Mohammad Javad Zarif
Rafael Grossi tweets that the purpose of his trip is “to find a mutually agreeable solution, compatible with Iranian law, so that the IAEA can continue essential verification activities in Iran.”
“There is nothing changed in the U.S. position,” says an administration official. “The United States wants Iran to [comply with] its JCPOA commitments, and if it does, the United States will do the same.”
“The more America procrastinates, the more it will ... appear that Mr. Biden’s administration doesn’t want to rid itself of Trump’s failed legacy,” says Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif.
During a briefing on Iran’s nuclear program in 2018, Israeli premier Benjamin Netanyahu had called Fakhrizadeh out as being involved.
The conservative camp in the Islamic Republic emphasizes that there is no real difference between Joe Biden and Donald Trump, calling Democrats a “prettier face” with the same policy.
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif to the U.N. Security Council: The United States is acting like an “outlaw bully.”
Its oil exports dropped to a record low, averaging just 70,000 barrels per day in April compared to 287,000 in March.
If the Democratic senators had the meeting, said U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, “I hope they were reinforcing America’s foreign policy, not their own.”
“The Israelis are attacking parts of Iraqi military, official military,” Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Zarif tells CBS Sunday.
Motivated primarily by its own commercial interests, France is choosing to ignore the words and actions of Iran’s IRGC, and instead blindly trust Tehran’s “moderate” leadership.
Iran’s foreign minister tells CBS he’s “not confident” war can be avoided, says movement of U.S. troops and military equipment to Saudi Arabia and the UAE is “all going the wrong direction.”
U.N. Secretary General António Guterres said on Wednesday that it’s been in touch with the United States in order to resolve any visa issues.