Once again, another former top Iranian diplomat has started an academic career at one of the America´s most prestigious universities. Seyed Hossein Mousavian, Islamic Republic of Iran´s former ambassador to Germany and leading nuclear negotiator is reportedly living in the United States and working as a research fellow at Princeton University.
The Obama White House’s top nonproliferation official said that the United Nations Security Council would pass a new resolution sanctioning Iran over its nuclear program with Russian and Chinese support, and that Iranian efforts to lobby countries against a new sanctions resolution will fail.
“I am very confident that unless Iran does [...]
The United Nations public affairs office informs the press that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has cancelled a press conference scheduled for 3pm today.
Iran is the number-one terror-sponsoring nation in the world; it has been killing Americans for years.The country is led to by mad mullahs who see nuclear weapons as a ticket to paradise. Why would one key congressman spend the last year and a half trying to derail plans to stop Iran’s nuclear program?
It was signed by seventy members of US Congress concerning mismanagement at Voice of America’s Persian news Network: “The apparent lack of oversight regarding the management, staffing, mission, and content of VOA-PNN broadcasting- an American-taxpayer-funded program-ironically may have harmed the plight of those seeking human rights, instead of helping it.
On March 24, Obama administration officials briefed reporters on what was described as a very positive development in the U.S. effort to keep Iran from getting a nuclear weapon: China had agreed to participate in a conference call to discuss sanctions.
The Islamic regime in Iran has a pool of defenders among the American “elite” media, political analysts, activists, and academia.
The Obama administration should continue to endorse and rally international support for Iranians’ human rights. And if the government continues to stonewall on its nuclear program, intensified sanctions targeting the country’s military and rulers will exacerbate its economic woes.
The unnamed people who captured on video and made public the shooting death of an Iranian protester have been chosen as winners of a George Polk Award
The Senate on Thursday approved legislation that would let President Barack Obama impose sanctions on Iran’s gasoline suppliers and penalize some of Tehran’s elites, a move aimed at pressuring Tehran to give up its nuclear program.