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As evidence of Iran’s readiness, he cites an invitation made in February 2011 in Sweden for Marc Grossman, the top U.S. diplomat overseeing Afghanistan, to come to Tehran for talks. A U.S. source said that Washington proposed talks in Afghanistan... Full Article at The Washington Post
Iran and world powers have agreed to meet in Moscow next month for another round of negotiations over Tehran's nuclear program. European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton says both sides have agreed to continue the discussions on June 18-19 in... Full Article at Taiwan News
“We insist on the right of having a peaceful nuclear energy cycle and enrichment. This is the inalienable right of the Iranian nation,” he said. Russia ―in talks with Iran are focused on getting Tehran to suspend its production of uranium enriched to... Full Article at Taiwan News
They could push back threats of military action that have shaken oil markets and brought worries of triggering a wider Middle East conflict. European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton said the two sides agreed to continue the discussions June... Full Article at Newsday
Tough negotiations between Iran and world powers over Tehran’s nuclear program ended Thursday with a plan to meet next month for another round of talks but agreement on little else. The open channels between Iran and the six-nation bloc — the five... Full Article at Hamilton Spectator
EU states are set to introduce a total embargo of Iranian crude oil purchases in July. Diplomats say that potentially persuasive measure will not be canceled unless Tehran takes substantial steps to curb its nuclear activities. The powers want Iran to... Full Article at Lebanon Daily Star
Iran relies on Syria as its bridge to the Arab world, and as a crucial strategic partner in confronting Israel. But the Arab revolts have shaken Tehran’s calculations, with Mr. Assad unable to vanquish an uprising that is in its 15th month. Iran’s... Full Article at The New York Times
Some U.S. allies in the European and Asian community have already started taking steps away from Iranian crude oil purchases in an effort to escape economic pressure from the West. Sanctions are meant to take oil revenue away from Tehran that its... Full Article at Scoop - New Zealand News
The six world powers at the Baghdad talks rejected Tehran's counter-proposal for an immediate easing of increasingly stringent sanctions – partly in return for an Iranian pledge to widen the access of UN inspectors to its nuclear and military sites. ... Full Article at The Independent
Diplomats said the world powers offered Iran incentives to stop production of highly enriched uranium and transfer the material abroad in exchange for nuclear fuel for its research reactor in Tehran. Iranian diplomats expressed disappointment with that... Full Article at GlobalSecurity.org
Western powers insist Tehran must first shut down enrichment activities before sanctions can be eased. But both sides have powerful reasons not to abandon diplomacy. The powers want to avert the danger of a new Middle East war raised by Israeli threats... Full Article at Independent Online (South Africa)
“And there are all kinds of assessments about how long it will take them to get there.” “We still think we have some time for diplomacy, but it’s not indefinite,” the official said. Iranian analyst Hassan Abedini called the proposal put forward by the... Full Article at GulfToday.ae
China's Assistant Foreign Minister Ma Zhaoxu, who is also Beijing's representative to the talks on Iran's nuclear program, said in a statement after the meeting that all parties held serious and useful discussions focusing on the Iranian nuclear issue. Full Article at China Daily
AVIV, Israel, May 24 (UPI) -- Despite the prospect of a diplomatic breakthrough in talks about Iran's nuclear program between Tehran and a U.S.-led coalition in Baghdad, Israeli military officials say covert operations against "enemy countries" are on... Full Article at iStockAnalyst
They support Hezbollah and Hamas, and collaborate with al-Qaida — evidence of that is abundant. They have been responsible for killing Americans in Lebanon, Iraq and Afghanistan. They have violated the most fundamental tenets of international law,... Full Article at Ventura County Star
There is an argument that documenting Iran’s pre-2003 weapons program is an important means of putting pressure on the regime in Tehran. But focusing on the past can be counterproductive. Some Western voices want to focus on the past to demonstrate to... Full Article at Arms Control Wonk
Meanwhile, Iraq hopes that hosting such significant international meeting is another signal to the world after hosting the Arab League summit in late March, to confirm the country's emergence from isolation after wars and unrest. The UN has by now... Full Article at SINA English
And don't let Clifton Smith manipulate you any further than he already has. I consider bad press from the Courier as a vote of confidence in my elected officials. I would urge everyone in Beverly Hills to look at the wonderful metros that have been... Full Article at Brentwood Patch
In exchange, the group promised Iran a number of benefits, including medical isotopes, nuclear safety cooperation and spare parts for civilian aircraft. However, Tehran considered the western proposal “unbalanced” and rejected it, saying the group of... Full Article at Russia Today
(Reuters) - Iran and world powers agreed to meet again in Moscow next month for more talks to try to end the long-running dispute over Tehran's nuclear programme, but there was scant progress to resolve the main sticking points between the two sides. At... Full Article at Firstpost
Tehran (IPA: [tʰehˈɾɒn]; Persian: تهران Tehrān), population (as of 2005) 7,314,000 (metropolitan: 12,151,000), and a land area of 658 square kilometers (254 sq mi), is the capital city of Iran (Persia) and the center of Tehran Province. Full Article At Wikipedia.org
We stress the need and urgency for Iran to reach an agreement with the IAEA on a structured approach, including on access to relevant sites and information... to resolve all outstanding issues, particularly those relating to possible military dimensions [of Tehran's nuclear program].
