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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 …

LONDON – France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Belgium, Austria, Ireland and Bulgaria have all announced restrictions on travel to the United Kingdom (UK) as the new Covid-19 strain spreads much faster. A growing list of European Union countries have decided to ban flights from the UK and others are considering …

TEHRAN – The head of the office of the Iranian president, Mahmoud Vaezi, said that Germany is one of the traditional trade and economic partners of the Islamic Republic of Iran and Tehran welcomes the expansion of cooperation. Vaezi met German Ambassador to Iran, Hans Odo Motzel, in Tehran on …

PARIS – France on Wednesday became the last European country to toughen anti-coronavirus measures, imposing a curfew on Paris and eight other cities from Saturday. At the same time, Germany and Ireland also tightened restrictions. “We must act. We must stop the spread of the virus,” President Emmanuel Macron said …

TEHRAN – Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammed Javad Zarif advises US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to read UNSCR 2231. In a tweet on Thursday, Zarif wrote: “Still wrong, @SecPompeo. Nothing new is happening on 09/20. Just Res.2231.” “Bolton – who convinced the boss to order you to ‘STOP US involvement’ …

KREMLIN – Russia’s main pro-Kremlin party, United Russia, on Sunday won a clear victory in local polls just weeks after the suspected poisoning of opposition leader Alexei Navalny. Navalny is a fierce critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin. On August 20, he fell ill during a flight from Siberia to …

VIENNA – Signatories to the tentative Iran nuclear deal meet in Vienna on Tuesday as the United States urges international sanctions against Iran to be reimposed and an arms embargo extended. Britain, France, Germany, China and Russia are struggling to save the historic 2015 deal with Iran, which has been …

LONDON – France, Germany and the United Kingdom on Thursday issued a joint statement saying they would not support the United States in its attempt to reimpose sanctions on Iran. The United States on Thursday sent a letter to the United Nations Security Council calling for the launch of the …

WASHINGTON – The US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has warned Russia and China not to ignore the reimposition of all United Nations sanctions on Iran, which President Donald Trump ordered him to trigger Thursday in the United Nations Security Council in New York. Pompeo will meet with Indonesian United …