Mohammad Javad Zarif

Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras will speak at the Ancient Civilizations Forum starting in Athens on Monday at 13:00′ at Zappion.

Earlier, Tsipras met with China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi. It has been agreed that in his visit to Beijing in May, the Greek Prime Minister will sign a three-year agreement action plan to bring Chinese investments to Greece.

Iranian and U.S. officials have engaged in a fresh war of words over a nuclear deal that aimed to prevent Tehran from acquiring nuclear weapons.

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on April 20 criticized "worn-out" U.S. accusations a day after U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson accused Iran of "alarming ongoing provocations" to destabilize countries in the Middle East.

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Russia, Syria, and Iran warned the United States against launching new strikes on Syria and called for an international probe into a chemical attack there earlier this month.

The Munich Security Conference has started in Munich on Feb. 17 with top world leaders, diplomats and defense officials getting their first opportunity to meet with members of the U.S. President Donald Trump's administration amid concerns over the new president's commitment to NATO and posture toward Russia.

Iran and the United States have engaged in a war over the 140-character social media platform of Twitter amid escalating tension between the two countries that began with an Iranian missile test launch over the weekend.

Iran on Tuesday warned the United States against "creating new tensions" over its ballistic missile tests as Washington called for urgent talks at the UN Security Council on the issue.

Iranian officials said Jan. 18 that they were strongly opposed to the United States joining Syrian peace talks in Kazakhstan next week, local media reported.

"We are hostile to their presence and we have not invited them," Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said late Jan. 17, according to the Tasnim news agency, AFP reported.  

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif visited Ankara on Sept. 28, in an unscheduled trip to the capital on his way back to Tehran from a visit to New York for the U.N. General Assembly, and discussed the Syrian crisis with Turkish officials, diplomatic sources told Hürriyet Daily News.

Iran has so far seen only around $3 billion in previously frozen assets returned since it struck a nuclear deal with world powers, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said April 18.

The extent to which Tehran stands to gain from the agreement to place its nuclear program under tight controls has been a matter of fierce debate since Iran signed the accord last year.

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