a week, as rescuers scrambled to reach remote areas where survivors are in urgent need of food and shelter.
TEHRAN, August 7 -A federal judge in New Orleans on Friday said it is unconstitutional to incarcerate people who owe fines due to criminal convictions without giving them a chance to plead poverty in a "neutral forum."
TEHRAN, August 6 - Iranian President Hassan Rouhani says the US administration is no more able to prove its trustworthiness for any negotiations after its withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal and a number of other international treaties.
TEHRAN, August 6 -Syrian army warplanes have launched airstrikes against the positions of the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group in the country’s southwestern province of Sweida and those of the Jabhat Fateh al-Sham Takfiri terrorist group, formerly known as al-Nusra Front, in the central province of Hama.
TEHRAN, August 6 -US President Donald Trump has signed an executive order reimposing many sanctions on Iran to levy "maximum economic pressure" on the Islamic Republic.
TEHRAN, August 6 -Germany says it will continue to support companies over their Iran business activities in face of returning US sanctions and also warned that EU firms – including enterprises in Berlin – could sue the administration of President Donald Trump if they suffer losses due to sanctions.
TEHRAN, August 6 -As the United States is preparing to restore sanctions against Iran, Europe says it would act to protect its companies that do business with Iran against Washington’s potential punitive measures.
TEHRAN, August 6 -An Iraqi court has sentenced a French man and a German woman to life in prison for their membership in the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group, some seven months after Baghdad announced that the terror outfit lost all of its urban bastions in the war-ravaged Arab country.
TEHRAN, August 6 -Iraq's election commission has concluded the manual recount of votes from the country’s parliamentary elections held in May, wrapping up a process following accusations of electoral fraud.