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Iran rejects nuclear deal, MP says

Al Jazeera. | Al Jazeera | Posted 11.07.2009 | Home


Politician's remarks are not Tehran's official response to uranium swap, official says....

ANALYSIS / How Israel's war with Iran will be fought

Haaretz. | Haaretz | Posted 11.06.2009 | Home


It is precisely from the events of the passing week, which culminated in an impressive show of force reminiscent of the good old Israel Defense...

Tehran: Embassy Occupation Anniversary May See Fresh Protests

TIME | Robin Wright | Posted 11.02.2009 | World


A new showdown looms in Iran this week, as the regime and its intrepid opposition gear up for what may be their biggest street confrontation since the...

U.S. likely to continue engaging Iran toward nuclear deal

Haaretz. | Haaretz | Posted 10.31.2009 | Home


Washington is expected to continue to engage Tehran toward a deal on Iran's nuclear program, according to both government sources and American sources...

Ahmadinejad: Israel unhappy with Iran nuclear negotiations

Haaretz. | Haaretz | Posted 10.31.2009 | Home


Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Saturday that Israel and other domineering aren't pleased with the fact that Iran was negotiating its nu...

Ahmadinejad: Israel unhappy with nuclear negotiations

Haaretz. | Haaretz | Posted 10.31.2009 | Home


Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Saturday that Israel and other domineering aren't pleased with the fact that Iran was negotiating its nu...

Israelis Brace Themselves For War With Iran

wsj.com | YOSSI KLEIN HALEVI | Posted 10.30.2009 | World


The postcard from the Home Front Command that recently arrived in my mailbox looks like an ad from the Ministry of Tourism. A map of Israel is divided...

New York Times: Iran rejects UN nuclear draft deal

Haaretz. | Haaretz | Posted 10.30.2009 | Home


The New York Times reported late Thursday that Iran rejected the proposal to ship most of the country's uranium abroad for enrichment in an attempt to...

Netanyahu: Iran nuclear draft a `positive first step`

Haaretz. | Haaretz | Posted 10.30.2009 | Home


Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday offered cautious praise of a U.S.-backed, United Nations-drafted deal to curb Iran's contentious nuclear p...

Full Show: October 29, 2009

WorldFocus.org | WorldFocus.org | Posted 10.29.2009 | Home


(View full post to see video) Watch the show from Thursday, October 29: Iran’s nuclear strategy, Afghan runoff election issues and Russia’...

UN chief: IAEA inspection of Iran nuke site a positive step

Haaretz. | Haaretz | Posted 10.28.2009 | Home


United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Wednesday welcomed as 'a positive step' Iran's decision to allow UN nuclear inspectors access to a rec...

Iran TV: Tehran to respond to nuclear draft deal on Thursday

Haaretz. | Haaretz | Posted 10.28.2009 | Home


Iran's envoy to the United Nations nuclear watchdog agency will present Tehran's position on a draft nuclear fuel deal in Vienna on Thursday, the semi...

Timothy Garton Ash: Facts Are Subversive

FORA.tv | FORA.tv | Posted 10.27.2009 | Home


Timothy Garton Ash: Facts Are Subversive One of Britain's most influential and admired commentators presents his latest volume of dispatches from a t...

Iran hails Turkey's nuclear support

Al Jazeera. | Al Jazeera | Posted 10.27.2009 | Home


Iranian president thanks Turkish PM as he arrives for bilateral talks. ...

Iran To Accept UN Nuclear Deal

BBC NEWS | Posted 10.27.2009 | World


Iran will accept a UN deal on its nuclear programme, but only if "very important changes" are made, Iranian state media have reported....

Iran: World can't block our atomic program while Israel has nukes

Haaretz. | Haaretz | Posted 10.27.2009 | Home


Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Tuesday that as long as Israel was in possession of atomic weapons, the world could not halt Iran's nucl...

Cries for Democracy in Iran

Reza Pahlavi | Posted 10.27.2009 | World


Reza Pahlavi

The Iran issue is not about nuclear capabilities, but rather, whose finger is on the trigger. And currently, that finger belongs to a Holocaust-denying, brutal regime that kills its own people.

Iran may ship 'part' of its uranium abroad

AP | ALI AKBAR DAREINI | Posted 10.26.2009 | Home


TEHRAN, Iran — Iran's foreign minister said Monday that Tehran may agree to ship part of its stockpile of low enriched uranium abroad for further enrichment, the first official indication that Iran could at least partly sign onto a U.N.-drafted plan aimed at easing nuclear tensions.

The plan is seen by the international community as a way to delay Iran's ability to build a nuclear weapon by getting a large part of its enriched uranium stock out of the country, preventing it from being reworked into a warhead. Iran says its nuclear program is solely for peaceful purposes.

Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said Tehran's final decision over the plan will "will be made in the next few days."

As an alternative to the U.N. plan, Mottaki said Iran was weighing whether to buy enriched uranium abroad and keep its own supply. The fuel is needed for a research reactor that makes medical isotopes.

"To supply fuel, we may purchase it like in the past, or we may deliver part of (the low enriched uranium) fuel which we currently don't need," Mottaki said.

Pakistan arrests 11 Iranians close to border

AP | ABDUL SATTAR | Posted 10.26.2009 | Home


QUETTA, Pakistan — Pakistan arrested 11 Iranians on Monday after they shot at a vehicle carrying smugglers on the Pakistani side of the border, officials said.

The incident came amid tensions over a recent suicide attack that Tehran alleges was carried out by militants sheltering inside Pakistan and supported by its intelligence officials.

Pakistani officials initially identified the men as members of Iran's powerful Revolutionary Guard, but later said most were regular border guards. One official said three senior officers among the detainees probably belonged to the elite unit.

Iran's Press TV carried what it described as a statement from the guard condemning the arrests, but saying that the 11 were not its members. The report cited "informed" sources as saying the 11 were "border guards hunting fuel smugglers (who) accidentally entered Pakistan."

In an attempt to boost security in the region, Iran in April put the Revolutionary Guard directly in control of Sistan-Baluchistan province. Its officers typically take the lead in any operations on Iran's border.

France FM: Israel will strike Iran without nuke deal

Haaretz. | Haaretz | Posted 10.26.2009 | Home


Israel will launch a pre-emptive strike against Iran's nuclear program if the West does not reach a deal with the Islamic Republic on uranium enrichme...

Iran arrests 12 accused of promoting satanism

Haaretz. | Haaretz | Posted 10.25.2009 | Home


Twelve people accused of promoting Satanism have been arrested in northwest Iran, a newspaper reported on Sunday. ......

EU official: Israel out of loop on Iran talks

Haaretz. | Haaretz | Posted 10.22.2009 | Home


A senior European Union official told Israeli officials this week that Israel is not privy to the details of the exchanges between Iran and the...

Jobs and common language lure Afghan migrants to Iran

WorldFocus.org | WorldFocus.org | Posted 10.22.2009 | Home


Bigan Saliani, who was born in Iran, traveled to Tehran for Worldfocus to report on Afghan refugees there. He writes here about why he felt t...

Behind the Story: Afghan refugees in Iran

WorldFocus.org | WorldFocus.org | Posted 10.22.2009 | Home


Bigan Saliani, who was born in Iran,  reported from Tehran for Worldfocus on the little-known story of Afghan refugees there.  Here is his ...

Iran, Israel attend secret nuclear meet in Cairo

Haaretz. | Haaretz | Posted 10.22.2009 | Home


Israeli and Iranian representatives recently took part in a conference in Cairo on nuclear non-proliferation in the Middle East, the Israel Atomic Ene...