Reuters - France is ready to impose further sanctions on Iran if no progress is made in talks over its ballistic missile program, the French foreign minister said on Friday. Jean-Yves Le Drian, who this week reiterated support for a European-backed system to facilitate non-dollar trade with Iran and circumvent U.S. sanctions, said France wanted ...

Daily look at Irans late-breaking news and upcoming events:   Leader: No room for taking stance on nuclear issue The Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution said Thursday that he is neither for nor against the nuclear issue [a reference to the agreement Iran and P5+1 arrived at in Lausanne last week].   Iran marks National Nuclear ...

[caption id="attachment_150154" align="alignright" width="169"] Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif[/caption] Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says the European Union (EU)s move to put the countrys biggest tanker firm back on its sanctions list defies logic. Their move is against logic because the West has not yet realizedthat ...

[caption id="attachment_151816" align="alignright" width="206"] Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei in a meeting with people of Azerbaijan[/caption] Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei says Iran can stand up to sanctions against the country and foil enemys plots. Serious work should be done. We can resist ...

[caption id="attachment_25659" align="alignright" width="156"] Sharif University of Technology[/caption] TEHRAN (Tasnim) Irans foreign ministry and presidential office for legal affairs pursue European Unions new sanctions against Sharif University of Technology through legal channels, the prestigious university's chancellor said on Tuesday. Mahmoud ...

A European court has ordered that an Iranian firm be paid compensation for the inclusion of its name on the anti-Iran sanctions list. The European General Court issued its verdict with regard to the legal case of the Iranian company, Safa Nicu Sepahan, on Tuesday, saying the firm should be paid 50,000 euros in compensation for being unwarrantedly ...

Tehran, Nov 26, IRNA Minister of Finance and Economic Affairs Ali Tayebnia says the impact of the sanctions will be taken into account in the national budget bill for the Iranian calendar year 1394 (March 2015-March 2016). He said a panel of economic experts set up by the government has been studying various scenarios for the national economy so ...

[caption id="attachment_25659" align="alignright" width="129"] Sharif University of Technology[/caption] The Iranian judiciary's Human Rights Commission has denounced the European Union's decision to once again impose sanctions on one of Iran's top universities, Sanati Sharif, describing it as a "violation of international rights." IRNA reports that ...