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China says US push for Iran sanctions ‘self-serving political manipulation’
Aug 21, 2020 11:56China says the United States’ call for the re-imposition of the United Nations sanctions on Iran is ‘nothing but a self-serving political manipulation,’ stressing once again that Washington has no right to make such a demand after its unilateral withdrawal from the nuclear deal of 2015.
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US in no position to snap back Security Council sanctions: Iran
Aug 21, 2020 09:32Iran has dismissed propagation by certain foreign media outlets that a request by Washington would reinstate the United Nations Security Council’s sanctions against Tehran.
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Trump admin. to get isolated, disgraced once again: Zarif
Aug 21, 2020 07:37Iran’s foreign minister says the US administration’s attempt to snap back the UN Security Council’s sanctions against Tehran will result in nothing but another disgrace for US President Donald Trump.
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US will be humiliated again if it tries to snap back Iran sanctions: Takht Ravanchi
Aug 20, 2020 11:11Iran’s permanent ambassador to the United Nations says if the United States tries to use the Iran nuclear deal’s snapback mechanism to restore sanctions against the country, it will be humiliated again as the international community has already rejected Washington’s bid.
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Iran’s FM pens important letter to UN about US push for 'snapback' sanctions
Aug 20, 2020 03:10Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has written to the UN Security Council about Washington’s new push to invoke the so-called snapback provision in the 2015 nuclear deal and re-impose all UN sanctions against Tehran.
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US insincerity to ruin chances for Russian summit on Iran: Spokesman
Aug 20, 2020 02:19The spokesperson for the Iranian government said a seven-way online summit of the UN Security Council permanent members, Germany and Iran, proposed by the president of Russia, is unlikely to produce results as the US government lacks any sincere intention.
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Russia: US snapback push against Iran mockery of common sense
Aug 20, 2020 01:52Russia has criticized the “poorly calculated” US push to trigger the so-called snapback provision in the 2015 nuclear deal aimed at re-imposing all UN sanctions against Iran, saying the new adventurism will draw negative international reaction since it makes a “mockery” of common sense.
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Pompeo: US use of snapback against Iran 'fully valid'
Aug 20, 2020 01:43US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is desperately trying to make the case for the use of snapback against Iran from an internationally backed deal that his boss, President Donald Trump, quit in 2018.
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Iran’s $4 trillion mining sector holds key to demolishing US sanctions
Aug 19, 2020 07:05Iran is an energy superpower, holding the world’s largest reserves of oil and gas combined. Oil has been the primary source of foreign currency for decades which, on the flip side, has relegated other industries to the fringes.
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US cannot cross a bridge it burned: Rouhani says of push for 'snapback' sanctions
Aug 19, 2020 06:20President Hassan Rouhani said the US will once again fail in its new push to invoke the so-called snapback provision in the 2015 nuclear deal and re-impose all UN sanctions against Tehran.