Turkey, Iran and Iraq on Thursday urged Iraq’s Kurdistan region to abandon a planned referendum on independence, threatening unspecified “counter-measures” if it goes ahead with the vote. The foreign ministers of Turkey, Iran and Iraq held a rare trilateral meeting Wednesday in New York on the sidelines of the UN ...
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov described US President Donald Trump’s stance on Iran nuclear deal as “extremely worrying”, stressing that Moscow would defend the landmark agreement. In his maiden speech at the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday, Trump said the deal, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action ...