By Javad Heirannia

U.S. won’t allow Saudi Arabia to have full cycle of uranium enrichment and reprocessing: 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 when Iran had her nuclear dispute with the West, many people in the West, as well as many officials in the Persian Gulf littoral states, including Saudi Arabia, kept asking why despite her vast oil reserves Iran needed nuclear reactors.

West misusing “gender equality”, the Leader says

Iran’s regional policy none of U.S., Europe’s business

TEHRAN - The Leader of the Islamic Revolution has deplored comments made by some Western officials, the Americans in particular, against Iran’s foreign policy in the Middle East, asserting that the issue is none of their business.

By Reuters and staff 

Europeans engage with Iran on regional issues 

European powers and Iran have started talks over Tehran’s role in the Middle East and will meet again this month in Italy as part of efforts to prove to U.S. President Donald Trump that they are meeting his concerns over the 2015 nuclear deal, according to Reuters.

U.S. reviving terrorists in Mideast, North Africa: Shamkhani

TEHRAN – The Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) has warned that Washington is reviving terrorist groups in the Middle East and North Africa.

Diplomat says Iran’s proposal for regional dialogue still up for grabs

TEHRAN – Iran’s Ambassador to Copenhagen, Morteza Moradi, said on Sunday that Tehran’s proposal for dialogue among Middle Eastern countries is still up for grabs, ILNA reported.

By Mohammad Ghaderi

Iran a big help in push to eliminate ISIL

TEHRAN - Iran’s ex-defense minister says that Iran’s engagement in the fight against ISIL in the Middle East has been a wakeup call to the world about the menace of this and other terrorist groups.

“At Damascus Time” director wants Middle East to see his film 

TEHRAN – Iranian director Ebrahim Hatamikia has said that he is eager to see “At Damascus Time”, his latest film on Daesh, screened in the Middle East.

By Javad Heirannia

Everybody knows JCPOA was not bilateral agreement between Iran and U.S.: Professor

TEHRAN - Professor Farhang Jahanpour, part-time tutor on the Middle East in the Department of Continuing Education at the University of Oxford, tells the Tehran Times that “President Trump’s recent speech on Iran was the most belligerent speech by any U.S. president about Iran since the Iranian revolution.”

By Payman Yazdani

U.S. invests in creating unrests in Iran to its geopolitical interests: Geopolitical expert

TEHRAN - Commenting on recent turbulences in Iran Anthony Cartalucci says the U.S. still believes investing in the protests can create some sort of positive geopolitical return for their policy of undermining and coercing Iran domestically, regionally and internationally. 

By Payman Yazdani

People support, strategic external partnership to push back U.S. threat against Iran: Kovacevic

TEHRAN - Filip Kovacevic, professor of geopolitics, University of San Francisco believes the only way to thwart the U.S. threats against Iran’s Establishment is to meet the needs of people inside and having strategic external partnerships. 

By Mohammad Mazhari

What makes Iran stronger than Saudi Arabia?

TEHRAN - After the return of economic prosperity in Lebanon, Saad Hariri declared his resignation in Saudi Arabia, citing Iranian influence across the region and claiming he feared the same fate as his assassinated father if he remained leader. That was the spark that ignited the fire of war against Iran and served to remind the Lebanese of their civil war in which many lives were lost. Subsequently Hariri suspended his resignation after two weeks which prompted many questions and suspicion.

By Mohammad Ghaderi

What Is Germany's Position on the JCPOA?

Sigmar Gabriel German Foreign Minister who is also one of the leaders of the Social-Democratic Party in the country, has recently held talks with members of the U.S. Congress over what he calls "preservation of the JCPOA". The German foreign ministry wrote in a Twitter post:

Military chief: Iran’s security owed to ‘strategic deterrence’

TEHRAN - Major General Mohammad Baqeri, chief of the Iranian armed forces, said on Sunday that Iran’s security comes from “strategic deterrence” which is “dynamic”.

By Mahmood Monshipouri

Trump’s Security Strategy: Upending Virtues of Multilateralism

President Trump articulated a new national security strategy on December 18, 2017, largely premised on a populist speech filled with the echoes of his campaign mantra of patriotism, prosperity and pride.   

‘Water diplomacy’ essential for West Asia, Iran says

TEHRAN - Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi said on Tuesday that “water diplomacy” is the most important necessity in water-hungry West Asia and this should be dealt with as a “security” issue.

By Martin Love  

Moral objection valid

North Carolina _  This is part personal, it is passionate, but it is nonetheless fully substantiated by facts and long study, experience and observation, real time objective observation, over decades. And after a while, if a person has half a brain and heart, one stops mincing words and throws caution to the winds and tries hard to tell and write truths that some others don’t want to hear and they, the others, try to squash such truth telling. But here goes, from an American journalist no less writing gladly for an Iranian newspaper.

Zarif: Iran seeking interests in a stable, prosperous Mideast

TEHRAN – Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said on Monday that Iran is seeking its interests in a “powerful”, “prosperous” and “stable” Middle East.

West Asia might collapse: advisor

TEHRAN – Hessameddin Ashena, an advisor to President Rouhani, warned on Saturday that Western Asia might collapse in the near future, unless regional countries resolve their problems.

Certain countries catch cold when Trump sneezes: Zarif

TEHRAN – Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said on Saturday that certain countries in the region depend too much on major powers, noting they catch a cold when U.S. President Donald Trump sneezes.

By Payman Yazdani

Turkish expert: Egypt stance toward Iran affected by Cairo-Riyadh ties 

TEHRAN _ Turkish Political analyst Semih Idiz says Cairo's position on Iran is driven not only by its close ties to Saudi Arabia, but because as a major Arab power it is also concerned about the increasing Iranian influence in the Middle East.

By Payman Yazdani

U.S. failed to fulfill its aims in Mid-East: Turkish expert

TEHRAN _ Professor of political science, Istanbul University Nuray Mert, believes the U.S. and its allies failed to fulfill their regional aims to disintegrate Middle East. 

BY Nosratollah Tajik

Leaked secret cable confirms Israeli-Saudi coordination to provoke war in Mid-East

Former Ambassador to Jordan, Nosratollah Tajik says Leaked Secret Israeli Zionist regime's Cable Confirms Israeli-Saudi Coordination to Provoke War in Middle East. 

Tehran to host security conference on January 8

TEHRAN – Jamal Shafi’ee, the chief of the Center for Strategic Studies of National Security, said on Monday that the second conference on regional security will be held in Tehran on January 8.

Zarif: Visits to Saudi Arabia ‘hazardous’ to region 

TEHRAN – Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said on Monday that visits by foreign officials to Saudi Arabia have “proved hazardous to regional health”.

by Zahra Sadat Khezri

Sanctions alone won't get North Korea to give up nuclear arms: Boston professor

TEHRAN - A professor of international relations from Boston University believes that economic sanctions alone will not prompt North Korea to abandon its nuclear weapons program.

Zarif: Iran made its way into regional security equations

TEHRAN – Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has said Iran has successfully managed to bring itself to the core of regional security equations.

By Andrew Hammond

The EU isn’t getting weaker – in fact, it’s planning to have its own army

Emmanuel Macron hosts his German, Spanish and Italian counterparts in Paris on Monday after a morale-boosting few weeks for the EU.

Iran urges U.S. to stop meddling in regional countries’ affairs

TEHRAN - Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Bahram Qassemi said on Thursday that the U.S. must stop meddling in domestic affairs of the countries in the Middle East region.