TEHRAN, May 05 - The United States is sending an aircraft carrier strike group and a bomber task force to the Middle East in a "clear and unmistakable" message to Iran, declared John Bolton, the hawkish US national security advisor.
TEHRAN, May 05 - Russia wants to strengthen cooperation with Iran, including in the nuclear sphere, despite the threat of US extraterritorial sanction s, according to Russia's Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov.
TEHRAN, May 04 - Iranian Defense Minister Brigadier General Amir Hatami says the US re-imposition of sanction s on Iran's oil sale and its plot to create economic woes for the Iranian nation will fail just like many other same efforts that were defeated in the past.
TEHRAN, May 04 - The Trump administration renewed five of seven sanction s waivers that allow Russia and European nations to conduct civilian nuclear cooperation with Iran but revoked the other two as part of its pressure campaign against Tehran, the US State Department said.
TEHRAN, May 01 - Asian buyers lifted 1.57 million barrels per day (bpd) of crude from Iran in March, the highest in eight months, data from government and trade sources show.
TEHRAN, May 01 - French prosecutors urged an appeals court to approve the extradition of an Iranian engineer to the United States after his arrest for violating American sanction s against Tehran.
TEHRAN, Apr 29 - IRGC Quds Force Commander Major General Qassem Soleimani has said Iranians will never submit to pressure and will not sit down for negotiations under threats.
TEHRAN, Apr 28 - A high-ranking Hezbollah official says the United States has slapped economic sanction s against the Lebanese resistance movement due to its bitter defeats from the group, stressing that Hezbollah will finally emerge victorious over the punitive measures.
TEHRAN, Apr 27 - The Iranian Foreign Minister has stressed that members of the US administration, as well as other countries in the Middle East, are dragging the United States into a conflict with Iran during an interview with Fox News Sunday’s Chris Wallace set to air on Sunday.
TEHRAN, Apr 24 - Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei says the US administration’s hostile attempts to block Iran’s oil sales will lead nowhere, and that the country will export “as much crude as it needs and wishes” in defiance of American sanction s.
TEHRAN, Apr 24 - American middle class consumers are enjoying the strongest wage growth in a decade, but higher gasoline prices are eating a good chunk of that increase for many, and it looks like pump prices are headed higher.
TEHRAN, Apr 24 - Russian Foreign Ministry called US action in heightening Iran's oil sanction s "aggressive, reckless and disturbing" policy to force the world bend to its will.
TEHRAN, Apr 10 - French President Emmanuel Macron says Paris and its European partners are pressing the Trump administration to moderate the sanction s it imposed against Tehran after withdrawing the US from the Iran nuclear deal.
TEHRAN, Apr 03 - In a phone conversation with Iran’s Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Es'hagh Al Habib, Viotti expressed deep regret over the damages and casualties caused by the massive flooding across Iran, saying that the international organization is ready to contribute to relief operations to Iran’s nation-wide floods.
TEHRAN, Mar 27 - The US government has imposed new sanction s on an Iranian bank and its subsidiaries, accusing them of using front companies in three countries which the lender dismissed as a “sheer lie” on Wednesday.
TEHRAN, Mar 23 - US President Donald Trump has said he is ordering the reversal of recently announced North Korea-related sanction s imposed by the Treasury Department.
TEHRAN, Mar 22 - The United States has targeted two Chinese shipping companies over the alleged evasion of sanction s imposed on North Korea, the first such steps since US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un's summit collapsed last month.
TEHRAN, Mar 13 - The United States says it is planning to impose “very significant additional sanction s” against financial institutions in Venezuela in the coming days, a move regarded as part of efforts to undermine the democratically-elected government in Caracas.