Tasnim Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif dismissed claims that Tehran has ceded a significant part of its territorial rights to the Caspian Sea in a recent treaty it signed with four other littoral states, saying that Tehran has not retreated from its stance on the issue. Speaking to the Persian-language news website Alef, Zarif vehemently ...

Alef, the site run by an Iranian conservative Majlis member and the government critic, tries to dialogue with the State Department Persian spokesman, Alan Eyre. While US President Barack Obama vowed on last Friday (March 31) to forge ahead with tough sanctions on Iran and Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Ali Khamenei called US,...