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TEHRAN, June 2 (NNN-TASNIM) – Iran’s Foreign Ministry Spokesperson, Seyed Abbas Mousavi, decried the US government’s crackdown on protests, over the killing of an unarmed African-American man, at the hands of Police in Minneapolis, urging Washington to stop violence and let American people breathe.

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — An Iranian scientist imprisoned in the U.S. and acquitted in a federal trade secrets case is on his way back to Iran after being deported, the country’s foreign minister said Tuesday.

Sirous Asgari was in the air on a flight back to Iran, Mohammad Javad Zarif said in an Instagram post.

“Congratulations to his wife and his esteemed family,” Zarif wrote.

Iran’s state-run IRNA news agency later reported the news, citing Zarif.

01 June 2020; MEMO: The new Speaker of the Iranian Shura Council, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf yesterday rejected negotiations with the United States, describing them as “futile”.

“The new Shura Council considers negotiating with America; the global axis of arrogance to be futile, even harmful,” Qalibaf said in his first major speech.

CARACAS, June 1 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Two Iranian tankers that delivered fuel to Venezuela as part of a five-vessel flotilla have begun to sail back, according to Refinitiv Eikon, as the government of the South American nation prepares stations to begin charging for the gasoline.

The supply is meant to ease fuel shortages that have plagued the country. After three months of fuel rationing, Venezuelans began lining up on Saturday to wait for the Iranian gasoline to be sold at stations from Monday under a new system combining subsidies and internationally-indexed prices.

31 May 2020; AFP: Iran's parliament speaker Mohammad-Bagher Ghalibaf said any negotiations with the United States would be "futile" as he delivered his first major speech to the conservative-dominated chamber on Sunday.

Ghalibaf, a former commander of the Revolutionary Guards' air force, was elected speaker on Thursday after February elections that swung the balance in the legislature towards ultra-conservatives.

TEHRAN, May 31 (NNN-IRNA) – Iran’s Foreign Ministry condemned the recent U.S. decision to end the sanctions waivers under the 2015 Iranian nuclear deal.

The U.S. move, to end the remaining sanctions waivers under the landmark deal is a “violation of United Nations Security Council Resolution 2231” which endorses the deal, Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman, Abbas Mousavi, said.

TEHRAN, May 30 (Xinhua) -- Iran's Foreign Ministry on Saturday condemned the recent U.S. decision to end the sanctions waivers under the 2015 Iranian nuclear deal.

The U.S. move to end the remaining sanctions waivers under the landmark deal is a "violation of United Nations Security Council Resolution 2231" which endorses the deal, Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Abbas Mousavi said.

TEHRAN, May 28 (Xinhua) -- Iranian lawmakers on Thursday unanimously elected Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf, former mayor of the capital Tehran, as the speaker of the country's new parliament, official IRNA news agency reported.

Qalibaf, candidate of principlist faction, won 230 votes from the 267 lawmakers present at the parliament.

Meanwhile, Amir Hossein Ghazizadeh Hashemi and Ali Nikzad were elected as the first and second vice speakers of parliament.

TEHRAN, May 27 (NNN-TASNIM) – The Permanent Secretariat of the International Conference on Supporting Palestinian Intifada (Uprising), at the Iranian Parliament, strongly condemned the Israeli regime’s plan to annex major parts of the occupied Palestinian land in the West Bank.

25 May 2020; MEMO: Iran on Sunday confirmed 58 more fatalities from coronavirus over the past 24 hours, bringing the nationwide death toll to 7,417, Anadolu Agency reports.

A further 2,180 people tested positive for COVID-19, raising the overall count to 135,701, said the Health Ministry spokesman Kianoush Jahanpour.

He said 105,801 patients have recovered and been discharged from hospitals so far, while 2,615 patients remain in critical condition.