Tag: Rouhani

Pakistan, Iran agree to continue with gas pipeline

 •          Nawaz calls for establishment of joint border markets to facilitate trade and prevent smuggling, hopes for increasing Pakistan-Iran trade volume to $5 billion •         ...

Sartaj conveys Nawaz’s message of ‘friendship’ to Rouhani

TEHRAN Advisor to the Prime Minister on National Security and Foreign Affairs, Sartaj Aziz called on Iranian President Hassan Rouhani in Tehran on Monday and...

US-Iran logjam ends, not with a bang but with Twitter

A surprise first phone contact between US President Barack Obama and his Iranian counterpart Hassan Rouhani on Friday was not only a dramatic moment...

Obama speaks to Rouhani, says Iran deal possible

US President Barack Obama and Iranian President Hassan Rouhani spoke by telephone Friday, the first conversation between American and Iranian presidents in more than...

Rouhani warns of Talibanisation of Syria

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani warned on Thursday that Syria could become an extremist haven and called for cooperation to end the civil war. Iran considers...

US says ready to work with Iran if Rouhani is serious

The United States is ready to work with Iran’s new centrist president, Hassan Rouhani, if his administration engages seriously in efforts to resolve the...

Iran will never build nuclear arms: says Rouhani

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has said his country would never build nuclear weapons, US media reported on Thursday. Rouhani also told US broadcaster NBC he...

Rouhani acknowledges chemical weapons killed people in Syria

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said on Saturday for the first time that chemical weapons had killed people in ally Syria and called for the...

Zardari to attend Rouhani’s inauguration in Tehran

President Asif Ali Zardari will represent Pakistan in the inauguration ceremony of Iran’s president-elect Hassan Rouhani, presidential spokesman Senator Farhatullah Babar said on Friday. The...

Iran’s Rouhani says Israel threats ‘laughable’

Iranian President-elect Hassan Rouhani said on Wednesday it was laughable for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to say that Tehran was getting close to Israel’s...

Iran election: President-elect Hassan Rouhani hails win

    Newly-elected Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on Sunday hailed his election as Iran's president as a "victory of moderation over extremism". The reformist-backed cleric won just...

Iran celebrates Rouhani’s presidential win

Moderate cleric Hassan Rouhani has called his defeat of conservative hardliners a victory of moderation over extremism and pledged a new tone of respect...

Reformist Hassan Rouhani wins Iran presidential election

Hassan Rouhani, the sole reformist candidate in Iran’s presidential election, has won the Iranian presidential election, according to state-run Press TV. The election was marked...