Topic: Iran

Support for Iran rallies 'cannot be justified'

Iran's European Union envoy hit out Thursday at international backing for supporters of defeated presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi, saying it " cannot be justified. ""The foreign support for these trouble-makers and anarchists under the cover of supporting democracy and the voice ...
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Wednesday defended a US request to Twitter to postpone a planned maintenance shutdown as a way to allow Iranians to speak out and organize. "The United States believes passionately and strongly in the basic principle of ...

US rejects Iran's 'interfering' claims

The United States Wednesday rejected Iranian claims it was interfering the post-election tumult, saying President Barack Obama would raise concerns about, but not meddle in, Iranian politics. "You know, this is a debate about Iranians and about Iran's future. ""It's up to ...

Shah's son sees echoes of 1979 in Iran

The son of Iran's late shah said Monday he saw echoes of the 1979 Islamic Revolution that overthrew his father as massive crowds took to the streets against the disputed re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. "I think the climate that we see ...

Brave words for a new peace with the Muslim world

Just before Barack Obama walked up the lectern in Cairo to give his much-trailed address on the future direction of American relations with the Muslim world, at the other end of the Middle East, in Iran, the Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was delivering ...

Obama makes US look weak, critics on right say

US President Barack Obama made the United States look weak when he failed to stand up to Arab tyranny and Iran in his speech to Arabs and Muslims, US critics from the right charged Thursday.House Republican Minority Leader John Boehner welcomed the ...

Reporter Saberi thanks Clinton for pushing Iran

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Freed U.S.-Iranian reporter Roxana Saberi thanked U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in person on Wednesday for pressing Iran to release her from a Tehran jail where she was held on charges of spying.With her parents and Clinton at ...

Absurd Fun

Due to its peerless seriousness, few subjects are as rife with satirical possibility as nuclear weapons. The title character Stewart Banquo is a classic character of espionage fiction. The assassin-to-be, Peter Johnson, is a ruddy-faced, Oxford educated, alcoholic, "morally bankrupt," cantankerous English ...

US to reassure Arabs on diplomacy with Iran

US Defense Secretary Robert Gates said he will seek to reassure Saudi and Egyptian leaders this week that Washington's diplomatic approach to Iran will not jeopardize long-standing ties to Arab states in the region.Speaking to reporters aboard his plane ahead of a ...

US seeks to reassure Arabs on diplomacy with Iran

US Defense Secretary Robert Gates said he will seek to reassure Saudi and Egyptian leaders this week that Washington's diplomatic approach to Iran will not jeopardize long-standing ties to Arab states in the region.Speaking to reporters aboard his plane ahead of a ...