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EU’s SPV insufficient to boost France exports to Iran: France
Sep 27, 2018 10:25As the remaining signatories to the Iran nuclear deal are preparing to implement their financial initiative within the coming months to save the 2015 nuclear accord following the US unilateral withdrawal, a political party in France casts doubt on the overall efficiency of the mechanism calling on Paris to set up a joint bank with Iran to bypass the US sanctions.
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Trump behind oil price rally: Oil Minister
Sep 26, 2018 10:05Iran’s Minister of Petroleum Bijan Zangeneh says President Donald Trump is behind the current oil price spike, dismissing the US president’s attack on OPEC in his controversial address to the UN on Tuesday.
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India’s PM faces resignation calls over ‘corruption’ in French jet deal
Sep 22, 2018 08:59India’s opposition parties have called for the resignation of Prime Minister Narendra Modi over his alleged role in a major military deal with France.
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French far-right leader refuses court-ordered psych test
Sep 21, 2018 09:13French far-right politician Marine Le Pen has refused to submit to a court-ordered psychiatric exam over tweeting images of cruel acts of violence by Daesh terrorist group, voicing outrage over the ruling.
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UK, France dispatch jets to intercept Russian bombers over North Sea
Sep 21, 2018 04:39Britain and France have separately scrambled fighter jets to intercept two Russian long-range bombers that they said were approaching UK airspace over the North Sea.
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Iran raps slow French police response to embassy attack in Paris
Sep 16, 2018 00:59Iran confirms that its Embassy building in Paris has come under terrorist attack, criticizing, however, the French police for arriving late on the scene.
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Terrorists attack Iran's embassy in Paris
Sep 15, 2018 10:45Iran’s Embassy in Paris has come under attack by alleged supporters of Iraq-based anti-Iran terrorists after the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) fired missiles at terrorist commanders in the Arab country's Kurdistan region.
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Macron admits systematic use of torture in Algeria war
Sep 13, 2018 12:09France has admitted that it instigated a "system" that led to torture during Algeria's independence war in the 1950s and 1960s as it comes to grips with its long-suppressed legacy of colonial crimes.
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Seven people wounded in knife attack in Paris, ‘no early sign of terrorism’
Sep 10, 2018 07:04Police in France say they have arrested a knife-wielding man who wounded seven people in an attack in central Paris.
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France joins space race, developing independent space capabilities
Sep 08, 2018 03:28France has announced measures to join a current space race among the world powers, amid the United States recent rhetoric on the militarization of the Earth’s outer space, which has raised concerns about shifting the battlefield into the space.