President Rouhani says fate awaiting Trump no better than Saddam's

Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani has drawn a parallel between the hostile policies of outgoing US President Donald Trump and Iraq's Saddam Hussein for waging wars on the Islamic Republic, saying the American leader will eventually not fare much better than the former Iraqi dictator.

EU envoy to UN says there is no positive alternative to JCPOA:

The European Union ambassador to the UN has lended his full support to the 2015 nuclear agreement that was clinched between Iran and six major countries, saying there is no positive alternative to the accord which has withstood pressure over the past years.

Chomsky says Gen. Soleimani’s unlawful assassination showed US 'a rogue state'

President Rouhani says Iranians' resistance will make US give up sanctions

President Hassan Rouhani says he is confident that the next US administration will abandon its sanctions policy against the Iranian people and will bow under their “national power” and resistance. He made the remarks on Thursday in a ceremony held to inaugurate a number of Interior Ministry’s developmental plans.

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).

President Rouhani says fight against Israeli occupation, terrorism common goal of Iran, Syria:

President Hassan Rouhani has praised relations between Iran and Syria as strategic and fraternal, stressing that both Muslim nations share the common goal of countering the Israeli occupation and terrorism. During a meeting with the visiting Syrian Foreign Minister Faisal Mekdad in Tehran on Tuesday, Rouhani stated that Iran will resolutely and decisively stand by Syrian people and government as a strategic ally until their final victory.

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).

Prominent Iranian physicist assassinated near capital, Tehran

Prominent Iranian physicist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh has been assassinated in a terrorist attack near the capital Tehran.