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VIENNA, Austria – Negotiators from Iran and six world powers will adjourn talks on resuming their 2015 nuclear deal on Sunday and return to their respective capitals for consultations, as the remaining differences cannot be easily bridged, the chief of Iranian delegation, Abbas Araqchi, said. “We are now closer than …

ISLAMABAD – The Pakistani Prime Minister’s Trade and Investment Advisor, Abdul Razaq dawood, said that three border markets are now established on the border with Iran while the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has announced the second official border with Iran as International Road Transport (TIR). Razak said in a …

VIENNA – A fourth round of talks between participants in the nuclear deal is set to resume Friday in Vienna, with Washington saying a “quick” return to the deal is possible. Washington is ready to “do whatever it can” to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons if the Vienna talks …

TEHRAN – Iranian Foreign Minister’s spokesperson, Saeed Khatibzadeh, on Monday dismissed media reports of a suspected prisoner swap deal between Tehran and Washington. “Reports on prisoner exchanges with the United States do not correspond to reality … The issue of prisoners has been and remains a humanitarian problem and they …

TEHRAN – Iranian Foreign Minister, Muhammad Javad Zarif, spoke with General Sultan bin Mohammed al Nu’amani, Minister of the Royal Office of the Sultanate of Oman. At Thursday’s meeting, Iran’s foreign minister touched on some areas where the two countries need to work harder from the views of senior officials …

ISLAMABAD – Pakistani foreign ministry has announced that Tehran and Islamabad will sign a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on expanding trade and opening new cross-border shopping centers. The announcement comes at a time when Pakistan’s Foreign Minister, Shah Mahmood Qureshi, is visiting Tehran. He is due to meet with the …

TEHRAN – Iranian President, Hassan Rouhani, during a telephone conversation with Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, stressed that cooperation between Tehran and Ankara can lead to the resolution of various problems and crises in the region. “Cooperation between Iran and Turkey, as two important and influential countries in the region, …

TEHRAN – Iranian Foreign Minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, has declared restoring balance and safeguarding the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) as the goal of compensatory measures taken by Iran. Speaking in a telephone conversation with his Finnish Foreign Minister, Pekka Haavisto, on Thursday, Zarif referred to the violation of …

WASHINGTON – The US President, Joe Biden, has said he will not lift economic sanctions against Iran unless Tehran first reduces its uranium enrichment to the level agreed in the 2015 international treaty to limit the development of its nuclear weapons. Biden has said he wants the United States to …

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 …