FM Zarif says Biden’s US should seize chance to lift bans

Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has urged US President Joe Biden to end his predecessor’s fruitless pressure policy against Iran and begin the process of rejoining the 2015 nuclear agreement by lifting all unilateral sanctions unconditionally, warning that the “window of opportunity will not be open” for the new White House team forever.

President Rouhani says Trump registered state terrorism on US record by assassinating Soleimani

Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani says outgoing American president, Donald Trump, registered state terrorism on America’s official record by openly accepting responsibility for the assassination of top Iranian anti-terror commander Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani in a third country.

President Hassan Rouhani hails departure of 'tyrant' Trump

Iran's President Hassan Rouhani on Wednesday hailed the departure of "tyrant" US counterpart Donald Trump, who is due to leave office later in the day making way for President-elect Joe Biden.

Lebanese groups censure US sanctions on Iran’s Astan Quds Razavi

Advocacy group calls Israel apartheid regime for first time

An Israeli advocacy group says Israel is not a democracy but an “apartheid regime” that systematically oppresses the Palestinians via military occupation and racist laws.

Iran says has serious evidence of Israeli role in scientist assassination

Iran’s Defense Minister Brigadier General Amir Hatami says “serious evidence” is available of Israeli role in the assassination of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, one of the country’s most senior nuclear scientists.

Iranian lawmakers denounce US blacklisting of Al-Mustafa University

President Rouhani says Iran government trying to render US sanctions ineffective

Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani has censured the US for blocking the import of almost everything to the country, including medicine and COVID-19 vaccine, saying, however, that his government is doing its best to make the illegal US sanctions ineffective.