BRICS to admit Iran, Saudi Arabia, four others as new members
The five BRICS nations – Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa – have announced they would extend their membership strength by admitting six new countries next year.
Iran, China sign 25-year cooperation pact
Iran and China signed a 25-year “strategic cooperation pact” Saturday in the latest expansion of Beijing’s flagship trillion-dollar Belt and Road Initiative as the US rivals move closer together. Negotiations for the deal, launched five years ago, sparked controversy in Iran last year and virtually no details of its contents have been released. China is […]
Iran prosecutes French man on spying, propaganda charges
Iran has started prosecuting a French man arrested last year on espionage charges, lawyer Saeid Dehghan wrote on Twitter Monday, naming the detainee as Benjamin Briere. The man, whose detention since May 2020 in Iran has been confirmed by Paris, also faces charges of spreading “propaganda against the system” of the Islamic republic, wrote Dehghan. […]
UK urges Iran to release all dual nationals
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Wednesday told Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani to free all dual nationals, including one woman who faces further court action despite her sentence having ended. “The Prime Minister raised the case of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and other British-Iranian Dual Nationals detained in Iran and demanded their immediate release,” Johnson’s Downing Street […]
Iran refuses nuclear talks with US before sanctions lifted
Iran refused a meeting with the United States and other world powers involved in the 2015 nuclear accord before sanctions are lifted. “The US must first return to the nuclear agreement and lift its illegal sanctions on Iran … there is no need for negotiations for that,” Iran Foreign Ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh said on […]
US air strike in Syria a warning to Iran — Biden
President Joe Biden said Friday that a US air strike against an Iranian-backed militia in eastern Syria, the first since he took office, should be seen by Iran as a warning. Asked what the message was from the air strike, Biden said: “You can’t act with impunity.” “Be careful,” he added, speaking in Houston during […]
