Tag: Hassan Rouhani

Outgoing Iranian President Hassan Rouhani says that the 2018 Mossad seizure of nuclear documents from Tehran caused the former U.S. president to withdraw from the JCPOA.

Meanwhile, an attempted act of sabotage on a facility of the department of Iran Atomic Energy Organization (AEOI) has been foiled.

On July 2, 2020, around 2 AM, there were explosions and a major fire in the centrifuge production plant at the nuclear enrichment facility in Natanz.

"The odds any progress to revive the deal before Iran holds a presidential election in June have dwindled."

Tehran Times suggested that "any procrastination on part of the United States under President Joe Biden will most likely spell the end of the nuclear deal."

PM Netanyahu insisted that "Israel will not allow Iran to manufacture nuclear weapons."

On Wednesday, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said his administration would make use of every opportunity to lift the US sanctions against Iran.

Rouhani rejected the offer made last week by US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to help Iran with the outbreak.

Moscow, Tehran and Ankara are the three guarantor states at the Astana talks on Syria.

Rouhani: "“We are enriching more uranium than before the deal was reached."

One of the pilots, Alexei Naumkin, was reportedly Jewish.

Demonstrations and protests raged simultaneously in 75 cities.

At present, Iran says it possesses some 150 billion barrels of proven crude oil reserves.

Johnson said he plans to meet Iran's president Hassan Rouhani in New York.

Iran's GDP contracted by 3.9% in 2018, and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) expects the Iranian economy to shrink by 6% in 2019.

Tehran has threatened to reduce its nuclear commitments further by Sept. 6, which would include enriching uranium to 20%, and restarting the centrifuges that purify uranium to weapons' grade.

Rouhani was secretary of the Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) for 16 years, and he boasted how he was using talks with Western powers to buy time to advance Iran's nuclear program.

Reportedly, the RQ-4 Global Hawk made by Northrop Grumman Corp cost more than the new F-35 stealth fighters.

On Saturday, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said his country cannot remain unilaterally committed to the nuclear deal.

Brent oil crude jumped 4.5% to trade at $61.60 a barrel in Dubai Thursday morning in reaction to the attacks.

Pompeo boarded a plane in Iraq and headed straight back to Washington amid the rising tensions with Tehran.

“We currently have 1,044 centrifuges in [the Fordo nuclear facility], and if the establishment wants, we will restart 20% uranium enrichment in Fordo.”

Zarif announced his resignation on his personal Instagram account late Monday.

No reason or explanation was given for the resignation.

President Hassan Rouhani said the huge turnout in rallies means the revolution would “continue its path like the past 40 years.”

In 2015, Iran's President Hassan Rouhani said that Iran regards Italy as the most important country for trade and economic cooperation.

Pompeo: "As we have been warning for some time, Iran’s missile testing and missile proliferation is growing."

Greenblatt: "Rouhani continues to spread the Iranian regime’s hateful and destructive ideology instead of improving Iranian lives."

President Hassan Rouhani said Israel was a "cancerous tumor" established in the Middle East by Western countries.

Iran faces a potentially crushing loss of oil exports when US sanctions return in November.