President says Imam Khomeini depended solely on the power of the people

President Hassan Rouhani said on Monday Imam Khomeini depended solely on the power of the people, knowing that “soft power” would eventually triumph over “hard power.”

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

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.

Sanctions on Iranian religious studies university prove ‘US hostility toward science’

An Iran-headquartered religious studies university blasts the United States for bringing it under sanctions as part of Washington’s ongoing policy of mounting “maximum pressure” on the Islamic Republic. Al-Mustafa International University, an open university that is based in the north-central Iranian city of Qom, issued the remarks in a statement on Thursday, two days after its designation as a target by the US Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC).

US sanctions block Iran’s purchase of COVID-19 vaccine

The governor of the Central Bank of Iran (CBI) says inhumane sanctions imposed by the United States against Iran prevent the country from purchasing coronavirus vaccine as the deadly virus takes its toll on the Iranian nation. In a post on his Instagram page on Monday, Abdolnasser Hemmati said the purchase of the coronavirus vaccine should be officially made through the World Health Organization (WHO).

Rouhani: New US sanctions on Iran ‘terrorist, cruel’ effort to prevent medicine, food purchases ...

Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani says new sanctions imposed by the United States on the Iranian banking sector amount to an effort of a ‘terrorist, cruel and inhumane’ nature aimed at putting major obstacles to fund transfers for the purchase of medicine and food amid the coronavirus pandemic.

Intl. day for elimination of nukes: Iran stresses right to peaceful nuclear energy

The Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) has stressed the country’s right to use nuclear energy for peaceful purposes, saying that sanctions on Iranian scientists will not hamper such activities.