Iran’s envoy to the IAEA says Iran will continue its cooperation with the agency but stressed Tehran will not compromise on its nuclear rights. Iran’s interaction with the International Atomic Energy Agency is based on principles according to which we will not compromise on our nuclear rights as stipulated in the agency’s statute and Nuclear [...]

As the UN Security Council gets ready to vote on a US-sponsored resolution for new anti-Iran sanctions, Tehran’s IAEA ambassador warns about the consequences of the new punitive measures. Speaking to reporters on Tuesday, Iran’s Ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Ali Asghar Soltanieh said the imposition of new sanctions against Iran would [...]

118 member states of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM), have once again voiced support for Iran’s right to the peaceful use of nuclear energy. NAM has sent a letter to the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, underscoring its support for Iran’s nuclear energy program. The organization said nations, including Iran, have an inalienable right [...]

The 32nd meeting of the foreign ministers of the Group of 15 has kicked off at the Iranian Foreign Ministry in the capital, Tehran. In his opening speech, Iranian Foreign Minster Manouchehr Mottaki stressed the importance of stepping up cooperation between G15 members in order to establish a new approach in the world that is [...]

Senior Iranian cleric Hojjatoleslam Kazem Seddiqi says hosting the 2010 Group of 15 summit indicates the Islamic Republic’s prowess in diplomacy. “Holding this summit with the participation of at least eight presidents as well as the high-ranking officials from the member states … shows the authority of Iran and the Islamic establishment,” Borna News Agency [...]

Iran says will host the 2012 Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) summit, which will bring together the heads 118 of the organization’s member states. “The 2012 Non-Aligned Movement summit will be held in Iran,” Foreign Ministry Spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast told reporters on Tuesday, without specifying whether the capital city of Tehran, Kish Island or another location would [...]

Efforts should be made to make the Middle East a nuclear weapons-free zone, the Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman said on the last day of the Tehran nuclear disarmament conference. “We really believe that a Middle East without nuclear weapons can bring about stability and peace,” Ramin Mehmanparast said in an exclusive interview with Press TV [...]

Brazilian Defense Minister Nelson Jobim has stated that Brasilia prefers diplomacy for solving the dispute over Iran’s nuclear program rather than tough measures. Speaking on the sidelines of the Nuclear Security Summit in Washington on Monday, Jobim said the previous sanctions never hindered Iran’s nuclear activities. The US and some of its allies want sanctions [...]

Iran’s envoy to the UN nuclear watchdog says the director general’s silence over Tehran’s objections made to the report shows that he too recognizes its problems. “The silence adopted by the Director-General and certain others about the objections we had made shows that [Yukiya] Amano has also reached the conclusion that the report is somewhat [...]

As the West pushes for new sanctions against Iran, the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) moves to issue a new statement, voicing its support for Iran’s peaceful nuclear program. Egypt’s envoy to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) read the newly-issued NAM statement in a Wednesday meeting of nuclear watchdog’s board of governors. “NAM confirms the basic [...]

For the fist time in its almost fifty-year-old history, the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) has criticized the director general of the UN nuclear watchdog for making ‘a subjective assessment’ of Iran’s enrichment plans. Yukiya Amano, the new director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), has recently issued a two-edged report, which leveled an unprecedented [...]

Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki on Tuesday underlined Tehran’s firm resolve to boost cooperation with the West African state of Ghana. “There is a serious will in Iran to expand ties with Ghana. We believe that we have every reason to have good ties with Ghana,” Mottaki said in a meeting with the Ghana’s visiting [...]

The Non-Aligned Movement is set to present the IAEA Board of Governors a declaration in support of Iran’s nuclear program, a senior Iranian official says. “The ambassadors of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) reached a consensus to prepare a declaration in favor of Iran to be read out in the IAEA Board of Governor’s March meeting,” [...]

Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki has criticized India for voting in favor of a recent resolution by the UN nuclear watchdog against Tehran’s nuclear program. “It was not expected that despite cordial relations (between Iran and India) and facts about Iran’s nuclear activities, New Delhi would adopt a stance contrary to the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) [...]

Members of the Non-Aligned movement (NAM) have expressed support for Iran’s nuclear energy program, rejecting double standards on the issue. During a meeting at the United Nations in New York on Friday, NAM members rejected double standards on the nuclear rights of signatories to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). They said that all NPT members [...]

Ambassadors of the Non-Aligned Movement countries in the United Nations held a meeting in New York on Thursday over Iran’s nuclear program. Participants of the meeting which was headed by the Egyptian Ambassador to UN, announced their support for the Islamic Republic of Iran’s nuclear work, stressing that all NPT member states should enjoy equal [...]

The Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) has once more voiced its support for Iran’s nuclear program, Iran’s Ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) says. “The ambassadors of the NAM member-states have unanimously signed a statement to voice their support for Iran’s peaceful nuclear program,” IRNA quoted Ali-Asghar Soltaniyeh as saying on Wednesday. “Egypt’s ambassador will [...]

The Non-aligned Movement (NAM) and the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) have condemned a UN anti-Iran resolution on human rights violation. In separate statements, NAM and OIC representatives expressed strong disapproval of a UN non-binding resolution which accuses Iran of human rights violation. They called the resolution ‘a politically-motivated move, which undermined human rights [...]

First ladies of Non-Aligned Movement states conferred the ways to annihilate poverty and hunger across the world in Rome. Also, Iran’s first lady Azam Farahi, delivered a speech at the meeting held on the sidelines of UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) meeting on food security as below: I thank the Almighty for having the [...]

In what appears to be a step towards the normalization of relations between Tehran and Cairo, Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki invites his Egyptian counterpart to the country. “Mottaki invited Egyptian foreign minister (Ahmed Aboul Gheit) as head of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) to hold consultations about regional development,” Iranian Student News Agency (ISNA) reported [...]