News Archive - 4 December 2020

Stating that he will work to develop bilateral relations between Iran and Slovakia during his tenure, Bagherpour Ardakani explained common views of the two countries in achieving a stable international environment and described it as a platform for deepening and expanding bilateral relations. For her part, Čaputová congratulated Ali BaqerpourArdakani on his...

The festival will be running totally online from December 15 to 22. “The delay will help the organizers have a better chance to arrange the programs, and will give the filmmakers more time to submit their works,” the director of the festival, Mohammad Hamidi-Moqaddam, said in an online press conference...

Iran has told the UN nuclear watchdog it plans to install three more cascades, or clusters, of advanced IR-2m centrifuges at its underground uranium enrichment plant at Natanz, the agency told member states on Friday in a report obtained by Reuters. As Reuters claimed the Agency said that Iran informed the Agency...

In a Friday tweet, Kazem Gharibabadi wrote, "@iaeaorg confidential report, based on Iran's confidential letter, appeared in Media immediately even before the BoG Members could track it down." "Agency is not merely responsible to update the development but shall ensure confidentiality of safeguards information," he added. "If neither the Agency...

In a tweet on Friday, Mohammad Javad Zarif wrote, "Here's what @HeikoMaas & E3 must do before speaking abt what Iran should do: Stop despicable #CovidApartheid, Honor your obligations under UNSCR2231 & stop violating JCPOA, End YOUR malign behavior in OUR region: $100B arms sales to Persian Gulf & blind support for...

The blast occurred at around 10 a.m. local time (9 a.m. GMT) at a construction site near the broadcaster's headquarters, Sputnik reported. Several cars belonging to the broadcaster have been damaged by the explosion. Emergency services and police have arrived at the site of the incident. The cause...

In a telephone conversation with the President of Turkey on Thursday, Hassan Rouhani expressed his gratitude for Turkey's sympathy with the Iranian people and also the condemnation of this assassination by Ankara, saying, "It is completely clear to us who did the assassination with the method used in it."...

 Kazem Gharibabadi sent a letter to International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director-General Rafael Mariano Grossi, saying, "This letter is about the cowardly terrorist act and brutal assassination of Dr. Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, a prominent physicist scientist of the Islamic Republic of Iran, which took place on November 27, 2020, in Absard,...

In a letter to the World Health Organization (WTO) Managing-Director Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Friday, Esmaeil Baghaei Hamaneh stressed the need for the international community to react decisively to the killing of the elite. Outlining the services the martyred scientist rendered to health and medical sectors in Iran, including the production of the...

Zangeneh made the remark after the 12th OPEC and non-OPEC Ministerial Meeting held on Thursday, adding OPEC+ meetings need to be held monthly to decide on the curbs for other months. However, if further easing was needed, it should not be more than 500,000 barrels per day, he said, emphasizing...

In separate letters to the UN Secretary-General and chief of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (UNHCHR), Iranian Judiciary’s High Council for Human Rights Ali Bagheri-Kani said that inaction against this criminal act will only give rise to speculations about efforts to legitimize the assassination, as well as extremism and terrorism and will also...

"Well, whoever did it certainly didn’t do it to facilitate dialogue," said Josep Borrell answering to the question about the impact of the assassination of a high-level scientist on US-Iran talks. "Certainly there are people who have an interest in this agreement not surviving, many people have an interest in this agreement...

Health Ministry Spokesperson Sima Lari made the announcement on Friday, saying that 13,341 new cases have been confirmed in the past 24 hours, putting the country’s total infections at 1,016,835. Of the newly detected cases, 1,996 patients have been hospitalized, she added, saying that 5,824 patients are in critical condition.  The respiratory illness...

Speaking in an interview with the website of the Strategic Council on Foreign Relations regarding the recent Karabakh agreement, former Iranian ambassador to the Republic of Azerbaijan Mohsen Pakaein said, "The agreement reached in Russia between the Republic of Azerbaijan and Armenia, especially some of the provisions that have been...

Germany is looking for an alternative, broader nuclear accord with Iran in place of the existing agreement which is "no longer enough", German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas said Friday. His remarks came while Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said that the country will not negotiate over an already-negotiated agreement. Addressing...

Speaking at the online session of the High-level Special Session of the United Nations General Assembly, Response to COVID-19 Pandemic, held in New York 3-4 December 2020, Namaki said, "Since the beginning of the outbreak in Iran, according to the 'Whole of Government, Whole of Society' approach, the national committee to manage...