PARIS/DUBAI (Reuters) - France has proposed offering Iran about $15 billion in credit lines until year-end if Tehran comes fully back into compliance with its 2015 nuclear deal, a move that hinges on Washington not blocking it, Western and Iranian sources said./ FILE PHOTO: French President ...
Washington issued strong protests last month when authorities in the British overseas territory of Gibraltar released an Iranian supertanker they had detained for six weeks on suspicion of sanctions-busting (AFP Photo/JORGE GUERRERO)/ Tehran (AFP) - Iran said Wednesday it will resume full ...
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani says he will not meet with the U.S. until all sanctions imposed on Tehran are lifted; Trey Yingst reports from Jerusalem./ continues to up the ante on its nuclear program, reportedly beyond the limitations outlined in the contentious 2015 , Iranian President ...
PARIS/DUBAI (Reuters) - France has proposed offering Iran about $15 billion in credit lines until year-end if Tehran comes fully back into compliance with its 2015 nuclear deal, a move that hinges on Washington not blocking it, Western and Iranian sources said. French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves ...
These are external links and will open in a new window/ Hassan Rouhani has said he is ready for dialogue if the US first lifts its sanctions Iran's president has ruled out ever holding bilateral talks with the US. "There have been a lot of offers for talks but our answer will always be ...
Iranian government spokesman Ali Rabiei (AFP Photo/str)/ Paris (France) (AFP) - Iran said Monday its views have been converging with those of France on ways to save a nuclear deal at risk of unravelling since the US withdrew last year. Government spokesman Ali Rabiei also suggested President ...
Iranian government spokesman Ali Rabiei (AFP Photo/str)/ Tehran (AFP) - Iran said Monday its views have been converging with those of France on ways to save a nuclear deal at risk of unravelling since the US withdrew last year. Government spokesman Ali Rabiei also suggested President Hassan ...
20AM [Updated: Wed Sep 4, 2019 07:25AM ]/ A senior Iranian official says Tehran will return into full compliance with a 2015 multinational nuclear deal only if it receives $15 billion in a France-proposed credit lines for oil sales over four months otherwise the Islamic Republic will continue ...
43PM [Updated: Tue Sep 3, 2019 10:43PM ]/ Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif reacts during a news conference with his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov (not pictured) after their meeting in Moscow, Russia, on September 2, 2019. (Photo by Reuters)/ Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad ...
20PM [Updated: Tue Sep 3, 2019 03:34PM ]/ France says efforts aimed at saving a 2015 multilateral nuclear deal on the Iranian nuclear program hinges on the United States’ provision of waivers from the sanctions it has unilaterally and illegally re-imposed on Tehran. “That all supposes of course ...
Iranian deputy foreign minister Abbas Araqchi attends a meeting on the 2015 nuclear deal in the Austrian capital, Vienna, on June 28, 2019. (Photo by AFP)/ Iranian and French experts have held intensive talks aimed at salvaging an international nuclear deal, which has been at risk of unraveling ...
05AM [Updated: Tue Sep 3, 2019 05:05AM ]/ Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif was in the Russian capital while his deputy foreign minister Abbas Araqchi was in Paris in a last-minute push to preserve the 2015 nuclear agreement amid US sanctions and the Europeans’ failure to fulfill ...
President Macron announces that France formally recognises state of Palestine/ France has formally recognised a Palestinian state, becoming the latest in a wave of countries to take the step. Speaking at the UN in New York, President Emmanuel Macron said "the time for peace has come" and that ...
Starmer says UK recognises Palestinian state/ Sir Keir Starmer has announced the UK's recognition of a Palestinian state, in what represents a significant change in government policy. In a video statement on X, the prime minister said: "In the face of the growing horror in the Middle East we are ...
Abdel Aziz Majarmeh is grieving his 13-year-old son/ Abdel Aziz Majarmeh was standing next to his 13-year-old son, Islam, as he was shot dead by Israeli forces this month at the entrance to Jenin refugee camp, in the occupied West Bank. "My son fell to the ground, and then I heard the sound of a ...
Demonstrations have been held in Portugal demanding a ceasefire in Gaza/ Portugal says it will recognise a Palestinian state on Sunday, making it the latest Western nation preparing to shift policy as the war in the Gaza Strip shows no sign of stopping. The foreign ministry made the announcement ...
Shurafi says "even an animal" could not survive in the so-called humanitarian zone/ As Israel continues its operation to fully occupy Gaza City, displaced Palestinians in the Israeli-designated "humanitarian zone" in southern Gaza say conditions are worsening as the areas fills up with ever more ...
The US says the resolution does not go far enough in condemning Hamas/ The US has for the sixth time vetoed a draft resolution at the United Nations Security Council that would have demanded an immediate and permanent ceasefire in Gaza and the release of hostages. US deputy Middle East envoy ...
Two Israeli military personnel have been shot dead near a border crossing between the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Jordan, the Israeli military and medics say. The two men were identified as reservist Lieutenant Colonel Yitzhak Harosh, 68, and Sergeant Oran Hershko, 20. The Israeli military ...
Israeli aircraft carried out strikes along Gaza City's Mediterranean coast on Thursday/ The situation in Gaza City is "nothing short of cataclysmic", a UN official has told the BBC, as Israeli tanks and troops continue to advance on the third day of a ground offensive. Olga Cherevko, a ...
Smotrich said the "demolition phase" of Gaza had been done/ Israel's far-right finance minister Bezalel Smotrich has said the Gaza Strip could be a "real estate bonanza" and that he is in talks with the US about dividing up the territory after the war - an idea previously condemned ...
UN estimates suggest at least 650,000 people remain in Gaza City as Israel ramps up its offensive/ Thousands of Palestinians are continuing to flee Gaza City, as Israel's major ground offensive aimed at occupying the area enters a second day. Israel says its aim is to free hostages held by Hamas ...