US says Iran's top diplomat, Javad Zarif, can visit Iranian envoy in US hospital if Tehran frees US national; Zarif is pictured September 2, 2019 (AFP Photo/Kirill KUDRYAVTSEV)/ Washington (AFP) - The State Department said Saturday that it would only allow Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad ...
Venezuela’s Vice President Delcy Rodríguez addresses the 74th session of the United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters Friday, Sept. 27, 2019. (Kevin Hagen/Associated Press)/ UNITED NATIONS — The Latest on the U.N. General Assembly’s annual gathering of world leaders (all times ...
President Hassan Rouhani of Iran said Friday that President Trump had offered to lift sanctions in order to meet. Mr. Trump denied that account. Brittainy Newman/The New York Times; Doug Mills/The New York Times/ UNITED NATIONS — President Hassan Rouhani of Iran said Friday that President Trump ...
The restriction is one of many the U.S. State Department has imposed in an effort for the Trump administration to pressure Iran to release an American prisoner; Trey Yingst has more details./ Foreign Minister Javad Zarif after he appeared to complain about the prohibiting Zarif from visiting a ...
The U.S. said Friday that Iran’s foreign minister can visit the country’s ailing U.N. ambassador in a New York hospital -- if his country agrees to release an American prisoner in exchange./ Mohammad Javad Zarif is in New York for the annual U.N. gathering of world leaders, but the Trump ...
(Corrects to show U.S. offer was sent to Europeans, no Iranian meeting with U.S. officials took place) GENEVA, Sept 27 (Reuters) - The United States sent a message to European leaders that it was willing to lift all sanctions on Iran, according to Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, who said he ...
GENEVA, Sept 27 (Reuters) - The United States offered to remove all sanctions on Iran in exchange for talks, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said on Friday upon returning to Tehran from the United Nations General Assembly in New York, according to his official website. "The German chancellor, ...
The United States sent a message to European leaders that it was willing to lift all sanctions on Iran, according to Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, who said he had rejected talks with Washington while punitive U.S. sanctions remained in place./ FILE PHOTO: Iranian President Hassan Rouhani ...
54AM [Updated: Sun Sep 29, 2019 10:37AM ]/ The US’ rejection of a request by Iranian foreign minister to visit Tehran’s ambassador to the UN who is in hospital in New York is “the outcome of” Israel lobby’s control of US foreign policy, says an American writer and former professor. Mohammad ...
34AM [Updated: Sat Sep 28, 2019 11:50AM ]/ Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif sits in the General Assembly Hall to listen to an address by Iranian president Hassan Rouhani at the 74th session of the United Nations General Assembly at UN headquarters in New York, September 25, 2019. ...
17AM [Updated: Sat Sep 28, 2019 11:23AM ]/ This file photo shows Iran’s Ambassador to the United Nations Majid Takht-e Ravanchi. (Photo by AFP)/ The United States has rejected a request by Iranian FM Mohammad Javad Zarif to visit Iran's United Nations ambassador in a New York hospital. The US ...
Casualties from the incident were brought to Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis/ Twenty people trying to get food have been killed "amid a chaotic and dangerous surge" at an aid distribution centre in southern Gaza, the US- and Israel-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) says. Nineteen were ...
Hezbollah leader Sheikh Naim Qassem addressed supporters in Beirut on 6 July/ At least 12 people have been killed in Israeli air strikes in Lebanon's eastern Bekaa Valley, a regional governor says. Seven Syrians, including a family of five, and three Lebanese were killed when the Wadi Faara area ...
Syria's defence minister announced a ceasefire as government forces entered Suweida city on Tuesday/ Israel says it has bombed Syrian government forces around Suweida, as they entered the predominantly Druze city following two days of deadly sectarian clashes. About 100 people have reportedly ...
Ten people were killed as they gathered near a water distribution point in Nuseirat refugee camp/ Mahmoud Abdul Rahman Ahmed says his son, Abdullah, was "searching for a sip of water" when he took the family's jerrycans on Sunday morning and headed as usual to one of the water distribution ...
A BBC documentary about Gaza breached editorial guidelines on accuracy by failing to disclose the narrator was the son of a Hamas official, the corporation's review has found. BBC director general Tim Davie commissioned the review into Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone, after it was in February ...
Syria's interior ministry said security forces were deployed to try to restore calm/ At least 30 people have been killed in armed clashes between Sunni Bedouin tribal fighters and Druze militias in southern Syria, the country's interior ministry says. The violence erupted in the predominantly ...
Last week, President Pezeshkian accused Israel of trying to kill him - a claim denied by Israel/ Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian was reportedly slightly injured during one of Israel's attacks on Iran last month. Iran's state Fars news agency, close to the revolutionary guard, says that on 16 ...
Relatives mourn Palestinian child Saraj Ibrahim. In other photos and video, the man in grey is seen carrying the child's body after a strike hit a water distribution point/ Ten people, including six children, have been killed in an Israeli air strike while waiting to fill water containers in ...
Palestinians seeking food and other supplies near an aid distribution site in May/ The Nasser hospital in southern Gaza has said 24 people have been killed near an aid distribution site. Palestinians who were present at the site said Israeli troops opened fire as people were trying to access ...
Palestinians look on as a fire burns on a hilltop seized by Israeli settlers near Sinjil on 4 July/ Two Palestinians have been killed in an attack by Israeli settlers on a town in the north of the occupied West Bank, according to the Palestinian health ministry. Sayfollah Musallet, a 20-year-old ...