TEHRAN, December 15 - European Union (EU) leaders have agreed to extend economic sanctions against Russia for another six months over what they say is Moscow’s interference in Ukraine, which is not an EU member.
TEHRAN, November 21 - Czech President Milos Zeman on Tuesday called for an end to EU sanctions against Russia imposed over the Ukraine crisis, as well as the retaliatory measures introduced by Moscow.
TEHRAN, November 18 - Five American senators in a letter to US Secretary of State Rex W. Tillerson urged US to accelerate relief donations process to quake-stricken people in western Iran.
TEHRAN, November 11 -Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said on Friday that he had agreed with Russian President Vladimir Putin to implement United Nations sanctions on North Korea strictly.
TEHRAN, November 4 -Canada's move to impose sanctions on 30 Russian officials was "senseless and reprehensible" and has led to retaliatory measures, Russian officials said.
TEHRAN, November 4 - Italian government has established a new financial organization with state guarantees to support the businesses that plan to invest in Iran.
TEHRAN, October 26 -The US House of Representatives have backed new sanctions on Lebanon's Hezbollah militia, as the group tries to recover from its costly involvement in Syria.
TEHRAN, October 23 -Donald Trump said the EU would have supported US sanctions on Iran if he was insistent. But, according to the US president, he allowed Germany and France to keep making money with Tehran as America was capable of putting pressure on Iranians on its own.
TEHRAN, October 22 - A senior professor of anthropology at the University of Minnesota warned against the consequences of Washington’s additional sanctions against Tehran and its withdrawal from the 2015 nuclear deal, saying the US would become “economically isolated” in that case.
TEHRAN, October 17 - Russia and the European Union (EU) have slapped tougher restrictions on North Korea as part of the international efforts to stop Pyongyang’s nuclear weapons program.
TEHRAN, October 13 - The Foreign Affairs Committee of the US House of Representatives in Congress introduced new legislation that would expand sanctions against Iran over its ballistic missile program.
TEHRAN, October 8 - Russian officials have warned that in a retaliatory move they would impose restrictions on the activity of US media in the country.
TEHRAN, October 7 - An Iranian parliament member warned that if US president decertify the nuclear deal and the US Congress reimposes anti-Iran sanctions already lifted under the deal, the agreement will be deemed null and void and Iran will swiftly return to pre-nuclear deal conditions.
TEHRAN, October 6 - Iranian UN Ambassador Gholam-Ali Khoshrou said imposing ‘unfair’ sanctions runs counter to the international law and is a discriminatory move and against the multilateral trade system.
TEHRAN, September 22 - The US government’s sanctions against Iran are “illegitimate” and undermine the 2015 nuclear deal between Tehran and the six world powers, says Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.
TEHRAN, September 18 - Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi condemned the recent move by US Department of Treasury which imposed sanctions against several Iranian citizens, calling the move ‘politically-motivated, unwise and unfounded.’
TEHRAN, September 15 - The United States has announced economic sanctions on 11 individuals and companies in Iran accused of supporting Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) or engaging in cyber attacks on US banks, but has decided to continue for now to exempt Iran from nuclear-related sanctions .