The Iran nuclear deal was in near terminal condition and on life support even before President Donald Trump fired Secretary of State Rex Tillerson. Tillerson's dismissal this week may hasten its demise.
U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson expects to have tough talks during a five-nation trip of the Middle East next week, including in Turkey, where he will urge leaders to rein in an offensive in northern Syria, U.S. officials said on Friday.
Tillerson will discuss the Iran nuclear deal and curtailing "Iranian malign influence" in the Middle East with European allies and partners.
US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson softened President Donald Trump's typically harsh stance on the JCPOA, saying that Washington would remain in the 2015 nuclear deal between Tehran and world powers “for the time being”.
Repeating 'baseless and false' claims does not make up for the US strategic, big mistakes on Iran and the region in recent decades, spokesman of Iran's Foreign Ministry said in response to the latest anti-Iran claims by the US Secretary of State.
US shameful foreign policy has been dictated by petrodollars, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said on Monday reacting to US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson recent remarks about Iraqi popular forces.
U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson acknowledged on Tuesday that he and President Donald Trump disagree over the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, and said the two men discuss how to use the international agreement to advance administration policies; Reuters reported.
Iran’s top diplomat Mohammad Javad Zarif is to visit the UN headquarters in New York next week to attend the High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development and meet counterparts.
Iranian foreign ministry summoned Swiss charge d’affaires in Tehran to convey the Islamic Republic's strong protest to the US government over the interfering remarks of US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson. Foreign Ministry spokesman Bahram Qasemi said that following the uncalculated and meddling statements by the US secretary of state, Swiss charge d’affaires was summoned in the absence of the ambassador by the ministry’s director general for US affairs to voice Iran’s protest to Tillerson's anti-Iran remarks in the country’s House of Representatives.
US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has called on Iranian President Hassan Rouhani to end the country’s ballistic missile tests in what is Washington’s first reaction to his re-election.
