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DOHA, Qatar – Qatar can be a conduit for the Gulf states to engage in dialogue with Iran now that ties with the GCC have been reestablished, Qatar’s Foreign Minister, Sheikh Mohammed Al Thani, told Bloomberg TV on Tuesday. His comments come a day after Omar Saif Ghobash, UAE Deputy …

ISLAMABAD – The “Pakistan-China National Security Partnership” webinar was hosted by the Development Communications Network (Devcom-Pakistan) on Sunday. Chairman of the Standing Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs Senator Mushahid Hussain Sayed and Lieutenant-General Talat Masood were the keynote speakers. Senior Washington reporter Anwar Iqbal, Devcom-Pakistan executive director Munir Ahmed, Professor …

TEHRAN – Iranian Foreign Minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, on Sunday rejected a claim by France that Tehran was building its nuclear weapons, calling it “absurd nonsense”. French Foreign Minister, Jean-Yves Le Drian, in an interview with the Journal du Dimanche published on Saturday, said Iran was boosting its nuclear weapons …

BRUSSELS – The European Union (EU) on Monday called on Iran to abandon its efforts to enrich uranium by up to 20% and fulfill the obligations of the nuclear deal it signed in 2015. EU foreign policy chief, Josep Borrell, said that the bloc continued to support the Joint Comprehensive …

TEHRAN – Iran said on Wednesday that it did not plan to hold talks with Korea over the release of a Korean tanker it seized on Monday. The spokesman for Iran’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement that he had not reached an agreement on “any form of visit” by …

WASHINGTON – The United States on Tuesday blacklisted a Chinese company that manufactures parts for steel production, 12 Iranian steel and metal manufacturers and three overseas-based sales agents of a large Iranian mining and metals company, seeking to deprive Iran of revenue at the end of the US President Donald …

MOSCOW – Iranian Ambassador to Moscow, Kazem Jalali, said Iran and Russia are preparing for a personal meeting on cooperation in the production of coronavirus vaccines. “The phone conversations from April to October 2020 between the presidents of Iran and Russia underscored Iran’s interest in cooperating with Russia in the …

TEHRAN – The Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman, Maria Zakharova, said Thursday that The United States must return to the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) Without any preconditions or extra demand, Tass News reported. “We proceed from the understanding that the United States’ return to the fold of the Joint …

ANKARA – Developing-8 (D-8) countries, with a total population of over one billion, have great power to prevent the food insecurity and malnutrition that threaten millions of people around the world, a senior Turkish official said on Wednesday. “A third of the food produced in the world is lost or …

TEHRAN – Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman, Saeed Khatibzadeh, said the virtual meeting of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) Joint Commission is scheduled for today (Wednesday) in the presence of delegations from Iran and the P4 + 1 group. “This meeting is one of the regular meetings of the …