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A brother of Iranian President Hassan Rohani has been sentenced to prison for corruption, the official news agency Irna reported on Saturday. Hossein Fereydoun "has been found not guilty of certain charges, but has been sentenced to prison for others," she said, citing an Iranian judicial official named Hamidreza Hosseini. The length of the sentence, which he says can be challenged on appeal, is unknown. The trial of Hossein Fereydoun, who was tried alongside six other defendants, opened in February. Arrested in 2017, he was released on parole. As a close adviser to Hassan Rohani, he took part in the negotiations that culminated in the 2015 international agreement on the Iranian nuclear program........... Read the full article

Tehran : Iranian President Hassan Rohani on Wednesday hailed the EU's "big move" to allow trade to continue, despite the reinstatement of US sanctions. Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, questioned by the BBC, has judged the European efforts "better than expected". Donald Trump denounced the 2015 international agreement on the Iranian nuclear program in May and paved the way for the reinstatement of sanctions lifted after its conclusion, which should be extended to Tehran's trading partners. A first salvo of measures was re-established in August; others will follow in early November. The European signatories of the Vienna Agreement, which seek to save this joint Global Action Plan, last week proposed the introduction by November of a "special purpose vehicle" (SPV) to continue trade with the Islamic Republic. "To maintain financial and monetary relations in Iran, Europe has constituted a special body (...) Europe has taken a major initiative," said Hassan Rohani, quoted by the news agency Tasnim. The project, he said, made the US president "furious". The European idea is to create a barter system - comparable to that used by the Soviet Union during the Cold War - to exchange Iranian oil for European products without financial transactions. This is not an "oil-for-food program," said Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Bahram Qasemi on Monday, citing the UN scheme set up in 1996 to allow the people of Iraq to escape shortages due to the international embargo. The International Court of Justice (ICJ), the judicial organ of the United Nations, on Wednesday ordered the United States to ensure that its sanctions do not affect the humanitarian situation in Iran. Read the full article

Donald Trump said Monday he is ready to meet with Iranian leaders without preconditions to discuss ways to improve relations between Washington and Tehran. The United States decided in May to withdraw from the agreement reached in July 2015 limiting the Iranian nuclear program in exchange for a reduction in the economic sanctions adopted against the Islamic Republic. "If they want us to meet, we will meet," said the US president. "I do not know if they're ready, I ended the deal with Iran, it was a ridiculous deal, I think they'll end up wanting us to meet." Donald Trump, who hosted Italian Council President Giuseppe Conte at the White House, was questioned by the press about the possibility of a meeting with Iranian President Hassan Rohani. "I will meet anyone, I believe in meetings," he said. "I will certainly meet the Iranians if they want us to meet," he added, adding that there would be no "pre-conditions". "If we can achieve something meaningful and not at the end of useless paper that was the other agreement, I would certainly agree to meet them," said Trump. This announcement by Donald Trump comes after a series of unhelpful exchanges between the US president and Iranian leaders. On July 22, Trump threatened with unusual violence his Iranian counterpart Hassan Rohani in a Twitter message written in capital letters. "Never again threaten the United States or you will suffer the consequences as few have known before in history.We are no longer a country that supports your demented remarks of violence and death.Sake careful," said the tenant of the White House. This message came in response to a speech by Hassan Rohani in which he warned the United States against a hostile policy against Iran that could lead to "the mother of all wars". For the moment, the other states of the P5 + 1 signatories of the nuclear agreement are looking for ways to ensure its sustainability despite the resumption of US sanctions. Read the full article