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Vienna talks acceptable only when Iran’s rights secured, results tangible: FM
Aug 27, 2021 11:46Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian said the Vienna talks aimed at reviving the 2015 nuclear deal with world powers will be acceptable only when there come tangible results from high-level negotiations and the interests of the Islamic Republic are secured.
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EU says looks forward to continuing Vienna talks on JCPOA revival with Iran’s new administration
Aug 27, 2021 00:12The European Union looks forward to continuing negotiations in Austria’s capital, Vienna, on bringing the Iran nuclear agreement back on track, says the spokesman for EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell.
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Russia deplores state of relations with EU
Aug 26, 2021 08:47The Russian foreign minister says the current state of the relations between Russia and the European Union (EU) is “deplorable,” regretting the fact that the bloc’s policy is aimed at restraining Moscow.
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Russia: Iran’s steps away from JCPOA due to halt in Vienna talks, US sanctions
Aug 25, 2021 03:59Russia says Iran’s decision to take more steps away from the 2015 nuclear deal by producing uranium metal and increasing uranium-enrichment capacities stem from a lack of progress in negotiations on a revival of the agreement and the US’s refusal to remove its unilateral sanctions against the Islamic Republic, calling for a swift resumption of the talks.
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Lavrov regrets EU concern about Russia, China taking control of Afghanistan situation
Aug 25, 2021 03:41Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has slammed the European Union (EU) foreign policy chief's recent remarks about Afghanistan, saying it is regrettable that the bloc is more concerned about Moscow and Beijing supposedly taking control of the situation in the conflict-ridden country rather than the future of the nation itself.
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Terrorism, extremism end results of Europe's policies, Assad tells EU lawmakers
Aug 22, 2021 07:35Syrian President Bashar al-Assad says Europe's wrong policies in West Asia have resulted in numerous crises, particularly the growth of terrorism and fundamentalism besides the influx of refugees and asylum seekers.
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Erdogan says Turkey not ‘Europe's migrant storage unit’ as EU guards against Afghan refugees
Aug 20, 2021 10:40Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan has called on European governments to take responsibility for refugees coming from Afghanistan, insisting that his country has no intention of becoming "Europe's migrant storage unit" after the Taliban’s takeover triggered a new wave of refugee outflow.
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EU’s Borrell says Taliban takeover of Afghanistan biggest event since Crimea
Aug 20, 2021 01:24The EU's foreign policy chief says the collapse of the Western-backed administration and a subsequent takeover of Afghanistan by the Taliban has been the most important geopolitical event since Russia "annexed" Crimea in 2014.
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Attempts to undermine Russia’s Nord Stream 2 project doomed to failure: Lavrov
Aug 18, 2021 01:41Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov says all future attempts by the US-led Western countries to undermine the Nord Stream 2 project, a sprawling undersea pipeline that will carry Russian gas directly into Germany, are doomed to failure.
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Germany: Merkel calls for a ‘controlled’ Afghan refugee response from EU
Aug 18, 2021 01:40German Chancellor Angela Merkel has called for coordinated European Union (EU) action to take in the most vulnerable people from Afghanistan amid the takeover of the country by the Taliban militant group.