Photo: AP 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 [...]

Reuters) – Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan flew to Tehran on Sunday seeking to seal a deal with Iran on a nuclear fuel swap that could help end a stand-off with the West over its atomic program. Erdogan will join Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva who has been in Tehran negotiating with Iranian [...]

  By Thomas Erdbrink Washington Post Foreign Service Sunday, May 16, 2010   TEHRAN — Brazilian and Turkish diplomats are trying to persuade Iranian leaders to deposit part of their uranium stockpile abroad in exchange for recognition of their controversial nuclear enrichment program, Brazilian foreign minister Celso Amorim said Saturday. U.S. officials have blessed the [...]

By EDITH M. LEDERER UNITED NATIONS — Negotiations on a U.S.-drafted resolution that would impose new sanctions against Iran for refusing to suspend its nuclear enrichment program are making “good progress,” U.S. Ambassador Susan Rice said Thursday. Diplomats familiar with the negotiations among six key powers said a draft resolution could be circulated to all [...]

  by Mark Dubowitz and Ilan Berman  The Senate Homeland Security Committee is scheduled to hold hearings today on companies that have provided Tehran with financial resources for its illicit nuclear program. These hearings aim to build on steps already taken by Congress to find a nonmilitary means to thwart Iran’s nuclear quest. Indeed, legislators [...]

  Farzad Kamangar was executed after a cursory trial. May 10, 2010 The brother of an activist hanged in Iran has blamed the country’s supreme leader for his death, RFE/RL’s Radio Farda reports. Farzad Kamangar was one of five activists executed in Tehran on May 9. His brother, Mehrdad Kamangar, spoke to Radio Farda via [...]

  Shirin Alam Holi, born in ۱۹٨۱ in a small village near Maku, executed in Evin Prison on May ۹th ۲۰۱۰ after passing one year and nine months in prison. She was charged with the issue cooperating with Pajak (Iranian branch of PKK) on Nov. ۲۹th ۲۰۰۹ and sentenced to death. Her lawyer and family [...]

  Iranian president provokes West once again, insists on making speech at nuclear NPT conference. Republicans, Jews, other groups make effort to prevent his visit, boycott his speech     WASHINGTON – The Iranian President’s visits to New York are always a cause for tension. Before arriving at the Big Apple for the nuclear Non-Proliferation [...]

  By Colum Lynch Washington Post  UNITED NATIONS — Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has requested a visa to travel next week to New York to address a U.N. conference aimed at stemming the spread of nuclear weapons, a move that sets the stage for a potential confrontation with Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton over [...]

  TEHRAN (AFP) – The wife of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has accused Western countries of using the United Nations to promote illicit affairs, the official IRNA news agency reported on Wednesday. “Westerners exploit the United Nations structure to promote illicit affairs,” Azam-ol-Sadat Farahi told a conference of Muslim women thinkers on Tuesday without elaborating. [...]