TEHRAN – Despite his fervent opposition to the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), the US president has been unable to scrap the deal, Iran’s foreign minister said, stressing that withdrawal from the multilateral nuclear agreement would make the US internationally isolated.

Donald Trump had pledged in his election campaign that his first priority would be to tear the JCPOA apart, but such thing has not happened after a year since he took the office as the US president, Mohammad Javad Zarif said at a television talk show on Monday, according to the Tasnim News Agancy.

Iraqi security forces have killed six members of DaeshTakfiri terrorist group in an operation in the northern oil-rich province of Kirkuk as they are joined by allied fighters from Popular Mobilization Units to purge the entire country from the extremists, Press T.V reported.

Captain Ahmed al-Jubouri said federal police forces carried out a search operation on Monday morning to clear the central part of Hawijah, located some 230 kilometers north of the capital Baghdad, from possible Daesh remnants.

TEHRAN – Foreign Ministry spokesman BahramQassemi said on Monday that Iran had not received any official request from the European Union for negotiation on Tehran’s missile program.

Pointing to Iran’s strong ties with European countries, Qassemi said the two sides exchange their views on various subjects, but what the Western mainstream media say is different from what is taking place in reality.

At least six civilians have been killed when Saudi military aircraft carried out a string of airstrikes in Yemen's northwestern province of Sa’ada as the Saudi regime presses ahead with an atrocious military campaign against its crisis-hit southern neighbor.

Local sources, speaking on condition of anonymity, said six people lost their lives and seven others sustained injuries on Monday afternoon, when Saudi fighter jets struck two vehicles in the al-Qatinat area of Baqim district, Yemen’s Arabic-language al-Masirah television network reported.

Iran has inaugurated the mass production line of a new tactical unmanned aerial vehicle, which is armed with a precision-guided bomb.

Iran's Defense Ministry on Monday unveiled Mohajer 6 drone equipped with Qaem precision-guided bomb during a ceremony attended by Defense Minister Brigadier General Amir Hatami on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the victory of the Islamic Revolution.