Iran

12 Sep 2021; MEMO: Iran is to allow the UN nuclear watchdog to service monitoring cameras at Iranian nuclear sites after talks on Sunday with IAEA head Rafael Grossi, according to the head of Iran's atomic energy body and a joint statement, reported on by Reuters.

TEHRAN, Sept 10 (NNN-IRNA) – Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC), launched artillery and drone strikes on terrorist bases in the northern Iraqi city of Erbil, semi-official daily, Hamshahri, reported yesterday.

The attack was conducted on Wednesday by the IRGC Air Force’s missile and drone units. Dozens of militants were killed or injured in the operation, according to an IRGC communique, quoted by Hamshahri.

The communique points to clashes committed by terrorist groups in recent months, in border areas, as the reason for the attack.

07 Sep 2021; MEMO: Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh said yesterday that the window for dialogue to revive the 2015 nuclear agreement will not remain open forever.

Khatibzadeh added that Tehran will participate in the talks and urged the US administration to come to Vienna with a practical and realistic programme, and to fully implement its commitments according to the nuclear agreement which will help revive the agreement.

TEHRAN, Sept. 6 (Xinhua) -- Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman said on Monday that the U.S. administration must know the continuation of former President Donald Trump's mentality would only result in "maximum failure."

Addressing a weekly press conference, Saeed Khatibzadeh noted the United States should come to Vienna with a real agenda for continuing the talks over the revival of the 2015 nuclear deal, commonly known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), and completely fulfill its commitments under it.

TEHRAN, September 5. /TASS/: The Taliban (outlawed in Russia) are interested in establishing relations with Russia, Iran and Pakistan, Mohammad Akbar Agha, a formed Taliban field commander and now the leader of Afghanistan’s High Council of Salvation, told TASS on Sunday.

"We should establish broad relations with Moscow, since it is in the interests of both the Taliban and Russia," he said. "Iran and Pakistan are also the countries we want to establish relations with. They need us and we need them."

TEHRAN, Sept. 5 (Xinhua) -- Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf said on Sunday that Iran will support the people of Afghanistan from "possible attempts of foreign dominating powers to create insecurity and instability."

"Whatever the Afghan people want is what Iran wants, and we are hopeful and sensitive regarding the future of our dear neighbor," he said in a speech in the chamber, official parliamentary news agency ICANA reported.

05 Sep 2021; MEMO: Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi said on Saturday Iran was ready to hold talks with world powers to revive its 2015 nuclear accord but not under Western "pressure", adding Tehran was seeking negotiations leading to a lifting of US sanctions, reports Reuters.

TEHRAN, Sept. 4 (Xinhua) -- The spokesman for Iran's Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Saturday condemned recent U.S. sanctions on four Iranian citizens for what he called "fictitious" charges.

On Friday, the U.S. Treasury Department announced it would sanction four Iranian citizens for an alleged failed plot aimed at kidnapping a U.S.-Iranian New York-based journalist.

"Unfortunately, incumbent U.S. officials are following the failed policy of the previous administration," Saeed Khatibzadeh, the Iranian spokesman, said according to the ministry's website.

TEHRAN, September 3. /TASS/: The Taliban (outlawed in Russia) and resistance forces based in Afghanistan’s northern Panjshir province need to resolve issues through dialogue, former Afghan President Hamid Karzai wrote on Twitter on Friday.

"I hope that the parties will resolve the current issue through dialogue so that our long-suffering people can enjoy peace and be happy," the tweet reads. Karzai added that war was not a solution because it only brought suffering to the country.

TEHRAN, Aug. 31 (Xinhua) -- Iran's spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said Tuesday that two decades of U.S. "occupation" has only brought "death and destruction to Afghanistan."

It is a historic opportunity now for Afghan leaders to end the plight of their people by ending violence and forming an inclusive government, Saeed Khatibzadeh tweeted.

He stressed that "Iran stands by the brotherly nation of Afghanistan."