(The Newest Deal) | March 12, 2010
Masoud Shafaee
As the Persian Nowruz New Year fast approaches and Iran’s post-election crisis enters its ninth month, Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani remains as mercurial a figure as ever in Iranian politics. True to his nickname of Kooseh, or “The Shark,” Rafsanjani has been paying lip-service to Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei [...]

Hillary Clinton Addresses Iranian Women:

(The New York Times) | March 7, 2010
By MARK LANDLER
WASHINGTON — Seeking to exploit the Internet’s potential for prying open closed societies, the Obama administration will permit technology companies to export online services like instant messaging, chat and photo sharing to Iran, Cuba and Sudan, a senior administration official said Sunday.
On Monday, he said, the [...]

Channel 4 News (UK), January 22
Neda’s death ‘ignited an awakening’ in Iran

Neda Agha Soltan’s fiance, Caspian Makan: “The 23 January is Neda’s precious birthday. Neda will be 27 on that day. I felt that this should be marked in the world.
“I’ve asked the people of Iran, wherever they may be, in whichever corner of the [...]

By Indira A.R. Lakshmanan
Nov. 10 (Bloomberg) — The U.S. wants a “civil, diplomatic relationship” with Iran and has told the regime that possessing a nuclear weapon isn’t in the nation’s best interests, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said.
President Barack Obama conveyed that message to Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Hoseini Khamenei, Clinton said in an [...]

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has warned that Iran faces “very tough sanctions” if it rejects offers of engagement over its nuclear programme.

President Barack Obama “is deeply disappointed at this news,” his spokesman Robert Gibbs said.

Correspondents say the case will have serious implications for US-Iranian relations at a time when Mr Obama has reached out to the Tehran.

TEHRAN, Iran (CNN) — A U.S. journalist in Iran was sentenced to eight years in prison for espionage, her father, lawyer and news reports said Saturday — a sentence that prompted denunciation from the United States.

Reports in Iranian media, including an Iranian judiciary source quoted Saturday by the semi-official Iranian Students News Agency, confirmed the sentence of Roxana Saberi, a 31-year-old Iranian-American from North Dakota.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said she was “deeply disappointed” by the news.