Iran's Zarif: US carrot-and-stick policy not effective anymore

Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says the United States’ former means of trying to bend other nations to its will is not effectual anymore due to the unreliability of the course of action.

FM Zarif to US: Iran will only respond to actions, not words

Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says Iran will take proper action whenever the United States lifts the sanctions to pave the way for its return to the 2015 nuclear deal, stressing that the Islamic Republic takes Washington’s actions, not words, as its yardstick.

FM Zarif says Biden’s US should seize chance to lift bans

Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has urged US President Joe Biden to end his predecessor’s fruitless pressure policy against Iran and begin the process of rejoining the 2015 nuclear agreement by lifting all unilateral sanctions unconditionally, warning that the “window of opportunity will not be open” for the new White House team forever.

Foreign Minister Zarif welcomes Qatar’s call for Persian Gulf states to begin talks with Iran

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has welcomed his Qatari counterpart’s call for the Persian Gulf Arab countries to hold talks with Iran, saying Tehran has long demanded neighborly cooperation towards establishing a strong Middle East.

Iran warns of ‘US military adventurism’ in Persian Gulf in letter to UN Security Council

Iran’s Permanent Mission to the United Nations (UN) in New York has warned against the United States’ “military adventurism” and recent provocative moves in the Persian Gulf region, at a time that the administration of lame duck US President Donald Trump nears its final days.

President Rouhani says fight against Israeli occupation, terrorism common goal of Iran, Syria:

President Hassan Rouhani has praised relations between Iran and Syria as strategic and fraternal, stressing that both Muslim nations share the common goal of countering the Israeli occupation and terrorism. During a meeting with the visiting Syrian Foreign Minister Faisal Mekdad in Tehran on Tuesday, Rouhani stated that Iran will resolutely and decisively stand by Syrian people and government as a strategic ally until their final victory.

Foreign Ministry spokesman says US must stop economic war against Iran, return to path of law

FM Zarif advises US president-elect to abandon Trump’s 'disastrous lawless bullying'

ran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has reacted to the result of the latest presidential vote in the United States and the election of Joe Biden as the 46th US president, advising the new administration to give up its predecessor’s “disastrous lawless bullying.”