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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

They’ve watched President Obama’s humiliating attempts to appease Iran, as every rejected overture is met with abjectly renewed U.S. negotiating offers. American acquiescence reached such a point that the president was late, hesitant…

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.

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 [...]

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 [...]

Three words best define the policies of the United States toward Iran in the past 32 years: naiveté, surprise and failure. Ironically however, the rest of the world has been looking to the US for guidance and leadership on how to deal with the Iranian regime. The US policy towards Iran has been a failure.

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 [...]