By STEPHEN CASTLE

LUXEMBOURG — The European Union is likely to agree on tough new sanctions against Iran that cover further investment in the country’s oil and gas industry as well as its financial sector, Foreign Secretary William Hague of Britain said Monday.
His comments came ahead of a meeting of the bloc’s 27 heads of government [...]

Mousavi says the regime, a “cult,” is doing more harm to the nation than its enemies can. The words must cut deep as a planned mass opposition rally on the anniversary of June 12 election approaches

Iran Human Rights, June 6: According to reports from Iran, 26 people have been transferred to the quarantine section of Ghesel hesar prison, west of Tehran, and are being prepared for execution. They can be executed within the next 48 hours.
The human rights lawyer Moammad Mostfaei wrote in a letter that this news has been [...]

The seven Baha’is imprisoned since spring 2008 (photo: Baha’i World News Service)

June 03, 2010
Seven Iranian Baha’i leaders incarcerated since 2008 are scheduled to appear in court on June 12, the Baha’i International Community representative to the United Nations in Geneva has told RFE/RL’s Radio Farda.
Diane Ala’i said on June 2 that it was not clear [...]

By EDITH M. LEDERER
UNITED NATIONS — After 15 years, Arab nations finally won agreement from the United States and the other nuclear powers to take the first step toward banning nuclear weapons from the Middle East. Now, the next move is Israel’s.
Although the U.S. joined the 188 other member nations of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty [...]

May 25 (Bloomberg) — Iranian filmmaker and opposition supporter Jafar Panahi, who was invited to be a juror at the Cannes film festival, was freed on bail, weeks after directors including Steven Spielberg, Francis Ford Coppola and Martin Scorsese called for his release.
Panahi left pre-trial detention today following Prosecutor General Abbas Jafari-Dolatabadi’s approval, the state-run [...]

Posted on 23 May 2010
22 May 2010 – Medya News – 13 Members of Congress urged the State Department to condemn increased human rights violations in Iran  in a letter prepared by the office of Congressman Bob Inglis (R-SC) sent on Friday to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
The letter draws the attention of the Department [...]

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran will abandon an offer to ship some of its uranium stockpile abroad if the United States imposes new sanctions, its parliament speaker said on Sunday.

World |  Politics
Iran is due to notify the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) on Monday of a deal struck last week with Brazil and Turkey which [...]

By MATTHEW LEE
The Associated Press
UNITED NATIONS — The United States has introduced a resolution backed by all veto-wielding members of the U.N. Security Council that would impose new sanctions against Iran.

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, May 18, 2010, before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on [...]

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Secretary of State Hillary Clinton testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, 18 May 2010, before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on the new START Treaty
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says the United States, Russia and China have reached an agreement on a draft resolution that would impose a fourth round of United [...]