Russia definitely should refrain from leaving the Paris Climate Accords and abandoning its environmental commitments, even though such a move would help to reduce the cost of equipment upgrades for domestic companies hit by Western sanctions, Russian Presidential Adviser on Climate Ruslan Edelgeriyev told Sputnik

Iran's Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian said on Thursday that the Islamic republic was ready to act as a mediator in the conflict between Ukraine and Russia

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian have discussed the prospects for resuming the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) on the Iranian nuclear program and the situation in Ukraine during a phone conversation at the initiative of the Iranian side, the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Thursday

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Monday welcomed the resumption of flights between Yemen's Sanaa and Jordan's Amman

Tehran intends to increase trade and investment with Moscow despite Western sanctions, Iranian Ambassador to Russia Kazem Jalali said in an interview with Sputnik on Monday

Glauk Konjufca, the chairman of Kosovo's legislature, suggested on Friday that the conflict in Ukraine raised the chances of the breakaway Serbian region to join the Council of Europe

All security threats that used to hinder the implementation of the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India Pipeline (TAPI) gas project have now been removed, Jamal Nasir Garhwal, the Afghan charge d'affaires in Moscow, told Sputnik on Friday

The European Union's coordinator for nuclear talks with Iran, Enrique Mora said on Friday he had been briefly detained by the police in the German city of Frankfurt on his return from Tehran, slamming it as a violation of the Vienna Convention