United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, President of UN General Assembly Abdulla Shahid, and Head of the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) Collen Vixen Kelapile have congratulated the advent of Persian New Year (Nowruz). Guterres emphasized in his Twitter message that Nowruz can help people build a world full of peace,...

Reuters - U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will likely travel to New York on Thursday to seek a return of all U.N. sanctions on Iran and meet with U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, diplomats and a U.N. official said. To trigger a return of the sanctions, the United States will submit a complaint to the 15-member U.N. Security Council about ...

MNA A group of UN experts has once agian called for unilateral US sanctions to be lifted on countries including Iran, Sudan, Syria, Yemen, Venezuela, and Cuba. People are not receiving life-saving treatments or coronavirus protection in Iran, Sudan, Syria, or Yemen amid sanctions overreach, experts said in a statement on Friday, according to the ...

Tasnim Irans Ambassador to the United Nations Majid Takht-Ravanchi called on the United Nations to shoulder its responsibilities and prevent the US from funding and supporting a US-based anti-Iran group named Tondar. In a letter to UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres on Saturday, Takht-Ravanchi wrote, The Islamic Republic of Iran expects ...

Tasnim Irans ambassador to the United Nations condemned the US sanctions against the Iranian people as an act of economic terrorism, saying Washingtons maximum pressure policy is designed to deliberately and indiscriminately target innocent civilians. In an address to the Virtual Counter-Terrorism Week under the theme of Strategic and Practical ...

MNA Russia's Permanent Representative to International Organizations in Vienna Mikhail Ulyanov reacted to Bolton's remarks regarding the assassination of Lt. Gen. Soleimani. In a tweet on Wednesday, Ulyanov wrote, Killing a foreign official on the territory of a third country corresponds to US Constitution? His tweet came after Bolton reacted ...

Tasnim Irans ambassador to the United Nations called on the UN to help set up a fact-finding committee to shed light on the fate of four Iranian diplomats abducted in Lebanon some 40 years ago. In a letter to UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres on Monday, Majid Takht Ravanchi said the Islamic Republic believes the four diplomats were handed over ...

MNA Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Wednesday that the recent report by the UN Secretary-General lacks convincing evidence. "We could speak about a lack of impartiality and a complete lack of facts that would support accusations against Iran," Tass quoted her as saying. No convincing evidence of Iranian violations has ...

Tasnim Irans ambassador to the United Nations strongly condemned a recent report by the UN claiming that missiles used to attack Saudi Arabia have been of Iranian origin, saying it has been made under political pressure from the US. Iran rejects allegations in the UN Secretariat report: - Iranian origin of arms is a fallacy. - UN Secretariat ...

Reuters - Iran on Friday rejected a United Nations report that said cruise missiles used in attacks on oil facilities and an airport in Saudi Arabia last year were of Iranian origin, saying it had been drawn up under U.S. and Saudi influence. In the report, seen by Reuters on Thursday, U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres also told the Security ...

Tasnim Irans ambassador to the United Nations said the US governments unilateral policies and addiction to inhumane sanctions against other nations have undermined the credibility of the UN and the rule of law. The US has endangered multilateralism across the world through its contemptuous treatment of international organizations and the international ...

IRNA The United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres called on the affiliated organizations and member states to support Iran's efforts in countering coronavirus outbreak. Spokesperson for the Secretary-General Stephane Dujarric made the remarks on Thursday in response to Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif's letter to Guterres. "We ...

MNA Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif expressed his deep condolences on the death of former UN Secretary General Javier Prez de Cullar. In a tweet on Thu., Zarif wrote, saddened to hear the passing of Javier Prez de Cullar, UN Secretary General from 1982 to 91. As a young diplomat, I came to appreciate his skill----he oversaw the end ...

Iran Review | Julia Masterson and Samuel M. Hickey: Early in January, the European members of the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran made a risky move by triggering the deals dispute resolution mechanism. Though it was a desperate attempt to save the agreement, it could, if not managed carefully, result in the reimposition of United Nations Security Council ...

Euronews | Bandy X. Lee and Mark Bruzonsky: Its an historic mistake - potentially catastrophic - to leave the fate of the Koreas, as well as of Iran and the Middle East - indeed international peace itself - in the hands of an individual who has demonstrated seriously erratic political and psychological behaviour. Our world has rarely been in so precarious ...

The Guardian | Patrick Wintour: Special envoy calls for emergency meeting of security council as violence flares The sudden surge in violence in Yemen could scupper fragile moves towards a peace settlement, the UNs special envoy for the country has said. We have to get the genie back in the bottle, said Martin Griffiths. Whoever started this ...

TASS - The United Nations calls on all parties to the Iran nuclear deal to spare no effort to keep it in place, Stephane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the UN Secretary-General, said on Tuesday commenting on Germanys, Frances and the United Kingdoms decision to trigger the deals dispute resolution mechanism. "We're, obviously, aware of what happened ...

Tasnim Irans Ambassador to the United Nations Majid Takht Ravanchi highlighted Middle Eastern nations dissatisfaction with the US military presence and said the American troops have to leave the region. Speaking to the Arabic-language Al Jazeera, Takht Ravanchi said US President Donald Trump was ill-advised and took an adventurous decision about ...

Press TV - The nuclear deal signed between Iran and major world powers in 2015 officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) was imposed only on Iran and not on any other countries across the world and it would be hypocrisy for the United Nations (UN) if the international body complained about Tehrans scale-back measures taken ...

Press TV - The UN Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs Rosemary DiCarlo has reiterated earlier remarks by the UN General Secretarythat the body cannot verify US claims blaming Iran for attacks on Saudi Arabia's Aramco oil facilities. DiCarlo made remarks during a UN Security Council briefing on the eighth report of the Secretary General ...