Tag

Obama administration officials say they continued to aggressively enforce sanctions against Iran throughout the negotiations, are still doing so, and will strictly enforce the remaining sanctions after the deal is implemented.

The announcement raised concerns of new tensions between the USA and Russian Federation over developments in Syria.

The meeting between Modi and Merkel comes days after they met in New York on September 26 at a high-powered summit of India, Brazil, Germany and Japan (G-4 group), which the Indian prime minister hosted, as all the four countries are bidding for a permanent seat in the United...

The value of political negotiations over Syria is questionable and airstrikes against militants are useless if they are not coordinated with the Syrian government, Foreign Minister Walid al-Moualem said on Friday.

Addressing the United Nations General Assembly on Thursday evening, Foreign Minister Abdel Ahmed Al-Jubeir also said that the question of Palestine had always been on the agenda of the 193-mmber body, but the Palestinians continued to suffer.

He spoke of only two possible outcomes for a settlement in Syria, saying a transitional council reached through a political process would be the “preferred option”.

Rouhani said that Iran would continue “peace-seeking efforts in the region” after having signed a deal on its nuclear program.

The Kremlin announced Wednesday that President Vladimir Putin has sent a request to Russia’s upper chamber of parliament asking lawmakers to authorize using the Russian army overseas. Military conversation between Russian Federation and the U.S. was cut off following the...

Its repeated vetoes, mainly on intervention in Syria or calling for investigations into alleged atrocities committed by President Bashar al-Assad’s forces, have led to criticism that the Kremlin is undermining the council.

“We must not forget that the roots of today’s wars, destruction, and terror can be found in the occupation, invasion and military intervention of yesterday”, Rouhani said in a speech to the United Nations General Assembly on Monday.

Problems will arise once Iran gets the sanctions relief, he predicted, and it will start to dig in its heels. Those terms would not be acceptable to the United States for the same reasons they are not acceptable to any nation with self-pride and respect for its own history,...

So I want to sanction this IRGC individual who has been in Syria helping the Assad regime gas his own people.

After visiting Iran over the weekend, Yukiya Amano, the director general of the global Atomic Energy Agency, told reporters the agency had made “significant progress” in its five-month probe, his strongest signal yet that Iran is cooperating.

IAEA director-general Yukiya Amano said Iran had handed over environmental samples from the Parchin military site, which he was able to visit on Sunday. But IAEA chief Yukiya Amano told reporters that Iranians carried out that part of the probe at Parchin, where the agency...

The new, diplomatic solution will, for the first time, have nuclear inspectors on the ground in Iran.