US Withdrawal from JCPOA

Foreign Minister Mohammed Javad Zarif stressed that the restrictive measures adopted by Washington against Tehran will strengthen the Iranian resolve to resist. Zarif stressed that Iran will…

Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi is visiting Europe to meet senior officials to press for the fulfillment of their commitments under the 2015 nuclear deal.  He met Italian officials,…

The European Union has outlined measures it has taken to counter the effect of US unilateral sanctions against Iran.

The exemptions granted to Iran’s biggest oil clients, which allow them to keep buying crude from the country, show that the US sanctions policy has failed, says Tehran’s ambassador in London.…

Deputy Secretary of the US Treasury, Sigal Mandelker, announced that SWIFT had cut-off Iranian financial institutions targeted by the US sanctions, Sputnik reported.

Europe’s effective measures to compensate for the suspension of Iranian banks’ access to the SWIFT financial messaging system will prove its determination to protect Tehran’s interests in the…

Foreign Minister Mohammed Javad Zarif has dismissed his American counterpart’s starvation threat, stressing that Iran will survive and even advance despite Washington’s sanctions.

The Central Bank of Iran will introduce new measures to help channel export earnings into the economy, the CBI governor Abdolnaser Hemmati said on Saturday in a meeting with provincial governors…

As the interbank messaging system SWIFT prepares to formally announce the names of Iranian banks that will be disconnected from its platform, it is not clear how the outside world intends to…

Turkey has been granted a waiver of around 25 % on US oil sanctions against Iran, Turkish Energy Minister Fatih Donmez said Friday, amounting to around three million tons of oil annually.…

Governor of the central bank says if Iran is disconnected from the Belgium-based financial messaging service SWIFT (the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunications), alternative…

The Tehran Chamber of Commerce, Industries, Mines and Agriculture, a main private sector representative, has issued a statement following the reimposion of US sanctions against Iran, declaring…

Tehran has lodged a complaint with the International Maritime Organization against the US over the reimposition of sanctions that target scores of Iranian ships as part of Washington’s much-…

A lawmaker said on Friday that renewed US sanctions on Tehran will bolster unity among Iranian people against foreign threats. “Iranians become more united whenever Iran faces foreign threats…

The United States has told Iraq that it will be allowed to keep importing crucial gas, energy supplies and food items from Iran after Washington reimposes sanctions on Tehran’s oil sector, three…

Senior US State Department officials working on the Iran issue are said to have convinced Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to permit Iran to remain connected to the international banking system as…

The US has agreed to let eight countries -- including Japan, India and South Korea -- keep buying Iranian oil after it reimposes sanctions on the OPEC producer on Nov. 5, a senior administration…

Starting today (Thursday) all Chinese banks will suspend their dealings with Iran in response to the second round of US sanctions against the Islamic Republic due to take effect on November 4.…

European diplomats are warning that enhanced US financial sanctions against Iran run the risk of forcing the rest of the world to create alternative banking systems that could undermine the long…

As President Donald Trump prepares to re-impose a second batch of sanctions on Iran that had been eased under the 2015 nuclear deal, conservative US lawmakers and outside advisers have become…

Governor of the Central Bank of Iran has provided some details about the payment system to be unveiled by the European Union in the coming days saying that the mechanism allows Iranian and…

The looming US sanctions against Iran’s oil industry does not mean the country will not be able to carry out projects in the key sector as domestic exploration and production (E&P) companies…

Russia underscored its uncompromising position on the illegitimacy of the United States' sanctions against Iran, vowing to minimize their impact on Moscow-Tehran economic relations. In a…

Escalating tensions between the US and Iran have not impeded a surge in soybean business that resulted from China's decision to shun American shipments as part of the nation's trade dispute.…

Global Export Credit Unions participating in a meeting of the Berne Union Credit and Investment Insurers this week backed sustained cooperation with Iran despite the US move earlier this year to…