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2020-12-15 11:25
By Mohammad Mazhari
The difference between Biden and Trump is a matter of style: professor
TEHRAN - A professor from Hamline University doubts that the Joe Biden administration would make strategic changes in U.S. foreign policy.
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2020-12-15 11:25
By Mohammad Mazhari
Russian expert says U.S. deserves no trust
TEHRAN - Noting that Israel doesn’t trust even its closest ally, the United States, a Russian analyst says Washington is not trustable at the international level.
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2020-12-15 10:23
Legacy
Biden Iran policy may prove an exact replica of that of Trump
TEHRAN – As Joe Biden's foreign policy team mull over their options on the Iran nuclear deal, experts and Iranian officials warn that any attempt to use Donald Trump’s sanctions as leverage or delay the lifting of these sanctions will only complicate the situation around the 2015 nuclear deal.
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2020-12-14 21:23
'European sensitivity over propagandist’s execution instance of interference'
Rouhani: JCPOA is not renegotiable
TEHRAN – In a press conference on Monday, President Hassan Rouhani said the 2015 nuclear deal, officially known as the JCPOA, “is not renegotiable”.
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2020-12-14 16:26
By Javad Heirannia
Ayatollah Khamenei saw “important fault line” within JCPOA: George Washington University professor
“It (JCPOA) was not a balanced deal”
TEHRAN – A professor of international business at the George Washington University says Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was right that he “was not enthusiastic” about the 2015 nuclear agreement because he noticed “its important fault line”.
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2020-12-13 22:22
Iran will not accept new nuclear deal: MP
TEHRAN – Jalil Rahimi Jahanabadai, a member of the Parliament’s National Security and Foreign Policy Committee, has ruled out any possibility of Iran agreeing to a new deal on its nuclear program.
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2020-12-13 17:39
By Mohammad Mazhari
Historian says U.S. not entitled to meddle in West Asia
TEHRAN – Kurk Dorsey, a professor of history at New Hampshire University, is of the opinion that the U.S. administration has made many mistakes and is not entitled to intervene in West Asia.
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2020-12-12 23:00
JCPOA Joint Commission to meet Wednesday
TEHRAN – The Joint Commission of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) plans to meet in Vienna on Wednesday, Iran and the European Union said.
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2020-12-12 21:53
Austrian FM calls on all sides to comply with JCPOA, voices readiness to facilitate talks
TEHRAN - Austrian Foreign Minister Alexander Schallenberg has called on all parties to a 2015 nuclear deal between Iran and world powers to return to their commitments under the deal, expressing readiness to facilitate any new round of talks with the deal parties.
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2020-12-12 21:51
By Mohammad Mazhari
Kansas professor says few claim U.S. actions in the region have been positive
There is question why assassination of Iranian scientist “happened at this current time,” Professor Wuthrich notes
TEHRAN – An American academic says “few people would claim that the United States actions in the region (West Asia) have all been positive or always reflected its ideals.”
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2020-12-12 18:27
Russia’s Lavrov rules out possibility of JCPOA revision
TEHRAN — Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has ruled out the possibility of any revision of the Iran nuclear deal, officially called the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).
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2020-12-12 12:03
By M.A. Saki
Security must be inclusive
TEHRAN - As President-elect Joe Biden has announced that he is seeking to revitalize the 2015 nuclear deal (JCPOA), Anwar Gargash, the UAE minister of state for foreign affairs, has said his country is seeking a “JCPOA++”.
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2020-12-11 17:46
Riyadh after disrupting U.S. return to JCPOA, says expert
TEHRAN — International affairs expert Sabah Zanganeh has said Saudi Arabia is seeking to disrupt the United States’ return to the 2015 nuclear agreement under the incoming administration of Joe Biden.
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2020-12-10 00:36
Rouhani says Trump hampering Iran’s efforts to import vaccine
TEHRAN - President Hassan Rouhani on Wednesday lashed out at his U.S. counterpart, Donald Trump, for hampering Iran’s purchase of medical equipment and vaccines required to fight the coronavirus pandemic, saying the “evil” team at the White House did not even spare the elderly and the disabled from the “cruel” measures.
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2020-12-10 00:02
By Mohammad Ali Saki
Academic predicts Biden would continue to support S. Arabia militarily
TEHRAN – An Assistant Professor from Coastal Carolina University (CCU) rules out any major change in U.S. military support for Saudi Arabia under Joe Biden's presidency as the kingdom has been a close U.S. ally for several decades.
