“Today, marine vessels which cruise at 90nots/h will be unveiled… God willing, we will go toward (building) speed vessels with 100knots/h speed,” Rear Admiral Tangsiri told reporters on Monday ahead of a ceremony to inaugurate 340 navy speedboats in the port city of Bandar Abbas. “Iran has several times sent …
Read More »Iran ‘not after nuclear weapons,’ says Tehran as US suggests it almost has enough ‘fissile material’ for atomic bomb
“Iran has not been and is not after nuclear weapons,” said Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh on Monday, as he rebuked the remarks of White House National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan. “We advise the US to take a lesson from four years of Iran’s resistance and Trump’s maximum failure …
Read More »Tehran says Biden administration must remove crippling sanctions if they want Iran to cut enhanced enrichment program
Speaking on Friday during a visit to Istanbul, Mohammad Javad Zarif told reporters that US hopes that Iran would immediately reverse its nuclear program “are neither logical nor will ever be realized.” “The logic is that the person who left the agreement will return to it, and we, who are …
Read More »Tehran to use Russian, Chinese, Indian & own vaccines, while US jabs are rejected due to ‘lack of trust’ – Iranian FM to RT
In an interview to be broadcast on Thursday, Zarif told host Oksana Boyko that the Russian jab against the coronavirus will be both “used and produced” in the country. On Tuesday, Iran became yet another nation to register Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine. “We will get the Russian vaccine; we will …
Read More »‘Absolute nonsense’: Iranian FM rejects French claim that Tehran is building up nuclear weapons capacity
The top Iranian diplomat took to Twitter on Sunday, sending an angry message to France’s foreign minister. Zarif signaled that Paris is in no position to lecture Tehran on anything, pointing fingers at French arms sales to Saudi Arabia – and getting quite personal with Le Drian as well. “Dear …
Read More »‘Our people won’t be a testing device’: Tehran bans trials of foreign vaccines on Iranians
“Foreign companies wanted to give us vaccines so they would be tested on the Iranian people. But the health ministry prevented it,” Rouhani told state TV, without naming the producers that tried contacting the government in Tehran. The Iranian authorities will purchase foreign vaccines – without naming them – that …
Read More »Israel rejects ‘nonsense’ claim by Tehran that it’s plotting false flag attack to drag US & Iran into war
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif’s claim that Israel was plotting attacks on US forces in Iraq in order to spark a military conflict in the region was “total nonsense,” Israel’s Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz said on Sunday. According to Steinitz, it was Israel that needed to be on guard …
Read More »No US-Iran peace till there is democracy in Tehran, says ex-diplomat McFaul, who’s ‘surprised’ by negative feedback
The observation, which the Obama-era diplomat shared with his Twitter followers on Friday, provoked an avalanche of critical responses. McFaul later even said he was surprised that his “analytical statement” that simply rehashed a theory that democracies generally get on together well was taken as a policy suggestion to Tehran. …
Read More »Tehran will not renegotiate nuclear deal or ‘compromise on its national security’ – Iranian govt spokesman
Khatibzadeh’s comments come after Germany’s Heiko Maas called for a ‘nuclear plus’ agreement last week, a reference to expanding the terms of the 2015 deal to cap the Iranian nuclear program. “All those familiar with the international laws know that Iran will not do renegotiation on something which has been …
Read More »Tehran adds ‘aircraft carrier warship’ to Iran’s navy amid rising tensions with Washington
The 150-meter Shahid Roudaki vessel is “ready to carry out missions,” Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said in a statement on its website. The IRGC’s existing fleet mainly comprises small vessels off the Iranian coast and near the Strait of Hormuz, a strategic choke point on a major international …
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