Last week the United States was reported to have warned Israel against launching any attacks against Iran until after President-elect Barack Obama takes office in January. The report came hot on the heels of the Israeli military's annual security assessment, which...
In statements to reporters today, the Speaker of Iran's Parliament Ali Larijani said official requests from the United States for talks with Iranian parliamentarians are presently being considered, and that it is the general feeling of parliament that "the time has...
There is no shortage of US officials making broad statements accusing the Iranian government of attempting to develop a nuclear weapon, but after last week's International Atomic Energy Agency report on Iran yielded no interesting allegations to latch onto, US...
Amid several bellicose comments about the possibility of an impending Israeli strike against Iran Israeli Defense Ministry officials say they have been contacted by US officials who have asked them to refrain from launching any attacks against Iran until after...
Experts disagree on whether Iran even has the raw material to construct a single nuclear weapon if it chose to do so. They seem to agree, hawkish political sloganeering notwithstanding, that Iran has not diverted any of that material to military ends. Either way, the...
In an interview, former Israeli military chief and potential future Defense Minister General Moshe Ya'alon says that the Iranian revolution must be confronted "immediately," and suggests some rather extreme measures which this confrontation might involve. Firstly an...
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) reports that Iran plans to start installing another 3,000 centrifuges for its uranium enrichment program, which would bring the total amount of centrifuges in operation or in the process of being put into operation to...
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...
