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Zarif fuming over escalating global credibility of Iranian opposition PMOI/MEK

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Iranian regime Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif The Iranian regime’s atrocious report card of supporting international terrorism and being the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism came to haunt the mullahs’ Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif during his visit to Germany for the Munich Security Conference on Sunday. Reporters asked Zarif about European sanctions against Tehran over the mullahs’ terror campaign on their soil, especially through the course of 2018. Constantly dodging questions over the Iranian regime’s bombing and assassination plots across Europe during the past year, Zarif, as always, resorted to old lies to justify these heinous measures and signaled the source of Tehran’s main concerns. “The United States is listening to the wrong folks… what is clear is that there are people in Europe who have been on Europe’s terrorism list up until 2012. What happened all of a sudden that they were withdrawn from the terrorism list?... In 1998, the U.S. put th...

No meeting expected between Tillerson and Zarif in New York, Iran says

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US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson takes part in a press conference after his meeting on Libya, at Lancaster House in London on September 14, 2017 AFP, Sept. 17, 2017  - There are 'no plans' for United States Secretary of State Rex Tillerson to meet his Iranian counterpart Mohammed Javad Zarif on the sidelines of the  United Nations  General Assembly that kicks off on Monday, an Iranian spokesman said. Iranian foreign ministry spokesman Bahram Qassemi was quoted by Iranian media on Friday as saying no meeting was scheduled and they had not received a request for one from Washington. Earlier on Friday AFP news agency reported that the two were 'due to meet' along with the foreign ministers of other signatories of the 2015 nuclear deal that curbed Iran's nuclear program in exchange for sanctions relief. US President Donald Trump has strongly hinted that he will deem Iran to be non-compliant with the deal when he next has to decide on the matter in Octobe...