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Iran dismisses US allegation, says Trump's UN speech 'hackneyed, meant for domestic consumption'
Sep 23, 2020 12:30Iran's permanent ambassador to the United Nations rejects as "hackneyed" US President Donald Trump's allegations made against Tehran during his speech at the UN General Assembly, saying the comments were meant "for domestic consumption".
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US repeated Saddam miscalculations by waging economic war on Iran: Rouhani
Sep 23, 2020 11:39Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani says the United States unleashed an economic war on Iran after leaving the 2015 nuclear deal based on the same “miscalculations” made by former Iraqi dictator Saddam in 1980, when he led Iraq into an invasion of Iran.
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World must stop US from destroying central tenets of UN: Salehi
Sep 22, 2020 04:47Addressing the International Atomic Energy Agency’s General Conference, Iran’s nuclear chief calls on the international community to resist US attempts to destroy the main tenet of the United Nations.
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Iran will not renegotiate what it has already negotiated: FM Zarif
Sep 21, 2020 15:24Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has expressed the Islamic Republic's readiness to hold talks on new issues, stressing, however, that the country will never renegotiate an issue it has already concluded through negotiations.
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Reining in US' destructive behavior necessary to protect multilateralism: Salehi
Sep 21, 2020 13:49The head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) says multilateralism, as the raison d'être of the United Nations system, has come under serious question, emphasizing that there is no way but to get united and put an end to the destructive behavior of the current United States administration for the interests of the international community.
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Russia, China envoys lash out at US over Iran snapback claim
Sep 21, 2020 03:53Senior Russian and Chinese diplomats have lashed out at the United States over Washington’s unrealistic claim that its abortive campaign to bring back the United Nations’ sanctions against Iran has actually resulted in restoring the bans.
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EU’s Borrell: US not a JCPOA participant, can’t reinstate UN sanctions
Sep 21, 2020 03:33The EU's Foreign Policy Chief, Josep Borrell, who is the coordinator of the 2015 nuclear deal between Tehran and world powers, known as the JCPOA, one more time stressed that the US is not a JCPOA participant state and cannot initiate the process of reinstating the UN sanctions.
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No change in US hostility to Iran no Matter who is in White House: Speaker
Sep 21, 2020 03:05It makes no difference to Iran who the next US president will be, as Washington’s hostility towards the Iranian nation is not going to change at all, Speaker of Iran’s Parliament (Majlis) Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf said.
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Iran will never succumb to US bullying, illegitimate demands: President Rouhani
Sep 20, 2020 09:05President Hassan Rouhani said the Islamic Republic will never give in to US bullying after the United States claimed it has restored all UN sanctions against Tehran through the so-called snapback mechanism of a landmark nuclear deal clinched in 2015, officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).
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US snapback push against Iran 'theatrical performance': Russia
Sep 20, 2020 06:21Russia has censured a unilateral declaration by the United States on the restoration of UN sanctions against Iran as a “theatrical performance” that aims to mislead the international community.