When the future of the USS Iowa was in doubt, concerned citizens from across the country did everything they could to make sure future generations would know the historic significance of this battleship ... Those who served aboard the USS Iowa contributed to the U.S. effort in World War II, the Korean W...
This decision once again proves Tehran’s resolve for cooperation with the IAEA, which also makes evident the baseless [nature] of the allegations against Iran and proves the civilian [nature] of all of the Islamic Republic’s nuclear activities
This decision once again proved Tehran’s resolve for cooperation with the IAEA, which also confirmed the baseless [nature] of the allegations against Iran, and proves the civilian [nature] of all of the Islamic Republic’s nuclear activities
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said on Tuesday Congress should pass a proposed package of new oil- and banking-related sanctions to keep up the pressure on Tehran to abandon its nuclear program. Aides from Reid's office met on Tuesday with undisclosed ‘outside parties’ to discuss the sanctions, his s...
If religion truly were the guarantor of Iran’s behavior, why did Tehran sponsor the [Hezbollah] terrorist Imad Mughniyah?
The committee was established upon the request of [former] Prime Minister Saad Hariri during his visit to Tehran in November 2010, and the first meeting is expected to put into effect all previously agreed upon bilateral agreements and protocols
convinced the mullahs in Tehran that large-scale infantry assaults relying on the Islamic fervor of the Revolutionary guards and the Basij were their ace in the hole
If Tehran does decide to negotiate seriously with the P5+1 (i.e. the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council plus Germany), Khamenei would certainly need someone like Rafsanjani to shepherd the process
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) failed to fulfill its responsibility to supply fuel for the Tehran Research Reactor, which is tied to the lives of many patients
Iraq is not Taliban, and Baghdad is not Tehran or Riyadh
Russian considers the situation surrounding the Iranian nuclear program as alarming but not hopeless. We, naturally insist on Iran's full compliance with the UN Security Council, aimed at ruling out any possibility of Tehran's program being used for military activity
An IAEA expert commission equipped with special detectors are monitoring all Iranian nuclear facilities producing nuclear fuel or enriching uranium for humanitarian purposes, such as medial use, for example the Tehran Research Reactor. The IAEA has concluded Iran’s program is non-military
One senior Clinton administration official said inclusion of the People's Moujahedeen was intended as a goodwill gesture to Tehran and its newly elected moderate president, Mohammad Khatami.
The Pentagon is preparing an array of military options for striking Iran if hard-hitting diplomatic and economic sanctions fail to persuade Tehran to drop its nuclear ambitions.
The European Union’s new steps aimed at tightening the noose around Iran’s banks are unlikely to bridge a growing gap between Brussels and Washington over how hard to push financial sanctions against the Tehran regime.
Obama said that ‘there is still time and space’ for sanctions and diplomacy to halt Iran’s nuclear program, as did Cameron, but they issued a stern take on what happens if there’s not progress. ‘Tehran must understand that it cannot escape or evade the choice before it. Meet your international obligatio...
We're going to keep up the pressure with the strongest U.S. sanctions to date and the European Union preparing to impose an embargo on Iranian oil. Tehran must understand that it cannot escape or evade the choice before it. Meet your international obligations, or face the consequences.
Meanwhile, as the United States imposes its strongest sanctions to date and the European Union prepares to impose an embargo on Iranian oil, the choice for Tehran will be sharpened -- meet your international obligations or face the consequences
Tehran has opened a new chapter of constructive and serious cooperation with the IAEA, which is praiseworthy
Any kind of attack on Iran, or any sort of disturbance there, will have long-term energy security problems for India because it imports a significant amount of oil from Tehran
the threats to U.S. interests have been contained to date, and Obama has successfully mobilized other key countries, beyond a tight circle of allies, to increase pressure dramatically on Tehran as well as Pyongyang.
Obama wants to buy time in the Iranian conflict, in the hope that he can bring the regime in Tehran to its knees, or at least force it into negotiations. Prime Minister Netanyahu and his defense minister, Ehud Barak, are more impatient.
Hamas has never given complete loyalty to Tehran.
Twice this year, a high-level IAEA delegation visited Tehran in an effort to reach an agreement with Iran on a mechanism to clarify outstanding questions regarding past and present Iranian activities with a suspicious connection to a nuclear weapons program ... On both visits, IAEA officials asked, as a...
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Tehran and Iran: Barack Obama has hit back at Israel's prime minister, insisting the United States had not "given anything away" in new talks with Iran, as he defended his continued push for a diplomatic resolution to the dispute over Tehran's nuclear ambitions.
Tehran and Syria: SPECIAL envoy Kofi Annan said today in Tehran that Iran could help solve the crisis in Syria, where activists reported fresh violence a day before an international ceasefire is supposed to take effect.
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