By Daniel Dale, Nicole Gaouette and Zachary Cohen

Fact check: Trump wrong on all 3 claims in tweet on Iran deal

WASHINGTON (CNN) - President Donald Trump's Wednesday tweet on the Iran nuclear deal contained three inaccurate claims.

‘Not enough progress’ in Vienna talks on salvaging Iran nuclear deal

Iran's deputy foreign minister says progress has been made in Vienna talks aimed at saving the 2015 nuclear deal with world powers but the demands of the Islamic Republic are yet to be met.

By M.A. Saki

“Very sad for the Iranian people!”

In a tweet on May 20, Donald Trump said he is “very sad for the Iranian people” that their economy is collapsing.

By Mohammad Ghaderi - Twitter: @ghaderi62 - Email: m.ghaderi62@gmail.com

Will U.S. next administration rejoin Iran nuclear deal?

TEHRAN - U.S. Democrat party is now getting ready to compete with Donald Trump for 2020 presidential election. Most Democrat candidates, however, have claimed that if they win the elections, they will re-enter Iran nuclear deal, officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).

By Hamid Bayati

Will Joe Biden revive Iran nuclear deal? 

TEHRAN - These days the name of Joe Biden, former U.S. vice president, is on the top news everywhere in U.S.  

By Javad Heirannia    

Iran's oil exports are unlikely to reach zero: Ali Vaez

TEHRAN - Ali Vaez, director of the Iran program for International Crisis Group says that “The U.S. is clearly trying to push Iran to walk away from the nuclear deal. The new nuclear restrictions are aimed at pushing other JCPOA signatories to join Washington in violating the deal.”

Sources: Elements of Trump admin pushing to save Iran deal, outlast Trump

Officials inside the Trump administration have been pursuing policies that would leave large parts of the nuclear deal with Iran in place, including limiting the amount of pressure placed on Tehran through financial and oil sanctions, according to multiple sources who spoke to the Washington Free Beacon about a growing inter-agency battle.

Virginia senator: Trump’s withdrawal from JCPOA was idiotic

Virginia Senator, Timothy Kaine, on Saturday described Donald Trump's withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal, known as the JCPOA (the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action), as a foolish act resulting from Trump's jealousy towards his predecessor Barack Obama.

Washington has taken its animus towards Iran to a new extreme over the past two years, Zarif laments

Zarif: U.S. policies driven by pathological obsession with Iran

TEHRAN – In a speech to the Munich Security Conference on Sunday, Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif criticized Washington’s policy toward Iran, saying the U.S. is maddeningly obsessed with Iran 

Germany rejects U.S. call to leave Iran nuclear deal

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has rejected U.S. calls to withdraw from the Iran nuclear deal and cancel a controversial gas pipeline project with Russia.

Trump delivers 2nd State of Union address

U.S. President Donald Trump has delivered his second State of the Union address after the speech was postponed by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi for almost two weeks over the government shutdown.

Youths are Iran’s greatest asset, scholar says

TEHRAN - Modjtaba Sadria, a prominent scholar, has said that the people between ages of 25 to 40 are the main social group in the Iranian society which form the main wealth of the country.

Plan to hold Middle East conference in Warsaw irks Brussels

Trump seeks to split EU as fight intensifies over Iran nuclear deal

It's Warsaw and Washington against the big EU powers, as U.S. President Donald Trump's administration pushes to kill the Iran nuclear deal — and to exploit European divisions on foreign policy in the process.

Austrian president: It’s important to keep nuclear deal alive

TEHRAN – Austrian President Alexander Van der Bellen has supported efforts to preserve the 2015 nuclear deal, officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action.

Salehi warns of ominous fallout if Iran nuclear deal breaks down

Ali Akbar Salehi, the head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, on Monday warned the European Union of ominous consequences if it did not follow through with action to keep the economic benefits of the 2015 nuclear agreement alive.

Zarif holds phone talks with 4 top European diplomats

TEHRAN – Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has held phone conversations with EU Foreign Policy Chief Federica Mogherini as well as his counterparts from Germany, Sweden and Denmark to discuss the nuclear deal and other issues.

“U.S. support for Saudi Arabia, Israel emboldened them for atrocity”

Zarif: U.S. sanctions will not work

TEHRAN- Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has said that although U.S. sanctions on Tehran hurt, they will not work.

Switzerland would join alternative to U.S. -dependent payment System: ambassador

Swiss Ambassador to Moscow Yves Rossier has affirmed that his country can join other states in setting up an independent alternative the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT).

By Hanif Ghaffari

Europe’s support of Iran’s JCPOA: Actions speak louder than words

TEHRAN - Iran is calling for keeping the European countries in the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action formally known as JCPOA, including Germany, to save it, without the participation of the United States. But the Germans are reluctant to continue to cooperate with Iran due to U.S. secondary sanctions.

‘U.S. sanctions on Iran unproductive & wrong': Novak

TEHRAN- U.S. sanctions on Iran's oil industry are unproductive and there will be consequences to such a move, Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak said on Monday.

Mattis questioning efficacy of Trump’s nuclear deal exit: NYT 

In Defense Secretary James Mattis has begun questioning the efficacy of Donald Trump’s decision to pull out of the Iran nuclear deal — a move that, again, was made against his advice, the New York Times said on Sunday in a commentary headlined “Fraying Ties With Trump Put Jim Mattis’s Fate in Doubt”.

By Mohammad Ghaderi - Twitter: @ghaderi62 - Email: m.ghaderi62@gmail.com

Mogherini is happy, why not!

EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini is now satisfied over Iran's commitment to the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). As it was recently reported by Xinhua, Mogherini said that Tehran complies with all its nuclear related commitments and that is a "good news", when EU is still working on preserving the Iranian nuclear deal.

By staff and agency

Russian, German diplomats discuss nuclear deal

Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov and Antje Leendertse, director of the political directorate-general of Germany’s Federal Foreign Office, discussed the 2015 nuclear deal, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action.

'Trump pressing permanent UN Security Council members to violate nuclear deal'

Trump has gone beyond threatening Iran: Princeton researcher

Seyed Hossein Mousavian, a Princeton University researcher and former Iranian ambassador, says U.S. President Donald Trump “has gone beyond threatening Iran”.

We will fight for JCPOA, German FM says

TEHRAN – German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas has said that his country along with other European powers will fight for the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, known as the JCPOA, to keep it alive, even without the U.S.

Contradiction in Washington: Trump, Pompeo at odds over Iran preconditions

U.S. President Donald Trump says he is ready to meet his Iranian counterpart, Hassan Rouhani, “any time they want to.”

‘Iran’s scientists uncrushed by decades of sanctions’

U.S. President Donald Trump’s unilateral withdrawal from the 2015 nuclear agreement (Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, JCPOA) in May would not affect Iran’s scientific progress, vice-dean for research in the Faculty of Medicine at Tehran University of Medical Sciences has said.

Mohammad Ghaderi - Twitter: @ghaderi62 - Email: m.ghaderi62@gmail.com

NATO and the puzzle of a nuclear deal with Iran

A meeting of NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) Heads of State and Government was held on Wednesday 11 and Thursday 12 July 2018 in Brussels, Belgium. NATO leaders met in Brussels amidst a terse environment that threatens to further weaken the post-war order.

By Hanif Ghaffari

The true face of American Democrats

Donald Trump's withdrawal from the nuclear deal with Iran and the re-enforcement of U.S. secondary sanctions against our country have raised the opposition of the Democratic politicians and members of the U.S. Senate.