By Thomas Erdbrink Washington Post Foreign Service Wednesday, April 21, 2010 TEHRAN — Facing increasing momentum behind a U.S.-backed bid for new sanctions against it, Iran is launching a broad diplomatic offensive aimed at persuading as many U.N. Security Council members as possible to oppose tougher punishment for its nuclear program. Iran wants to focus [...]
By Elahe Amani The Islamic Republic of Iran, in a provocative act, has announced its candidacy for the United Nation Human Rights Council, a UN organization based in Geneva. The candidacy of Iran comes at a time that during the last 10 months, Iranians are experiencing one of the darkest periods of human rights violations since 1979 [...]
The Senate has already appointed conferees for the Iran sanctions bill, but the House has not. People on the Senate side continue to believe that House Foreign Affairs Chairman Howard Berman, D-CA, is holding up on appointing conferees to stall the conference as a favor to the administration, but Berman’s office denies that.
By Ladane Nasseri April 14 (Bloomberg) — A mother kisses her dead 19-year- old son, weeps and embraces him one last time. Her grief overwhelms her as his body is lowered into its grave — another Iranian victim of protests after last year’s presidential election. The footage of a cemetery near Tehran on YouTube is [...]
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Big power envoys said they held constructive talks on Wednesday over new U.N. sanctions to try to halt Iran’s nuclear program, but diplomats forecast weeks of haggling over a text the Security Council can pass. World | China | Russia “We got into the substance. We are moving forward and we’ll have, of course, other [...]
The Voice of America is becoming the Voice of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Recent programming choices have revealed a creeping bias toward opponents of the pro-democracy movement and de facto supporters of the regime.
By Ethan Cole The two Iranian female converts to Christianity, who were released in November, will again appear before a judge next Tuesday, an Iran-focused Christian ministry reported. Maryam Rostampour, 27, and Marzieh Amirizadeh, 30, were summoned for a court hearing on April 13. According to Elam Ministries, which has been following their case from [...]
Edward Yeranian | Cairo09 April 2010 Photo: AP Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, after unveiling a third generation of domestically built centrifuge, 09 Apr 2010 Iran announced Friday that is had developed a new, faster generation of centrifuges for uranium enrichment, signaling its determination to press on with its nuclear work despite possible new sanctions being [...]
Asset Freezes Net Only Small Sums as U.N. Weighs New Ones to Fight Nuclear Program By STEVE STECKLOW In its latest proposed set of tougher United Nations sanctions on Iran, the U.S. is again relying on asset freezes as one tool to pressure the country not to build nuclear weapons. But a close look at [...]