Germany’s foreign ministry told Iran International that the European Union’s reimposed sanctions on Iran include financial restrictions but still allow limited personal money transfers.
Iran said on Tuesday it had not received any formal conditions from the United States for negotiations, after a US newspaper report said Washington had set four requirements.
Iran dismissed remarks by European Union and Gulf Cooperation Council officials who linked Tehran to regional instability and pressed it to act as a responsible power.
The European Union aims to work with regional partners to encourage Iran to act as a responsible power in the Middle East, EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said on Sunday, as the bloc is reimposing UN and EU sanctions.
Iran's foreign ministry on Monday branded the United States a "law-breaking" country, rejecting any prospect of talks with Washington after US President Donald Trump warned he would again bomb Iran if it resumes nuclear activities.
US President Donald Trump warned that Washington would bomb Iran again if it restarts its nuclear program, speaking on Sunday at a ceremony marking the 250th anniversary of the US Navy at Naval Station Norfolk in Virginia.
Military strikes on Iran’s nuclear sites would have only short-term effects and fail to destroy its capabilities, the UN atomic watchdog chief said, urging diplomacy as the sole path to a lasting solution to concerns over Tehran’s disputed nuclear program.
Former Iranian diplomat Hamid Baeidinejad said Iran’s nuclear issue will remain a defining challenge for decades, arguing that uranium enrichment is a permanent feature of the country’s national and diplomatic landscape.
Western countries rejected renewed negotiations with Tehran because of what Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi described as excessive demands on Sunday.
Australia and New Zealand said they will implement revived United Nations sanctions on Iran, officials told Iran International, backing a decision by France, Germany and Britain to trigger the snapback mechanism over Tehran’s nuclear program.
International sanctions renewed on Tehran over the weekend are already making life harder for ordinary Iranians and may signal an impasse that could lead to renewed war, experts told Iran International’s podcast Eye for Iran.
Germany wants a negotiated solution to limit Iran’s nuclear program after the reimposition of United Nations sanctions, Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul said, according to Funke media group.
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi warned that international law was at risk of being undermined by the United States, he wrote in letters to his counterparts in Sri Lanka and the Maldives, Iran’s ambassador in Colombo said on Friday.
Threats by Iranian hardliners to leave the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) after a June war are likely headed nowhere because of Tehran's keenness not to irritate Russia and China, Middle East expert Kenneth Pollack told Iran International.
Washington is seeking stiff concessions from Iran for any peace deal, the Washington Post reported on Thursday citing a US official, including curbs to its missile program and support for armed allies in the region.
Iran is adopting a policy of “strategic patience” in response to mounting Western pressure, the government's news agency IRNA said on Thursday, after Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi returned from talks in New York.
Turkey has frozen the assets of dozens of individuals and entities tied to Iran’s uranium enrichment and nuclear activities, moving in lockstep with the latest UN sanctions against Tehran.
The G7 grouping of wealthy democracies plus the European Union on Wednesday blamed Iran for newly-imposed international sanctions and urged Tehran to resume talks with Washington and allow inspections of its nuclear sites.
The US Treasury on Wednesday imposed sanctions on 38 individuals and companies from Iran and China it accused of advancing Iran’s military procurement including surface-to-air missiles and US-manufactured helicopter parts.
The European Union on Monday reimposed sweeping sanctions on Iran’s nuclear and ballistic programs after the return of United Nations restrictions under the snapback mechanism, reinstating bans on trade, finance, transport and energy first lifted in 2015.
The reimposition of UN sanctions on Iran, atop the US sanctions President Masoud Pezeshkian had pledged to lift during his election campaign, has disillusioned many of his moderate supporters and prompted hardliners to call for his resignation.
Iran’s clerical leaders are facing one of their deepest crises since the 1979 Islamic Revolution, caught between a worsening economic squeeze and renewed international pressure after the United Nations reimposed sanctions, Reuters reported.