TEHRAN, November 16 - A senior Iranian diplomat says sanctions imposed by the United States on Tehran primarily violate Europe’s sovereignty, security and credibility rather than target Iran's economy.
TEHRAN, October 14 -Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman says an Iranian diplomat , who was arrested in Germany on the false charges of being linked to a bomb attack plot in the French capital, Paris, enjoys full diplomat ic immunity.
TEHRAN, October 11 - Iran has summoned the German ambassador to protest Berlin’s extradition of an Iranian diplomat to Brussels over his alleged link to a planned July attack against the terrorist Mujahedin Khalq Organization (MKO) in France.
TEHRAN, September 30 - The Iranian deputy foreign minister for legal and international affairs said the Tel Aviv regime is breaching international agreements by continuing its heinous crimes against the defenseless people of Palestine.
TEHRAN, September 26 - China and the United States can compete but should not view each other with a Cold War mentality and should avoid falling into a zero-sum game trap, the Chinese government’s top diplomat said, amid deteriorating ties between the superpowers.
TEHRAN, September 25 - A suspect is in custody after an American diplomat was found dead at home while serving in Madagascar, the U.S. State Department said on Monday.
TEHRAN, August 30 -Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Muallem says the country’s government troops will “go all the way” in the militant-held northwestern province of Idlib, stressing that Damascus’s main targets are members of the Jabhat Fateh al-Sham Takfiri terrorist group, formerly known as al-Nusra Front.
TEHRAN, July 09 - Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif offered condolences over the demise of Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran, a top Vatican diplomat and expert in interfaith relations who died recently at the age of 75.
TEHRAN, July 02 - Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says the claims about an Iranian diplomat arrested over allegations of plotting a bomb attack on a meeting of the notorious anti-Iran terrorist group, the Mujahedin Khalq Organization (MKO), in France constitute a "sinister false flag ploy."
TEHRAN, May 25 -Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov says the Netherlands has provided "no facts" to support its allegation that Moscow was responsible for the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 in 2014.
TEHRAN, May 10 - A Nigerian diplomat was found dead in his home in the Sudanese capital Khartoum on Thursday, two security sources said, in an apparent murder that police said did not appear to be politically motivated.
TEHRAN, March 14 - A deputy Iranian foreign minister criticized the British Police for improper handling of a March 9 attack on Iran’s embassy building in London, saying Tehran would keep pursuing the case.
TEHRAN, March 11 -US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has fallen ill during his current tour of several African states and cancelled all his planned events in the continent for the day, says a senior deputy.
TEHRAN, December 27 - Authorities in Brazil said they are stripping Venezuela's top diplomat of his credentials and kicking him out in a dispute between the neighboring South American countries.
TEHRAN, December 26 - Canada has decided to revoke the credentials of Venezuela’s ambassador and chargé d’affaires in the country, reciprocating a similar move earlier by Caracas.
TEHRAN, December 18 - A Lebanese Uber driver with a criminal record has confessed to the killing of a British woman who worked at the British Embassy in Beirut, a Lebanese security source said on Monday.
TEHRAN, December 18 - A diplomat at Saudi Arabia's embassy in the United States has bitterly recounted how leading US daily The New York Times rejected an offer by the Saudi ambassador to Washington to publish an opinion piece in the paper but accepted an op-ed by Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif shortly afterwards.
TEHRAN, November 29 - Israeli officials have prevented Swiss diplomat s from visiting the besieged Gaza Strip, a day after Switzerland's envoy to the Palestinian Authority held meetings with senior members of the Palestinian resistance movement, Hamas.
TEHRAN, November 15 - A senior Chinese diplomat will visit North Korea from Friday as a special envoy of Chinese President Xi Jinping, the government announced on Wednesday, amid continued tensions over Pyongyang’s nuclear and missile programs.