Ex-WH official says Europe’s performance on nuclear deal is disappointing

TEHRAN - Professor Frank N. von Hippel, former assistant director for national security in the White House Office of Science and Technology, has said that Europe’s performance on the 2015 nuclear deal, known as the JCPOA, is “disappointing”.

The United States is losing its influence in the world: Canadian analyst

“Trump's ‘America First’ policy is destabilizing to the world’

TEHRAN - Edward Corrigan, an international lawyer and analyst from Canada, tells the Tehran Times that the power of the United States is declining in the world, and Europeans are taking steps “to separate themselves from the Americans economically and politically.”

UN arms embargo: Last chance for E3 to save Iran nuclear deal

Iranian government spokesman Ali Rabiei has warned France, Germany, and the UK against extending the UN arms embargo on Iran, signaling that doing so could spell the end of the Iran nuclear deal, officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).

China terms JCPOA as pillar of peace in West Asia

TEHRAN — Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian has said the Iran nuclear agreement, also known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), is an important pillar for the international nuclear non-proliferation regime and peace and stability in West Asia.

China says U.S. withdrawal from nuclear deal is source of tension

TEHRAN – Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian has said that the United States’ withdrawal from the 2015 nuclear deal, known as the JCPOA, is the main source of tension around Iran’s nuclear program.

Launching dispute resolution mechanism not a good idea, says Russian envoy

TEHRAN — Mikhail Ulyanov, Russia’s permanent representative to the Vienna-based international organizations, believes it’s not a good idea for the E3 countries and Iran to launch the dispute resolution mechanism (DRM) under the Iran nuclear agreement.

‘Future of nuclear deal depends on determination to keep it’

TEHRAN - Marc Otte, the former European Union’s special representative to the Middle East peace process, has said that future of the 2015 nuclear deal, officially known as the JCPOA, depends on the international determination to keep it.

‘Do not believe the hype,’ Zarif says regarding letter to Borrell

TEHRAN — Iran has triggered the JCPOA dispute resolution mechanism on at least six occasions, Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has said regarding his Friday letter to the EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell, in which he criticized the E3’s non-compliance with the nuclear agreement.

Ghalibaf: We won’t let IAEA complete espionage circle of hostile countries

TEHRAN — The Islamic Republic and its parliament will not allow the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to pursue completing the circle of espionage of hostile countries, Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf has warned.

Washington is pushing its European vassals to assume a more aggressive posture against Iran: Italian

Federico Pieraccini, an Italian independent geopolitical analyst at the Strategic Culture Foundation, tells the Tehran Times that the resolution adopted by the IAEA and drafted by the UK, France, and Germany is "a new excuse" to put much pressure on Iran, while "Iran has actually been too cooperative with the IAEA."

Russia says dispute resolution mechanism lacks clear procedure

TEHRAN – Russia’s permanent representative to international organizations in Vienna Mikhail Ulyanov said on Saturday that Dispute Resolution Mechanism lacks clear and agreed procedure.

EU foreign policy chief responds to Zarif’s letter

TEHRAN – EU Foreign Policy Chief Josep Borrell has responded to a letter by Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif regarding the E3’s non-compliance with the JCPOA, the official name for the 2015 nuclear deal.

Zarif writes to Borrell, denounces E3

TEHRAN — Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has sent a letter to the EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell to denounce the E3’s non-compliance with the JCPOA after the three European states drafted an anti-Iran resolution at the IAEA Board of Governors, according to Iran’s Foreign Ministry.

Iranian ambassador urges intl. community to respect 2231 resolution

TEHRAN – Iran’s Ambassador to Pakistan Mohammad Ali Hosseini has urged the international community, especially signatories to the 2015 nuclear deal known as the JCPOA, to respect the 2231 resolution of the UN Security Council.

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Russia warns an extension of arms embargo on Iran will jeopardize nuclear deal

Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova warned on Thursday that an extension of arms embargo on Iran will jeopardize efforts to preserve the 2015 nuclear deal, known as the JCPOA.

