Trump sanctions Iran’s central bank

President Donald Trump on Friday said he has ordered sanctions on Iran’s central bank at “the highest level.”

FBI’s intimidation campaign against American freethinkers

TEHRAN – With an international conference on peace and truth about to open in Beirut, the FBI has launched an intimidation campaign against American academicians, veterans and activists who were invited to the conference in order to prevent their participation. 

Trump begging for a meeting with Rouhani: Hezbollah chief

TEHRAN – Hezbollah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said in a speech on Friday that U.S. President Donald Trump is begging for a meeting with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani.

Should the U.S. think of a war, it will face a response from the Mediterranean to the Indian Ocean, Rahim Safavi warns

Iranian general warns broad response awaits any U.S. military move

TEHRAN – Should the Americans think of orchestrating a plot against Iran, they will be faced with the Iranian nation’s response from the Mediterranean to the Indian Ocean, says Major General Yahya Rahim Safavi, a top military adviser to Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Leader of the Islamic Revolution.

U.S. has resorted to 'maximum deception' against Iran: UN envoy

TEHRAN – The Iranian ambassador to the United Nations has written a letter to the UN General Assembly and the UN Security Council rejecting claims that Iran was behind the attacks on the Saudi Aramco oil facilities on September 14.

U.S. ‘maximum pressure’ on Iran is not working, says cleric

TEHRAN – Tehran Friday prayer leader Ayatollah Mohammad-Ali Movahedi Kermani says Washington’s “maximum pressure” policy against Iran is not working.

U.S. fails to condemn Iran at UNSC over Aramco accusation

TEHRAN – The United States has failed to condemn Iran over Yemenis’ attacks on Saudi Arabia’s oil installations at the UN Security Council.

Zarif to Pompeo: You’ve got it all wrong

TEHRAN – Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says his American counterpart, Secretary of States Mike Pompeo, has it the other way around when it comes to who wishes to “fight to the last American”.

Talks with U.S. impossible if it does not return to nuclear deal: MP

TEHRAN – Abolfazl Mousavi, an Iranian MP, has said that talks with the United States will be impossible if Washington does not return to the 2015 nuclear deal, known as the JCPOA.

Zarif says U.S. values Arab oil more than Arab blood

TEHRAN – Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said on Thursday that the United States values oil more than the lives of the Arab people, criticizing Washington’s hypocrisy regarding the war on Yemen.