FNA - Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister for International and Legal Affairs Mohsen Baharvand blasted Washington for supporting and nourishing terrorist groups, saying that the international community should make the US accountable. "The US government should account to the international community for providing shelter, residence, communication tools ...

FNA - Head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) Ali Akbar Salehi underlined the need for the UN nuclear watchdog not to pay attention to the information provided by foreign intelligence agencies with hostile positions towards Tehran. The (International Atomic Energy) Agency should not be a complementary instrument for the countries spy ...

Financial Tribune - Iran should initiate a plan to gradually step up its nuclear activities to raise the stakes for Europe so that it would agree to pay the price of defying Washington on the 2015 nuclear deal, a senior foreign policy expert said. Europe should be brought to a crossroads, Nasser Hadian also told the Etemad newspaper in a recent ...

Sputnik - Iran Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif criticized the EU for what he described as "extremism" in relation with Tehran. "In order tokeep the United States inthe Iran nuclear deal, European countries are suffering fromextremism and this will ultimately undermine Europe's policy," Zarif told newspaper Etemad. According tomedia ...

Ali Motahari, representing Tehran in the Islamic Consultative Assembly, said that thanks to reformist tendencies of the government, the media are subject to closures and permit revocations more than before. Ali Motahari, a principlist MP representing Tehran in the Islamic Consultative Assembly, has said that the Iranian revolution has sustained losses ...

Azarpeik, who has been critical of the state's treatment of journalists and opposition figures, was picked up by judicial authorities in Tehran ranian security forces have arrested Saba Azarpeik, a prominent journalist working for a number of reformist publications in Tehran, including Etemaad daily. Numerous sources said on Wednesday that Azarpeik ...

While Iran's reformist dailies are upbeat about the constructive tone of Tehran's latest round of talks with world powers on its nuclear programme, the country's conservative press remains suspicious of Western intentions. However, both camps think that the West should respond to Iran's expressed readiness to compromise by offering concessions of ...