TEHRAN (defapress)- Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Monday blasted President Donald Trump over a New York Times report detailing how he has largely avoided paying income taxes and received money from foreign sources as president.

TEHRAN (defapress) – South Korea and Russia will discuss President Vladimir Putin's possible visit to Seoul as soon as the new coronavirus situation normalizes, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said.

TEHRAN (defapress)- Suicides among active-duty members of the United States Army increased by 30 percent in the six months since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, matching an overall rise in violent behavior among almost all branches of the military.

TEHRAN (defapress)- President Donald Trump said Sunday that he demanded his Democratic opponent Joe Biden take a drug test either directly before or after the upcoming presidential debate this week.

TEHRAN (defapress) – Venezuela is working out a new law that will help overcome the effects of US sanctions imposed on the country, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro announced.

TEHRAN (defapress) – The New York Times obtained two decades of Donald Trump's tax information, reporting Sunday that the US president paid only $750 in federal income taxes the year he won the presidency and again during his first year in office.

TEHRAN (defapress)- A group of prominent Saudi dissident figures in exile launched a political party that they hope will bring about a transition to democracy and ultimately dethrone the Arab kingdom’s de facto ruler, Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman (MbS), the first formalized political opposition during King Salman’s reign.

TEHRAN (defapress) – British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will call for a global plan to prevent pandemics and pledge more funds to the World Health Organization in a speech to the UN General Assembly on Saturday.

TEHRAN (defapress) – Joe Biden predicted that Donald Trump will step down if he loses his reelection bid in November, dismissing concerns that the US president may seek to hold on to power even if he’s voted out of office.

TEHRAN (defapress) – US President Donald Trump says he will win the election unless Democrats cheat, and in that case, there will be no transition of power.

TEHRAN (defapress) – The Russian Embassy in Washington called upon the US government to focus its effort on fighting the coronavirus rather than criticizing the Russian vaccine.

TEHRAN (defapress) – US President Donald Trump declined to commit to providing a peaceful transfer of power if he loses the election, prompting a backlash on social media from critics who said it raised questions about his willingness to relinquish power.

TEHRAN (defapress) – The president of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro, denounced before the UN General Assembly the aggression in the media, political and economic spheres implemented by the United States against this South American nation.

TEHRAN (defapress)- Russian President Vladimir Putin called for strengthening the capability of the World Health Organization (WHO) and for removing barriers for partnership in the healthcare sector.

TEHRAN (defapress)- US President Donald Trump used the UN General Assembly (UNGA) on Tuesday to attack China’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic, saying it must be held accountable for having “unleashed this plague onto the world”.

TEHRAN (defapress)- Europe is ready for dialogue with Turkey on the issue of the Eastern Mediterranean, said French President Emmanuel Macron Tuesday.

TEHRAN (defapress) - Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov stated that Moscow is having trouble investigating the Navalny case, as some evidence has been taken out of Russia, while Berlin has not provided any information on the case.

TEHRAN (defapress) - Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro claims that US President Donald Trump's administration gave its approval to the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to carry out recent "covert and terrorist operations" against an array of targets in the country.

TEHRAN (defapress)- China on Monday reiterated Taiwan is an inalienable part of China and denied the so-called mid-line in the Taiwan Strait amid the recent tensions that resulted from interactions between US officials and Taiwan's Democratic Progressive Party.

TEHRAN (defapress)- The Foreign Ministry of Venezuela in a Monday statement denounced recently-announced US sanctions against President Nicolas Maduro as "aggression".

TEHRAN (defapress) – Russian senator Vladimir Dzhabarov stressed that Iran and Russia will continue military-technical cooperation despite Washington's counteraction.

TEHRAN (defapress)- Joe Biden, the Democratic presidential nominee, made an urgent plea on Sunday to the conscience of Senate Republicans, asking them to defy President Donald Trump and refuse to ram through his nominee to the supreme court before the November election.

TEHRAN (defapress) – China's Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Wang Wenbin called US claims on returning UN sanctions on Iran baseless.

TEHRAN (defapress) – United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told the Security Council he cannot take any action on a US declaration that all UN sanctions on Iran had been reimposed because “there would appear to be uncertainty” on the issue.

TEHRAN (defapress) - Britain, France and Germany told the UN Security Council that UN sanctions relief for Iran - agreed under a 2015 nuclear deal - would continue beyond Sept. 20, when the United States asserts that all the measures should be reimposed.

TEHRAN (defapress) - South Africa's state security agency said it had found no evidence that Iran was plotting to assassinate the US ambassador to Pretoria, Lana Marks.

TEHRAN (defapress) - US President Donald Trump claimed on Friday that Russia created its hypersonic missile after receiving information about such technologies from the administration of his predecessor Barack Obama.

TEHRAN (defapress) – Paris has rejected US allegations against Hezbollah, noting that there is no evidence showing Hezbollah’s storing explosives in France.

TEHRAN (defapress) - The United States has imposed sanctions on two Iranian entities and 45 associated individuals, the US Treasury Department said.

TEHRAN (defapress)- The European Parliament on Thursday urged the EU member states to impose arms embargo on Saudi Arabia over the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi and Yemen war.

TEHRAN (defapress)- Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden said President Donald Trump should step down over his coronavirus response during a town hall just outside of Scranton, Pa., on Thursday evening.

TEHRAN (defapress)- Fayez al-Sarraj, the head of Libya's internationally-recognized government, stated he wants to quit by the end of October and hand over power to a new executive authority as efforts to find a political solution to the country's years-long conflict gather pace.

