Iranian President Hassan Rouhani tells cabinet: Today, we expect the incoming US administration to return to the rule of law and commit themselves, and if they can, in the next four years, to remove all the black spots of the previous four years.
Tehran has recently stepped up military drills as part of an effort to pressure President-elect Joe Biden over the nuclear deal that US President Donald Trump pulled out of.
Head of Iran's nuclear agency asks IAEA to "prevent paving ground for misunderstanding."
In the first phase of the drill Friday morning, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps' aerospace division launches several surface-to-surface ballistic missiles against simulated enemy bases.
Satellite footage from Dec. 25 shows Revolutionary Guards sent the drones to the Al-Jawf province in northern Yemen, an area that is controlled by the Houthi rebels. Move believed to be part of Tehran's effort to achieve plausible deniability in case it decides to strike Israel.
Iran tells UN's nuclear watchdog that “there is no limitation on its R&D activities” and “modification and installation of the relevant equipment for the mentioned R&D activities have been already started” at its Fuel Plate Fabrication Plant in Isfahan.
Foreign Minister Javad Zarif: With fictitious Iran 'declassifications' and false claims about al-Qaida, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is pathetically ending his disastrous career.
"It is clear that we don’t have many months ahead of us. We have weeks," Rafael Grossi says in an interview for the Reuters Next conference.
"If the Americans do not lift financial, banking and oil sanctions by Feb. 21, we will definitely expel the IAEA inspectors from the country and will definitely end the voluntary implementation of the Additional Protocol,” Iranian MP says.
State media quotes Revolutionary Guards Commander Hossein Salami as saying the underground base is “one of several bases housing the navy’s strategic missiles.” Last year, the Guards said Iran had built underground “missile cities” along the Persian Gulf coastline, warning of a “nightmare for Iran’s enemies.”
