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US expands scope of Iran metals sanctions
Updated : 5 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [US], July 31 (Xinhua/ANI): The United States on Thursday expanded the scope of Iran metals-related sanctions by identifying 22 specific materials, a move to constrain Iran's nuclear, military programs.
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Mike Pompeo urges UNSC to extend arms embargo against Iran
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington DC [US], July 1 (ANI): US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Tuesday (local time) urged UN Security Council to extend the arms embargo on Iran which is scheduled to expire in October.
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US sanctions Iranian Minister over human rights abuses
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [US], May 21 (ANI): US has sanctioned Iran's Interior Minister, Abdolreza Rahmani Fazli, for his alleged role in "serious human rights abuses against Iranians", US Treasury Department said on Wednesday (local time).
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Iranian Foreign Minister sends warning letter to UN about US threats to Ir
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Tehran [Iran], May 18 (ANI): Iran will retaliate if the United States takes action against fuel deliveries to Venezuela, country's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said on Sunday.
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Iran has friends, no proxies: Javad Zarif hits back Donald Trump
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Tehran [Iran], April 2 (ANI): Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on Thursday hit back at US President Donald Trump, saying Tehran has no proxies but it has friends.
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Amid COVID-19 crisis, US slaps Iranian individuals with fresh sanctions
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Tehran [Iran], Mar 27 (ANI): As Iran struggles to battle the spread of COVID-19, the United States on Thursday heaped more economic pressure on the country by slapping a fresh round of sanctions on more than a dozen Iranian individuals and five companies.
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Unverified info of six F-35 jets on Iran's borders at time of plane crash
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Moscow [Russia], Jan 18 (ANI): Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Friday (local time) said that there is unverified information that at least six American F-35 jets were "in the Iranian border area" when Iran accidentally downed a Ukraine International Airlines flight near Tehran airp
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Pak sponsoring terror, should do more to take non-reversible action agains
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], Jan 16 (ANI): Underlining that terror groups are active in Pakistan, the United Kingdom (UK) on Thursday said that Islamabad should do more to take "non-reversible" action against terrorism if it wants to prevent itself from being blacklisted by the Financial Action Tas
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Iran's Javad Zarif meets NSA Ajit Doval in Delhi
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], Jan 15 (ANI): Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif met National Security Advisor (NSA) Ajit Doval here on Wednesday.
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US, Iran are individualistic countries, ball is in their court: Jaishankar
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], Jan 15 (ANI): Amid heightened tensions in the Middle East region, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Wednesday spoke about the current state of relations between the United States and Iran, saying they are two "individualistic countries" with a recent history of dea
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Rockets target Iraqi military camp, hosting US troops
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Baghdad [Iraq], Jan 15 (ANI): The Taji military base camp, located north of the Iraqi capital, was on Tuesday targeted by Katyusha rockets, with no casualties reported, the Iraqi military said.
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US killed Soleimani 'No. 1 terrorist ... in world,' says Trump as Iran pro
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Jan 14 (ANI): US President Donald Trump on Monday again defended his move of terminating Iranian general Qasem Soleimani by dubbing him as the 'no. 1 terrorist ... in the world' as Tehran witnessed a consecutive third day of protests denouncing the country's Islamic
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