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2020-12-09 23:54
It was impossible for Israel to assassinate Fakhrizadeh alone: advisor
“We aren’t going to have missile JCPOA,” Amir Abdollahian says
TEHRAN - Hossein Amir Abdollahian, a senior foreign advisor to the parliament speaker, says the assassination of Iranian nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh by the Zionist regime was impossible without cooperation by spy services of other countries.
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2020-12-09 23:37
Italian ambassador meets speaker Ghalibaf
TEHRAN - The Italian Ambassador to Tehran, Giuseppe Perrone, was received on Tuesday by Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, the Italian embassy said in a press release.
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2020-12-09 10:41
Iran stands up against transatlantic bullying
TEHRAN – As the European trio - France, Germany, and the UK – are pushing for expanding the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, Iranian experts and officials reiterate that Tehran will not only not negotiate over its defensive missile program and regional influence it will also not renegotiate the nuclear deal.
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2020-12-08 18:07
Europe failed to meet Iran’s JCPOA expectations, says senior MP
TEHRAN — A top Iranian legislator said on Tuesday that Europe has not met Iran’s expectations in salvaging the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), commonly known as the Iran nuclear agreement.
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2020-12-08 18:06
Biden advisor sees chance for revival of Iran deal
TEHRAN — Jake Sullivan, U.S. President-elect Joe Biden’s nominee for national security adviser, has voiced guarded optimism for restoring the Iran nuclear pact.
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2020-12-08 15:40
By Mohammad Mazhari
Iran cannot trust U.S. after Trump’s JCPOA exit: ex-Senate candidate
TEHRAN - Mark Dankof, a former U.S. Senate candidate, says Iran possibly cannot be expected to trust Washington once again after Donald Trump pulled the U.S. out of the JCPOA, the official name for the 2015 nuclear agreement.
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2020-12-08 14:29
By Mohammad Mazhari
Fakhrizadeh assassination deliberately intended to hinder return to JCPOA: historian
TEHRAN – The assassination of an Iranian nuclear scientist was first and foremost intended to prevent a return to the JCPOA (the 2015 nuclear deal) by the incoming Biden administration, says a professor of political science and history at Cornell University.
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2020-12-07 23:08
Tehran urges Europe to prove goodwill by fulfilling JCPOA commitments
TEHRAN – Foreign Ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh has called on European parties to the Iran nuclear deal to prove their goodwill by fulfilling their commitments under the 2015 deal, officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).
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2020-12-07 23:05
Europeans push for new deal while U.S. remains silent
The West’s true colors
TEHRAN – European countries signatory to the 2015 Iran nuclear deal have expressed concerns over Tehran’s nuclear program, but a former Iranian diplomat tells the Tehran Times that the these countries are not genuinely worried about Iran's nuclear activities. Instead, he said, they are worried about the Islamic Republic getting stronger over time.
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2020-12-06 22:03
Ulyanov slams Western calls to ‘improve’ JCPOA
TEHRAN - Mikhail Ulyanov, Russia's permanent representative to the Vienna-based international organizations, has responded to Western calls to improve a 2015 nuclear deal between Iran and world powers.
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2020-12-06 17:09
Deputy Parliament speaker says no one is opposed to negotiation
Parliamentary approval sent a message to JCPOA parties: top MP
TEHRAN — The first deputy speaker of the Iranian Parliament has said the passing of the strategic action plan for the lifting of sanctions showed that Iran’s precondition for observing its nuclear obligations is that the other parties to the nuclear deal must fulfill their commitments.
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2020-12-06 16:06
The odds are there to be…
Many international political activists remember July 14, 2015, when Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini officially announced that Iran and six other countries - Britain, China, France, Germany, Russia, and the United States - have reached a final nuclear agreement. That day, a joint statement was issued in Vienna in which the transcript started with a bold sentence: "Today, is an historic day".
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2020-12-06 15:10
By Mohammad Mazhari
Iran should become a crucial node in China's BRI project: geopolitical analyst
TEHRAN - Andrew Korybko, an American geopolitical analyst, tells the Tehran Times that whatever the incoming American administration decides regarding the 2015 nuclear deal (JCPOA), Iran should play a key partner in China's Belt & Road Initiative (BRI) project.
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2020-12-05 22:00
European demands will only complicate the situation surrounding the JCPOA
Europe’s unachievable goal
TEHRAN – While Iran keeps insisting on not renegotiating the 2015 nuclear deal, the Europeans not only call for reopening the deal, but also expanding it in a way that includes other thorny issues such as Iran’s missile program and its regional influence.
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2020-12-05 21:11
By Martin Love
The U.S. and allies have done little but inflame West Asia…
Heiko Maas, Germany’s foreign minister, must be crazy, literally. Or just a blind twit, like so many others in the “Western” establishment of lily-white bigots, racists and Christian imperialists.