Leader orders arrangements to increase enrichment capacity to 190K SWUs

Ayatollah Khamenei orders Iran’s atomic organization to be ready to increase nuclear enrichment

TEHRAN - Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Monday ordered the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) to take rapid steps to increase uranium enrichment capacities if the nuclear agreement falls apart.

Iran begins to develop infrastructure to build advanced centrifuges

TEHRAN - The Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) said on Tuesday that it has begun work to prepare the infrastructure for building advanced centrifuges at the Natanz enrichment facility, while respecting its commitments under the 2015 nuclear deal.

By Hanif Ghaffari

Will Europe give in to Washington’s demands?

TEHRAN – U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's remarks on the nuclear deal with Iran have been widely reflected in the world's political circles. Many of the international affairs analysts consider these statements to be "the White House full confrontation with Iran," and they argue that terms stated by the new U.S. Secretary of State are not to be realized. Pompeo's speech was delivered as the negotiations between Iran and the European troika on maintaining the nuclear deal are going on.

Pomeo’s conditions for Iran are a nonstarter: American expert

The 12 conditions put forth for Iran by U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo are a nonstarter, a former advisor at the U.S. Department of State believes.

Jewish lawmaker: ‘We are united in defending Iran’

TEHRAN - Iranian Jewish lawmaker Siamak Moreh Sedgh said on Wednesday that enemies should know that Iranians are ready to defend the country unitedly.

By Rohollah Ghasemian

Washington-Brussels parallel talks over the JCPOA

Recently, French President Emmanuel Macron has taken a controversial position on the nuclear deal with Iran. On a telephone call to Hassan Rouhani, the President of the Islamic Republic of Iran, which was 48 hours after the official announcement of Trump’s withdrawal from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), he stressed his commitment to the nuclear deal, and in turn, he asked Iran to be committed to the agreement.

By Seyed Hossein Mousavian

Pompeo's demands on Iran at odds with reality

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo laid out a list of demands on Iran in a speech threatening to "crush" the country on Monday. His bellicose words come weeks after President Donald Trump pulled the United States out of the Iran nuclear deal and are nothing short of an ultimatum demanding Iran's total surrender to U.S. wishes.

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.

Tehran: Pompeo alien to diplomacy and Iranian nuclear program

TEHRAN - Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Bahram Qassemi said on Saturday that Iran as a signatory to the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) has the right to enrich uranium and has also mastered this technology.

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.

By Payman Yazdani

Pompeo speech an exercise in idiocy: Prof. Zonis

TEHRAN - Marvin Zonis, Professor of international political economy believes that the Pompeo speech was an exercise in idiocy that only provides Trump with excuse to pressure the government in Iran in any way possible to bring about regime change in Iran.

Leader says don’t tie affairs to JCPOA

Ayatollah Khamenei says "flexibility" will make enemy more aggressive

TEHRAN – Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Leader of the Islamic Revolution, on Wednesday called on the government “not to tie the country’s affairs to the JCPOA (nuclear deal) and foreign issues.”

No toleration for cap on Iran’s missile power: Hatami

TEHRAN – Defense Minister Amir Hatami said on Wednesday that Iran would never compromise on its missile power, reiterating Tehran’s long held position that Iran’s missile power is of defensive nature, Fars reported.

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.

Pompeo’s demands ‘are completely divorced from reality’: Washington Post

In a commentary on Tuesday the Washington Post said the new U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s demands from Iran “are completely divorced from reality”.

U.S. foreign policy up for rent, Zarif says

TEHRAN – Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says the U.S. foreign policy has been turned into a “rental” and any pressure group which can pay more will be able to move the U.S. toward its own objectives.

By Martin Love

Who does Pompeo think he is kidding?

Mike Pompeo, the new U.S. Secretary of State in the Trump administration, has this week made radical demands upon the sovereign and significant and thousands of year old state of Iran (or Persia, as you will) and its 90 or so million people that, in effect, can either make a sane and reasonable person do one of two things, or both: Be rolled with uncontrollable laughter and/or curled up into a ball of lachrymose despair. And I alone, as a U.S. citizen, am not alone in thinking so inside the U.S.

Pompeo’s remarks are show of weakness: Iran’s security chief

TEHRAN – Iran’s Secretary of Supreme National Security Council Ali Shamkhani said on Tuesday that the U.S. “fruitless efforts” to restrict Iran’s rising power and influence are sign of Washington’s “weakness”.

Iran VP: Pompeo lagging 40 years behind the time

TEHRAN – Iranian Vice President Es’haq Jahangiri said on Tuesday that U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is lagging 40 years behind the time, pointing to the 1979 Islamic Revolution as a backlash against foreign influence.

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.

By Haniyeh Sadat Jafariyeh

Gas first – energy for peace

When history is written, then President Trump's decision on 8th May to abandon the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) agreement with Iran may well be seen as a historic turning point.

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.

'No alternative' to Iran deal, EU's Mogherini tells U.S.

BRUSSELS – European Union foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini warned Monday there was "no alternative" to the Iran nuclear deal, after U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo vowed unprecedented sanctions against Tehran following Washington´s withdrawal from the pact.

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”.

Was it plan B or declaration of war by Pompeo?!!!

TEHRAN - After Trump announced U.S. pullout from the 2015 nuclear deal (JCPOA) on May 8, his new secretary of state Mike Pompeo on Monday set out Washington’s plan B which looked more like a declaration of war rather that a new roadmap.

By staff and agencies

U.S. threatens ‘strongest sanctions in history’ on Iran

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced on Monday that the U.S. will apply economic and military pressure against Iran and will impose “the strongest sanctions in history” on the Islamic Republic.

Iran: Any talks with U.S. is ludicrous after JCPOA experience

TEHRAN – The Iranian Foreign Ministry has forthrightly rejected its regard for any talks with Washington in response to a developing plan by the U.S. administration to initiate new nuclear negotiations with Tehran.

There can be no peace at cost of Iran’s security

The vicious alliance between Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman (commonly known as MBS), Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Donald Trump against Iran has become more evident more than ever.