Mohammad Javad Zarif

The top diplomats of Turkey, Iran, and Azerbaijan on April 5 held a trilateral meeting in Iran to discuss key cooperation issues.

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg on March 19 condemned the suicide bomb attack in Istanbul that killed five people, and said the treaty will continue to support Turkey in its fight against terror. 

Tehran's recent ballistic missile tests did not violate a U.N. resolution and were not illegal, Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said March 15 after being questioned on the issue by Australia.

The United Nations Security Council met on March 14 at the request of the United States to discuss the missile tests that have raised the prospect of new sanctions.

Iran's foreign minister on March 14 defended the nation's right to use ballistic missiles following a test last week, but offered no explanation for anti-Israeli messages reportedly written on them.

Speaking in Wellington, New Zealand, Mohammad Javad Zarif said Iran has always reserved the right to defend itself.

Iranian moderates have won a majority in parliament and a top clerical body charged with selecting the next supreme leader, dealing a major blow to hard-liners in the first elections held since last summer's landmark nuclear agreement with world powers.

Bosnian Foreign Minister Igor Crnadak made an official visit to Iran on Monday, meeting his counterpart Mohammad Javad Zarif in a bid to develop relations that could economically benefit the cash-strapped Balkan state.

"We discussed many ways to increase our economic cooperation," said Crnadak said at a press conference, according to Iranian news FARS.

The world has to be united in its decisions on Syria - and Serbia will accept any European solution on the refugee issue, Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic told a conference of world leaders in London dedicated to the Syrian crisis on Thursday.

Iran took a huge step to ending its international isolation Jan. 16 as sanctions on the Islamic republic were lifted following the entry into force of last July's momentous nuclear deal with major powers.

US Secretary of State Kerry taps the personal relationship he has formed with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Zarif during the negotiations on the Islamic Republic's nuclear program, for setting 10 US Navy sailors free after they were detained when their boats drifted into Iranian watersIt turned out to be the international crisis that wasn't.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Jan. 14 stood by ally Saudi Arabia in its widening rift with Iran over the execution of a Shiite cleric while urging the regional rivals to pursue a diplomatic solution.