After the G20 summit on Friday, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that his government would be willing to play the role on mediator between Iran and the incoming administration of President-elect Barack Obama. With neither the US nor Iran responding at...
Israeli President Shimon Peres says he believes President-elect Barack Obama may be able to unite the international community and force Iran to the negotiating table. However he also indicated that any talks with Iran would have to be predicated on them meeting...
In a report which will be presented next week to a conference on the future of US-Iran policy, the Associated Press is reporting that experts will caution President-elect Barack Obama that adding more threats against Iran will not help resolve disputes between the two...
Iranian Defense Minister Mostafa Mohammed Najjar announced today that his government had successfully test-fired the next generation of their long range surface-to-surface missiles, dubbed the Sajjil. Minister Najjar touted the missile as having "extraordinary high...
After Tuesday's election, Iranian citizens and officials hoped that President-elect Barack Obama's victory was the beginning of a radical shift in US foreign policy with respect to Iran. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad offered a congratulatory statement to...
At his first press conference in his new status, US President-elect Barack Obama hit out at the Iranian government today, accusing them of "development of a nuclear weapon" and vowing "to mount an international effort to prevent that from happening." The Bush...
In one of the last conceivable financial moves the United States can possibly take against the Iranian banking system, the Bush Administration announced today that they will prevent US banks from processing transactions for Iranian banks even if the transactions were...
In a statement to the UN General Assembly, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) chief Mohamed ElBaradei said that he was still unable to "achieve full clarity regarding the absence of undeclared nuclear material and activities in Iran." He called on the Iranian...
In a move expected to be announced sometime after November's US Presidential Election, President Bush will reportedly announce his intentions to establish an "interests section" in Iran. An Interests Section is a diplomatic office operating out of a third nation's...
In the fourth such accusation in the past month, Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell today accused the Iranian government of meddling "in its most destructive, devious and deadly ways," and trying to "undermine" and "derail" the Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) between...
