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Zarif defends Iran’s voting rights as Guterres set to get reelected as UN chief
Jun 09, 2021 09:55Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif wrote a letter to UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres earlier this month, criticizing the United Nations’ decision to deprive Iran of its voting rights.
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Russia: JCPOA restoration benefits international community
Jun 09, 2021 03:42Russia’s representative to the international organizations in Vienna says the restoration of the 2015 nuclear deal would benefit the international community by facilitating trade with Tehran and boosting security in West Asia.
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Iran warns IAEA’s positions could endanger future interaction
Jun 08, 2021 01:18Iran’s ambassador to the international organizations in Vienna warns that the UN nuclear watchdog’s recent unconstructive positions towards the Islamic Republic could jeopardize the future of the country’s interaction with the body.
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Unclear yet if Biden, Blinken ready to change course on Iran: Zarif
Jun 08, 2021 01:02Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says it still remains to be seen if US President Joe Biden and Secretary of State Antony Blinken are prepared to depart from their predecessors’ attitude towards Iran.
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IAEA chief says it’s getting harder to extend inspections agreement with Iran amid JCPOA talks
Jun 07, 2021 12:26The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) says it is getting increasingly harder to further extend a deal that the Agency originally clinched with Iran in February to monitor the country’s peaceful nuclear activities, which expires on June 24 after its first extension.
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Former UK ambassador: Tearing up Iran deal harmed US reputation as reliable ally
Jun 07, 2021 00:26A former British ambassador to the US says the Joe Biden administration is aware that tearing up the 2015 Iran nuclear deal as well as other unilateral measures pursued by former US President Donald Trump have harmed America’s reputation as a reliable ally.
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Russian envoy: Interference in JCPOA revival talks inadmissible
Jun 06, 2021 11:23The Russian ambassador to international organizations in Vienna says all the parties involved in the negotiations for the revival of Iran’s landmark nuclear deal, officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), understand that any external interference in the talks is "inadmissible."
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Iran's Zarif: US must stop trying to use illegal economic war as negotiating ‘leverage’
Jun 05, 2021 12:17Iran’s foreign minister says he reminded his British counterpart during a phone conversation that the United States must stop trying to use its illegal economic war against Iran as “leverage” in the ongoing talks in the Austrian capital with the objective of reanimating the 2015 Iran nuclear agreement.
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Mehr-Alizadeh: JCPOA ‘great diplomatic achievement,’ should be preserved
Jun 05, 2021 01:33Presidential candidate Mohsen Mehr-Alizadeh has praised the 2015 multilateral nuclear deal — which has been in trouble since the US’s unilateral exit over three years ago — as a “great achievement of diplomacy” that should be protected.
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US sanctions exemplify war crimes, crimes against humanity: Takht Ravanchi
Jun 04, 2021 05:19Iran’s permanent ambassador to the United Nations says the United States’ illegal and unilateral sanctions targeting the country are cases in point for “war crimes and crimes against humanity.”