Iran rules out step-by-step lifting of sanctions

In an exclusive interview with Press TV, Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh rules out any step-by-step lifting of sanctions imposed on the Islamic Republic under former US president Donald Trump.

After Iran-China strategic partnership deal, US media warn of Washington's declining power

Major American papers and news outlets have warned about decline in the United States’ power and sphere of influence--particularly its failure to isolate Iran and China-- as they covered a historic agreement signed between Tehran and Beijing.

FM Zarif: Sino-Iranian comprehensive strategic partnership deal will strengthen ties

President Rouhani says Iran, China determined to boost long-term strategic ties, fight terrorism

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani says Iran and China are firmly determined to improve “strategic and long-term” cooperation in various political and economic fields and fight terrorism and extremism in the region.

Iran diplomat says UK plan to boost nuclear stockpile goes against philosophy of NPT

Tehran’s ambassador to Moscow has voiced Iran’s opposition to a controversial plan by the United Kingdom to increase its stockpile of atomic weapons, saying any nuclear technology should serve the concept of atoms for peace.

President Rouhani says new US administration did nothing to make up for past mistakes:

President Hassan Rouhani says the former “criminal” US administration did great injustice to the people of Iran with its terrorist acts, and that the new leadership in the White House has so far failed to take any practical measure to make up for the past wrongdoings.

Iranian foreign minister scolds ‘shameless’ suppliers of Saddam’s WMDs on anniv. of Halabja carnage

Iran’s foreign minister has blasted the Western countries that provided former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein with deadly chemicals, but now “care not to remember” his massacre of Iraqi people with the same weapons of mass destruction (WMDs).

European firms sued for aiding Saddam’s chemical attacks against Iranians

Sardasht, a small city in Iran’s West Azerbaijan Province, was targeted by Saddam’s Iraq on June 28, 1987, when Iraqi bombers attacked four densely populated parts of Sardasht with fatal chemical gasses.