By Hamid Bayati

Iran’s interest lies in implementing JCPOA regardless of U.S. provocations, says ex-IAEA official

TEHRAN — The former head of Verification and Security Policy at the IAEA has said that it is in Iran’s strategic interest to continue implementing the JCPOA and the NPT regardless of U.S. provocations.

UNSC did not back U.S. bid to extend Iran arms embargo: envoy

TEHRAN — Majid Takht-Ravanchi, Iran's ambassador to the United Nations, has said the UN Security Council members did not endorse the U.S. government’s proposed resolution to extend an arms embargo on Iran.

World rebukes U.S. over Iran: Foreign Policy

TEHRAN — With Trump’s re-election prospects up in the air, a heated UN meeting on Iran shows world power’s fading fear of confronting the U.S., according to Foreign Policy article published on Tuesday.

Zarif slams Washington for undermining global peace, security

TEHRAN — Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has condemned Washington’s “malign” unilateralism, saying the United States has undermined global peace and security.

E3 believes U.S. has no legal right to trigger UN sanctions snapback: Iran’s diplomat

TEHRAN – Iran’s Ambassador to London Hamid Baeidinejad has said that France, Germany and the United Kingdom, known as E3, believe that the United States has no legal right to trigger a so-called snapback of all UN sanctions on Iran.

Croatian FM says nuclear deal should be preserved

TEHRAN – Croatian Foreign Minister Gordan Grlic-Radman said on Monday that the 2015 nuclear deal, known as the JCPOA, is a great achievement of diplomacy that must be preserved.

Zarif: U.S. punishes law-abiding countries

TEHRAN- Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has criticized the U.S. for violating the nuclear deal, known as JCPOA, saying the U.S. government is "bullying others to do so."

IAEA resolution shows efforts to discredit nuclear deal: UCLA professor

TEHRAN - Richard D. Anderson, a professor at the University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA), has said that a resolution issued by the International Atomic Energy Agency’s Board of Governors shows efforts to discredit the 2015 nuclear deal, known as the JCPOA.

Trump exited JCPOA out of hatred toward Obama’s achievements: professor

TEHRAN — A political science professor says Donald Trump’s narrow reason for the U.S. withdrawal from the 2015 nuclear deal was prompted by his hatred of any achievement by his predecessor Barack Obama.

Trump’s nuclear deal exit costly for U.S.: university professor

TEHRAN - Robin Ramcharan, a lecturer at the Webster University of Thailand and executive director of the Bangkok-based Asia Centre, has said that U.S. President Donald Trump’s withdrawal from the 2015 nuclear deal, known as the JCPOA, has been costly for the U.S.

By M.A. Saki

IAEA must obtain information through legal means: international law expert 

‘IAEA resolution on Iran is declaratory, non-obligatory’ 

TEHRAN – An international law expert says the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) must get information about member states’ nuclear program through “legal means”.

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Everything must be done to make sure JCPOA is not destroyed: Guterres

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Thursday that everything must be done to make sure that the 2015 nuclear deal, known as the JCPOA, is not destroyed.

Bolton: JCPOA exit was my happiest moment in Trump admin

TEHRAN — Former U.S. National Security Adviser John Bolton has said the U.S. withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal “was my happiest moment, probably of the whole time” in the Trump administration.

‘An international organization like IAEA must not rely on spying information’

TEHRAN - Diako Hosseini, director of the World Studies Program at the Presidential Centre for Strategic Studies, has said that an international organization such as the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) must not rely on spying information.

By Hamid Bayati

Pompeo has vowed to annihilate all of Iran’s JCPOA benefits: former French envoy

“Technically this should be feasible” to block U.S. move to extend arms embargo on Iran, Nicoullaud says

TEHRAN — U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has vowed to annihilate all the benefits that Iran could draw from the JCPOA, says a former French ambassador to Tehran.