Iran has slammed the new United States sanctions against Tehran to freeze assets amid nuclear talks. In a statement, Foreign Ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh said, new sanctions will not strengthen Washington's negotiating position in the process of reviving the 2015 nuclear agreement.

TEHRAN - Iran responded to the latest round of US sanctions against Tehran and said that the move showed that the US was running out of options. The US already maintains sweeping sanctions on Iran including on its central bank, with anyone who deals with it subject to prosecution, due to Tehran's ...

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has dismissed new US sanctions on Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei as "outrageous". In a speech broadcast live on Iranian state television, he said sanctions against Khamenei would fail because he has no assets abroad. Rouhani said Tehran's "strategic patience" should ...

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has dismissed new US sanctions on Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei as "outrageous". In a speech broadcast live on Iranian state television, he said sanctions against Khamenei would fail because he has no assets abroad. Rouhani said Tehran's "strategic patience" should ...

US President Donald Trump has said he is imposing hard-hitting new sanctions on Iran, including on the office of the country's supreme leader Ali Khamenei. Donald Trump said the additional sanctions were in response to the shooting down of a US drone and "many other things". Iranian foreign ...

WASHINGTON: New US sanctions imposed on Iran target Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and senior military leaders of the Islamic republic. President Donald Trump slapped the sanctions on Tehran for what he described as its “aggressive behavior” including the shooting down of US ...

Moscow: Moscow is intensifying efforts to wean its economy off the dollar as Washington considers tough new sanctions that could deny Russia access to foreign debt markets and cut its banks from the greenback. President Vladimir Putin has repeatedly slammed the US unit's dominance on the world's ...

WASHINGTON - The US Treasury and allies in the Gulf took aim at Iran´s support for the Taliban Tuesday with new sanctions against nine individuals from both countries. The Riyadh-based Terrorist Financing Targeting Center (TFTC) said the sanctions aimed to "expose and disrupt Taliban actors and ...

MOSCOW - The Russian rouble fell towards its lowest levels since 2016 in early trade on Monday as support from month-end tax payments faded, giving way to pressure from new U.S. sanctions against Moscow. The rouble shed 0.5 percent to 67.42 versus the dollar as of 0730 GMT, sliding towards ...

MOSCOW: Russia says the new US sanctions announced this month over a nerve agent attack in Britain would only create more tension in bilateral relations. This has been stated by Russian Foreign Ministry, which was quoted by the RIA news agency. The United States is expected on Monday to impose new ...