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Iranian tank crews taking part in the back to back military exercises featuring the Army and Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps
THE speaker of the Iranian Parliament is on his first official foreign visit to Moscow with the goal of further cementing the two countries’ strategic relations.
Speaking to reporters before departure on Sunday, Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf said that Leader of the Islamic Revolution, Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, has always emphasised the importance of strategic ties with Russia, which is why he is making this visit at the invitation of Chairman of the State Duma (Russian parliament) Vyacheslav Viktorovich Volodin.
By Kim Seung-yeon SEOUL, Feb. 3 (Yonhap) South Korea is finalizing talks with the United States about using some of Iran s money frozen in Seoul under U.S. sanctions to pay Tehran s U.N. dues in arrears, a foreign ministry official said Wednesday. Such progress in the talks for solutions to unblock the Iranian assets in South Korea appears to have affected Tehran s decision to release most of the crew members of a seized South Korean oil tanker, according to the official. On Tuesday, Tehran said its judiciary gave permission to free the sailors, except for the captain, from the MT Hankuk Chemi that has been seized by the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps since Jan. 4 over allegedly polluting the ocean. Twenty sailors were aboard the ship, including five South Koreans.
2021-02-03 12:35:14 GMT2021-02-03 20:35:14(Beijing Time) Xinhua English
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TEHRAN/WASHINGTON, Feb. 3 (Xinhua) The United States and Iran have recently made several statements on the former s willingness to rejoin the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), also known as the Iran nuclear deal, with both sides listing demands and creating challenges for any final agreement.
Kazem Gharibabadi, ambassador and permanent representative of Iran to the United Nations, tweeted on Tuesday that Iran has installed new and more advanced centrifuges at its two main nuclear sites, adding that there s more to come.
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said last Wednesday that the United States will only return to the Iran nuclear deal once Tehran meets its commitments, warning of a long road ahead. He also rejected earlier pressure from Iran for Washington to act first.
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