TEHRAN (defapress) – Syria censured US President Donald Trump over his blatant desire for the assassination of President Bashar al-Assad, likening Washington to a ‘terrorist group.’

TEHRAN (defapress) – US President Donald Trump took exception on Wednesday to comments from the director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, who said a vaccine for the novel coronavirus could be broadly rolled out in mid-2021 and that masks might be even more effective.

TEHRAN (defapress) – The UN secretary-general says it is up to the Security Council to interpret its resolution on the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) nuclear deal, following the US threats to snapback all sanctions against Iran.

TEHRAN (defapress) – US Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden warned the United Kingdom that it must honor the Northern Irish peace deal as it extracts itself from the European Union or there would be no US trade deal.

TEHRAN (defapress)- US President Donald Trump admitted that he intended to have Syrian President Bashar al-Assad assassinated after an alleged chemical attack in 2017 that Washington blamed on Damascus but reversed his decision due to purported opposition by the then-Secretary of Defense James Mattis.

TEHRAN (defapress) – The United States has once again called on its European allies to impose sanctions against Iran.

TEHRAN (defapress) – A member of the Iranian Parliament National Security and Foreign Policy Commission said on Tuesday that the accorded agreement between the UAE and Bahrain with the Zionist regime is accepting humiliation in the name of peace.

TEHRAN (defapress) – US President Donald Trump has threatened to strike Iran “1000 times greater in magnitude” following a false report of a US media on alleged Iran plan to assassinate a US diplomat.

TEHRAN (defapress) – Venezuela’s chief prosecutor Tarek Saab on Monday announced charges of terrorism and weapons trafficking against an alleged US spy who was detained last week in the South American country.

TEHRAN (defapress) – The suggestion of German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas that Moscow should send its requests on the situation with Russian blogger Alexei Navalny to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons is just an excuse, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said.

TEHRAN (defapress) - Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov confirmed on Friday that Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko would pay a visit to Russia on September 14, and added that no documents are expected to be signed following his talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

TEHRAN (defapress)- US President Donald Trump boasted that he protected Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman (MbS) after Jamal Khashoggi's brutal murder, Bob Woodward's forthcoming book says, according to a new report.

TEHRAN (defapress)- US sanctions against three Russians for alleged attempts to influence the election process in the United States are aimed at exacerbating tensions in bilateral relations, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman commented on Washington’s introduction of new restrictive measures during her regular press briefing.

TEHRAN (defapress) – The charity at the center of a political firestorm in Canada announced it will shutter its operations in the country, the latest in a scandal that has placed prime Justin Trudeau at the center of a parliamentary and ethics investigation.

TEHRAN (defapress)- The US has revoked more than 1,000 visas belonging to Chinese nationals linked to the People's Liberation Army, according to Wednesday statements issued by a US State Department Spokesperson.

TEHRAN (defapress)- Washington is directly intervening into maritime and territorial disputes in the troubled South China Sea region and becoming the main driver of militarization there to suit its own agenda, a senior Chinese diplomat said.

TEHRAN (defapress)- US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo asserted on Wednesday that there is a "substantial chance" that what is described as Alexei Navalny's "poisoning" came as a result of an order made by "senior Russian officials".

TEHRAN (defapress)- The commander of US Central Command stated that his country will reduce the number of its forces in Iraq from 5,200 to 3,000 by the end of September.

TEHRAN (defapress)- Democrat Joe Biden leads US President Donald Trump by 12 percentage points nationally among likely US voters, according to a Reuters/Ipsos opinion poll that also showed the number of persuadable voters had shrunk compared with four years ago.

TEHRAN (defapress) – The major goal of the anti-Russian campaign linked to Russian blogger Alexei Navalny’s case is to step up sanctions rather than care about his health, the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Wednesday.

TEHRAN (defapress)- South Africa's leading political party fired back at President Donald Trump on Tuesday over disparaging remarks the US president was alleged to have made about Nelson Mandela, the South African former president and civil rights leader.

TEHRAN (defapress)- China will sanction senior US officials who visit Taiwan, as well as the American companies that they work with, The Global Times' editor-in-chief, Hu Xijin, stated on Tuesday.

TEHRAN (defapress)- Head of the Iranian Parliament’s Human Rights Committee called on Paris to apologize to the world Muslims for the sacrilegious move that has been repeated by a notorious French weekly against Prophet Mohammad (PBUH), underlining serious confrontation against the perpetrators of such moves.

TEHRAN (defapress)- Chinese President Xi Jinping defended his country's handling of the coronavirus saying Beijing acted in an open and transparent manner, and that it had taken concrete efforts that helped save tens of millions of lives around the world during the pandemic.

TEHRAN (defapress)- President Donald Trump was struggling to retain support of active US service members, according to polls, even before last week’s bombshell report that the commander-in-chief referred to fallen and captured US service members as “losers” and “suckers”. But some veterans and military family members remain conflicted.

TEHRAN (defapress)- The Russian Foreign Ministry summoned German Ambassador to Moscow Geza Andreas von Geyr to discuss the situation around blogger Alexei Navalny, the Ministry’s Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova told reporters on Tuesday.

TEHRAN (defapress)- US President Donald Trump accused the Pentagon’s leadership Monday of seeking wars to keep defense contractors "happy".

TEHRAN (defapress)- Russian Deputy Prime Minister Yury Borisov said Moscow is trying to help Damascus break through an economic blockade created by Washington's new sanctions under the so-called Caesar Act, which deters any foreign companies and individuals from taking part in the reconstruction of the war-ravaged country.