In response to Trump's decision to cancel the nuclear deal with Iran, the Iranian president has informed Hassan Rohani on TV that the Tehran is ready to resume its nuclear program. But before that happens, he will first talk to the countries involved in concluding the agreement, especially from the EU.
Iran has condemned Donald Trump's decision to step out of the nuclear agreement as 'illegal.' The state television spoke of an 'unlawful' state of affairs and 'undermining international agreements.'
Employees of US President Donald Trump have hired an Israeli intelligence company to monitor the private lives of former employees of President Barack Obama who played a role in the realization of the nuclear agreement with Iran. The goal was to discredit the agreement. This reveals the British newspaper The Observer, the Sunday edition of The Guardian.
The oil price rises Friday evening worries that the United States will stop its agreement with Iran on nuclear power reduction in exchange for lifting sanctions.
The nuclear agreement that Iran concluded with a number of superpowers in 2015 has, according to the White House, been made under false pretenses. A US government spokeswoman said that at the time, Iran was much more advanced in developing a nuclear program than it claimed.
Morocco is going to break diplomatic ties with Iran. Moroccan minister Nasser Bourita (Foreign Affairs) accuses Tehran and Hezbollah of training and arming fighters of independence movement Polisario.
European countries have responded cautiously to accusations of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to Iran. He claimed Monday that Tehran lied for years about the development of nuclear weapons. The British minister Boris Johnson (Foreign Affairs) said in a reaction that the nuclear agreement 'is not based on trust in the good intentions of Iran.'
Prime Minister Netanyahu has entered into a confrontation with Iran by looking at that country for the eyes of the world shortly after an attack on an Iranian rocket repository in Syria. With a theatrical presentation, he revealed 100,000 secret Iranian documents showing how Tehran worked secretly for years on an atomic bomb.
Cooperation between Saudi Arabia and the United States will further destabilize the Middle East. That is what a senior Iranian official said on Monday. He added that Tehran will remain in the region despite pressure from Washington to limit its influence.
The US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has a flying start as a minister. After not reporting twelve hours after his appointment at NATO in Brussels on Friday, he arrived in Saudi Arabia on Saturday, at the beginning of a short journey through the Middle East.
The agreements on the cessation of the Iranian nuclear weapons program that Tehran made in 2015 with global superpowers are working and the EU is adhering to it. Implementation is essential for security in Europe and beyond, EU foreign delegation Federica Mogherini said Wednesday in Brussels.
US President Donald Trump once again strongly criticized the nuclear deal with Iran. He called the agreement 'insane' and 'ridiculous.' Trump made that statement during the visit of his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron, who wants to prevent Trump from withdrawing from the nuclear agreement with Tehran.
Iran has sharply condemned the rocket attacks of Americans British and French on Syria. Tehran called it a gross violation of international law and the sovereignty of Syria.
The European Union has extended its sanctions against Iran for one year due to serious human rights violations. The assets of 82 Iranians in the EU remain frozen. They also do not receive a visa for Europe.
The United States is conducting feverish consultations with France and Great Britain about military action against Syria. After the harsh words of Donald Trump yesterday, who warned that the 'missiles are coming', America has left the door ajar for a diplomatic solution. 'We study all options,' said the spokeswoman for the White House. But it is expected that the diplomatic door will be slammed quickly and hard.
The United Kingdom, France and Germany have prepared new European sanctions against Iran. The measures are a response to Tehran's role in the conflict in Syria and to ballistic missile tests, according to a confidential document that Reuters news agency has recognized and has been sent to all EU Member States.
The BBC is going to call on the United Nations to force Iran to stop the intimidation of BBC Persian staff in London and their families in Iran. According to the British broadcaster, the country is putting more and more pressure on employees of Iranian origin, for example through intimidation and travel bans. Family members are also arrested.
Iran has, in terms of its nuclear activities, complied with the major restrictions imposed in 2015 in an agreement with the major powers. This appears from a quarterly report from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), which the Reuters news agency has seen on Thursday.
Wreckage pieces of a Sunday crashed Iranian plane have finally been traced in the inaccessible and snowy Zagros Mountains in southern Iran.
According to local media, an airplane crashed in the south of Iran with at least 60 passengers on board. It was a device from Aseman Airlines, which disappeared from the radar on the way from Tehran to Yasuj.
Sweden has a scientist who is detained in Tehran for espionage and has been sentenced to death for it, in order to prevent any execution of that sentence. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has announced this on Saturday.
An Iranian-Canadian activist has been deprived of life in captivity. A prosecutor said in the Iranian capital Tehran, after the son of Kavous Seyed-Emami had reported the death of his father via Twitter.
The regime of Bashar al-Assad accuses the United States of war crimes after a bloody confrontation that exposed the many dangers of the current struggle in Syria. Now that Islamic State has fallen away as a common enemy, there is high tension on the whole country, which is currently going through the deadliest week since time.
The smartphones that sponsor Samsung hands out to the athletes during the Winter Games in Pyeongchang cause a remarkable problem. Because of UN sanctions, the athletes from North Korea and Iran do not get one. Iran is now in anger and has called the ambassador of South Korea in Tehran on the carpet.
Turkish forces have established a military observation post on Monday, south-west of Aleppo, near al-Eis. The army of the Erdogan government has penetrated deeper into Syria after an agreement with Russia and Iran on reducing the violence in the region. However, there is nothing to notice about de-escalation.
The Houthi rebels in Yemen have again fired a rocket on Saudi Arabia. The Saudis intercepted the projectile, an army spokesman said.
US President Donald Trump is currently maintaining the international agreement on curbing Iran's nuclear program. Iran and six world powers have to adjust the agreement within 120 days. Otherwise American sanctions will follow against Iran. That reported the White House Friday.
US President Donald Trump leaves the international agreement on restraining the Iranian nuclear program intact for the time being. He will announce that decision on Friday. In this way, Trump wants to give himself and Congress more time to lay a legal basis for new sanctions against Iran.
The Iranian cleric Mahmud Hashemi Shahrudi, who was prosecuted for crimes against humanity in Germany, has left this country in haste. Ayatollah Shahrudi was in the past chief of the Iranian judiciary and would have been involved in illegal death sentences.
