U.S. impeding sale of Iran’s heavy water

TEHRAN - Behrooz Kamalvandi, spokesman for the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, has said that the U.S. is impeding purchase of Iran’s heavy water, however, there are certain customers who do not pay attention to the U.S.

Positive steps taken to preserve nuclear deal: Rouhani

TEHRAN – Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said on Saturday that positive steps have been taken to preserve the 2015 nuclear deal, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, after the U.S. withdrawal.

Zarif: Iran to stay in nuclear deal if Europe gives ‘necessary guarantees’

TEHRAN – Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said on Saturday that Iran will stay in the 2015 nuclear deal, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, if Europeans give the “necessary guarantees” to protect Iran’s economic interests.

By Hanif Ghaffari

Europe and U.S. in a trade standoff

U.S. President Donald Trump continues to pursue his protectionist policies in international trade system. This has led to raising concerns and serious discontent among the United States' European partners.

By Payman Yazdani

Trump’s strategy toward Iran is at the expense of U.S. credibility: Costello

TEHRAN - Ryan Costello NIAC assistant policy director is of the view that Trump’s apparent strategy is to punish Iran at the expense of nonproliferation, security in the Middle East, relations with European allies, the efficacy of future sanctions and the diplomatic credibility of the U.S.

Post: Trump’s nuclear deal exit has antagonized the world

TEHRAN – Trump’s dealings with North Korea and Iran have antagonized: Russia, China, Germany, France, Japan, Britain, Austria, Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden, Spain, Slovakia, Portugal, Finland, Ireland, South Korea and so forth, the Washington Post said on Friday.

Iran insists to resume enrichment if nuclear deal not saved

TEHRAN – A top official at the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) has reiterated Tehran’s position that Iran will resume nuclear enrichment activities with a greater speed if the remaining parties fail to save the 2015 nuclear agreement.

‘Iran would have destroyed U.S. warship in Persian Gulf in 1988 if it had had today’s power’

TEHRAN - Iran’s Defense Minister Amir Hatami said on Saturday that Iran would have destroyed the U.S. warship USS Vincennes in the Persian Gulf waters in 1988 if it had had the current military power.

By staff & agencies

Gaza #Returnprotests continue with 120 martyrs

The Palestinian Health Ministry in a report on Friday said 120 people have been killed and hundreds have been injured since March 30

By Martin Love

U.S. may be hoisting itself on its own petard

NORTH CAROLINA - The Chinese suggestion that “May you live in interesting times” is now fulfilled, it appears. Who made current times most interesting, in some respects like never before since World War II, is a lame minded Donald Trump this Spring, plunging the thoughts of many across the world into chaos and trepidation.

By Hanif Ghaffari

The story of Elysees Palace and nuclear deal with Iran

TEHRAN - The paradoxical Macron game against a nuclear deal with Iran has reduced the credibility of Paris and its role in the international system.

By Mohammad Ghaderi

Pompeo's special mission and shadow of U.S. secret diplomacy over Europe

TEHRAN - Intense negotiations between the U.S. and Europe over the Iran nuclear deal are ongoing.

Putin warns of ‘lamentable consequences’ if nuclear agreement falls apart

German, Russian, French and Chinese leaders back nuclear deal

Leaders of Russia, France, Germany as well as the Chinese premier have reiterated their support for the 2015 nuclear deal as Donald Trump has exited the U.S. from the internationally backed agreement.

Ayatollah Khamenei sets seven conditions for Europe to save nuclear deal

TEHRAN - Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Ali Khamenei set out seven conditions for European powers if they want Iran to stay in the nuclear deal after the U.S. exit.

Iran wants oil and bank pledges by June after U.S. nuclear deal exit

Europe needs to come up with a package of economic guarantees by June to prevent the crisis triggered by Donald Trump’s nuclear deal withdrawal from escalating further, according to a top Iranian official.

By Javad Heirannia

Europeans want to preserve JCPOA: Tabatabai

Ariane Tabatabai, director of curriculum and an assistant teaching professor at the Georgetown University Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service says “the most important driver behind the Trump administration's decision to withdraw from the JCPOA is domestic politics.”

By Javad Heirannia

The rest of JCPOA signatories want to keep it alive: Hunter

TEHRAN - Shireen Tahmaasb Hunter, a professor of political science at Georgetown University, tells to Tehran Times that “The rest of the signatories to the JCPOA want to keep it alive.”

By Hanif Ghaffari

Trump’s fearing from future

As we get closer to November, Donald Trump and his entourage are getting more afraid. The Congressional elections this year can be a prelude to the fall of Trump's power and his becoming a one term president in the United States.

General: U.S. not the only superpower in multipolar world

TEHRAN – The United States is not the only superpower in the world anymore as a multipolar world is on the rise and U.S. power is fading, says Yahya Rahim Safavi, a top military adviser to the Leader.

By Mohammad Ghaderi

Iran's 12 preconditions for negotiating with U.S.

TEHRAN - Reaffirming the withdrawal of Trump's government from the nuclear deal with Iran, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo recently put forward conditions for concluding a "new agreement" with Iran at the Heritage Foundation.

By Javad Heirannia

There are various means for EU to undermine U.S. sanctions: Nephew

TEHRAN – Richard Nephew, who served as the lead sanctions expert for the U.S. team negotiating with Iran, is of the opinion that “There are various means for the EU to undermine U.S. sanctions and thereby provide assurance to business, but they require a confrontation with Iran.”

Iran to U.S.: History will prove everything

TEHRAN - Iranian government spokesman Mohammad Baqer Nobakht said on Tuesday that history has shown victory of the Iranian people for several times and will show it again.

Takht-Ravanchi describes Pompeo’s language as ‘obscene’ and ‘rude’

Iran: Pompeo presented ‘neither strategy’, ‘nor plan’

TEHRAN - Majid Takht-Ravanchi, deputy director of the presidential chief of staff for political affairs, has said that the U.S. government is under the influence of the Zionists and the terrorist groups.

Iran ‘united’ in defying new U.S. policy: envoy

TEHRAN – Iranian Ambassador to London Hamid Baeidinejad has denounced the recent anti-Iran remarks by U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, saying Iran is “united” in countering the new policy adopted by the Trump administration.

By Marzieh Salehi

Trump's deceiving Macron once again

TEHRAN - While the Islamic Republic of Iran and the European troika held talks on the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) and how to provide solid assurances by the European Union to maintain the nuclear deal, French President Emanuel Macron once again raised the issue of "changing the JCPOA".

By Javad Heirannia

European countries can save JCPOA: professor

TEHRAN - Farhang Jahanpour, an adjunct professor in the Department of Continuing Education at the University of Oxford and a Middle East expert, says that “President Trump’s withdrawal from the JCPOA was opposed virtually by the entire world, with the exception of Israel, Saudi Arabia and the UAE.”

By Javad Heirannia

U.S. secondary sanctions is principal red line for Iran: Askari

TEHRAN – Professor Hossein Askari, an expert on Saudi Arabia who also teaches international business at the George Washington University, strongly believes that most European financial institution and corporation “would cut business ties with Iran.”

Rouhani to Pompeo: 'Who are you who want to decide for Iran and the world'

TEHRAN – President Hassan Rouhani reacted strongly to the hostile remarks against Iran by new U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, saying, “Who are you who want to decide for Iran and the world”.

‘Europeans should encourage companies to do business in Iran’

TEHRAN - Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi has said European countries are expected to create an atmosphere in which their private sector be encouraged to do business in Iran.