Iran says US sanctions are deliberately targeting innocent civilians and tantamount to economic terrorism. Talking to United Nations in New York City, foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said Iran needed ballistic missiles to protect itself from US-backed foreign invaders. He said the US is ...

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has said that Iran wants to resolve the ongoing crisis involving the UK seizure of an Iranian tanker. In a statement, he said Britain should release the Grace 1 oil tanker, which was seized last week by British Royal Marines off the coast of the British ...

Iran says it will never succumb to U.S. pressure and if Washington wants talks with Tehran it should show respect. In a speech broadcast live on state TV, Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said Trump has called for talks with Iran’s clerical rulers with no preconditions which Tehran has ...

Iran has dismissed US President Donald Trump's claim that a war between their countries would be short-lived, as Washington sought NATO's help to build an anti-Tehran coalition. In a tweets, Foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said the reimposed and tightened US sanctions are not an alternative ...

TEHRAN: Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on Thursday warned that US President Donald Trump was mistaken in thinking a war between their countries would not last long. “Short war’ with Iran is an illusion,” Zarif tweeted a day after Trump said he does not want a ...

GENEVA: Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif tweeted a map on Saturday with detailed coordinates which he said show a US drone shot down by Iran on Thursday was within the Islamic Republic’s territorial waters. The map also showed two yellow squares on the flight path of the drone ...

DUBAI: Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said on Twitter on Thursday that the United States is lying over its drone being hit by Iran in international waters, saying Tehran will take the matter to the United Nations. “The US wages #EconomicTerrorism on Iran, has conducted covert ...

Iran has rejected the allegations made by the United States that Tehran was behind reported attacks on tankers near the Strait of Hormuz. Iranian Foreign Minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif said US immediately jumped to make allegations against Iran without a shred of factual or circumstantial ...

DUBAI: Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said Iran is not seeking nuclear weapons, which its supreme leader had banned in an edict, adding on Twitter that US policies were hurting the Iranian people and causing regional tensions. “Ayatollah (Ali) @khamenei_ir long ago said we’re not ...

TEHRAN: Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif is set to visit China on Friday for talks on “regional and international issues”, state news agency IRNA reported. Coming amid soaring tensions between Washington and Tehran, the visit would be an opportunity to discuss the 2015 ...