Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad declared at today's Tehran rally marking the 30th anniversary of the Iranian revolution that the Iranian government is "ready" to talk to the United States "in a fair atmosphere with mutual respect." The United States and Iran...
In an interview today with Suddeutsche Zeitung, Iranian parliament speaker Larijani said that the Iranian government was "ready to talk without pre-conditions" with the United States, adding that he believes the nuclear issue is not unsolvable. However, Larijani says...
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton met with German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier today, and said that while "President Obama has signaled his intention to support tough and direct diplomacy with Iran," the US intends to punish the Iranian government if it...
Reports have been swirling around for the past several days that the United States has been holding high-level but discreet talks with Iran even as the Obama Administration has publicly dismissed rumors of any official efforts to improve relations. Now, Iran too is...
After ordering a cameraman to turn off his camera, Israeli Ambassador to Australia Yuval Rotem engaged in a very frank discussion about the recent Israeli war in the Gaza Strip, calling it "a preintroduction" to an attack on Iran that Israel apparently expects within...
Yesterday it was reported that the Obama Administration was looking at sending a reply letter to the Iranian government which would signal a willingness to improve ties and perhaps hold direct talks between the two. The move would have been the most significant move...
ts been nearly three months now since Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad offered a congratulatory letter to then-President-elect Barack Obama. The move was seen as one of the most significant overtures toward better relations between the two countries in years,...
The fragile truce in the Gaza Strip continues to endure. The Israeli invasion force has left... the bodies have largely been recovered from the rubble that used to be the cities and refugee camps of Gaza. This is the time when a war torn nation would begin its...
With Iran's Bushehr nuclear power plant scheduled to begin operation sometime this year, the nation's ongoing enrichment program is running low on its supplies of raw uranium, which the gas-graphite reactor requires to be enriched to low levels to use. The Times is...
Investigating the persistent, evidence-free assumptions that the Iranian government is involved in some untoward effort to produce something nuclear weapons related, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) revealed today that Iran has purchased tungsten copper, and has been...
