Iran notifies JCPOA partners of suspension of some commitments

Iran has informed the five remaining signatories to the 2015 nuclear deal of its decision to suspend the implementation of some of its commitments under the multinational agreement, exactly one year after the United States unilaterally abandoned the international document.

President Rouhani says Iran will not talk with US as long as it keeps lying

President Hassan Rouhani says Washington’s claims of seeking negotiations with Iran are “mere lies” and that the United States, in fact, intends to force the Iranian nation to its knees. Contrary to what some are trying to promote, “the US does not possess the willingness for negotiations at all,” the president told a cabinet session in Tehran on Wednesday.

IRGC navy commander says Iran may close Hormuz Strait if not able to use it

The top commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC)'s Navy says the Strait of Hormuz is an international maritime passage, warning that Iran may close the strategic waterway if prevented from using it.

President Rouhani says World’s leading terrorist in no position to judge IRGC

Zarif says US waging ‘economic terrorism’ against Iran

Iran’s foreign minister says the US is waging “economic terrorism” against the Islamic Republic by employing restrictive measures that are troubling the relief efforts targeting flood-stricken people across the country.

Leader says Iran will defeat enemy in economic war, but it is not enough

Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei says the enemy is waging an “economic war" on Iran, but the country will defeat it.

FM Zarif says Iran will never allow others to decide its fate

Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has said in a Twitter post that the Iranian nation's struggle to nationalize the country's oil industry in 1951 is proof that the country will never allow others to decide its fate.

President Rouhani says Iran to take legal action against US over sanctions

President Hassan Rouhani says the government will sue US officials behind draconian sanctions on the country in Iranian courts before taking the case to international courts of justice.