Iran says unilateral US sanctions on developing countries violate basic principles of human rights and nations’ inherent right to development.

Washington has already triggered and tightened the conditions in Lebanon that have resulted in extreme hyperinflation, strict capital controls, and the massive loss of savings for many Lebanese.

North Korea has held a nighttime military parade in the capital Pyongyang to mark the founding anniversary of the nuclear-armed country.

The new Iranian government is facing a gargantuan task of fixing a troubled economy saddled with high inflation amid the most draconian US sanctions ever imposed on a country and the coronavirus pandemic.

US custom authorities have confiscated a set of Iranian tiles to be used in construction of a new mosque in Virginia.

Iran's petrochemical revenues will top a record $20 billion in the current Persian year of 1400 which ends on March 20, 2022, Managing Director of the National Petrochemical Company (NPC) Behzad Mohammadi says.

Foreign Minister Zarif has marked the 34th anniversary of Sardasht chemical attack, saying Western powers targeted the survivors twice.

The United States votes against an annual United Nations General Assembly resolution that condemned the American economic embargo on Cuba, in place since 1992.

The Cuban government declares plans to halt the acceptance of cash bank deposits in US dollars, blaming brutal American sanctions that have confined its ability to use the dollar.

Iran’s UN envoy says the US’s illegal and unilateral sanctions are cases in point for “war crimes and crimes against humanity.”