TEHRAN (Basirat): Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi said the European Union’s Thursday move to allocate 18 million euros ($20.6 mln) to support Iran has nothing to do with the EU’s expected package of economic measures to save the 2015 nuclear deal.

TEHRAN (Basirat): Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi deplored a recent move by the US administration to form an "Iran Action Group" to raise pressure on the Islamic Republic, saying it calls to mind the coup d'état in Iran orchestrated by Washington and London in 1953.