So, we can’t force Iran out of its nuclear intentions, whatever they are. Pragmatism might prompt Iranian leaders to abandon their current course, but that seems unlikely at this point, as, internally, doing so would certainly be taken as a sign of weakness. Approaching Iran as an autonomous state — one with the same rights as ours (energy, weapons, and all) — is the only way to get beyond this impasse.

(The New York Times) | March 4, 2010
By Roger Cohen
PARIS — A year has passed since President Obama’s groundbreaking Nowruz offer to Iran of engagement based on mutual respect. Iran is now a different country, its divided regime weaker and confronted by the Green movement, the strongest expression of people power in the Middle East [...]

(Globe and Mail) | February 20, 2010
PAUL KORING
Agency says for the first time that Tehran may be building a nuclear warhead, raising the spectre of the imposition of new sanctions
Iran won’t come clean about its nuclear program, the UN’s atomic watchdog agency concludes in a new report that is certain to raise the stakes in [...]

Khordaad 88, February 2
Mir Hossein Mousavi ’s Interview with Kaleme
Kaleme reports that in this interview which took place close to February 11th [22 of Bahman], the 31st anniversary of the Islamic revolution, Mousavi stated that the main reason for the collapse of the dictatorial and unpopular regime of the Shah was its illegitimacy [in the [...]

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(New York Times)
By STEVEN ERLANGER
Published: November 20, 2009
PARIS — Senior officials from Western powers discussed the possibility of new sanctions on Iran on Friday for flouting the United Nations Security Council’s demands and expressed disappointment that Iran had not yet accepted a draft agreement to export most of its enriched uranium for nuclear fuel.
The [...]

By Daniel Dombey in Washington
November 17 2009
Barack Obama, the US president, on Tuesday sought to convince China to increase pressure on Iran’s nuclear programme – but received no public commitment that Beijing would support sanctions.
After meeting Hu Jintao, China’s president, Mr Obama said both had agreed Iran “must provide assurances to the international community that [...]

Iran’s president has said that discussions over his country’s nuclear programme are “finished” and Tehran will neither back down nor negotiate further.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Monday that Tehran’s nuclear plans were an issue of rights, declaring that the country’s uranium enrichment efforts would continue.
“From our view point [discussion of] our nuclear issue is finished … [...]

By NAZILA FATHI
Published: April 15, 2009

TEHRAN — President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran said Wednesday that he was preparing a new proposal to resolve disputes with the West over Iran’s nuclear program, opening the door to talks with the United States, the official I.R.N.A. news agency reported.

By Robert Mackey

The trial of Roxana Saberi, an Iranian-American who has been charged with spying for the United States, began on Monday in Tehran, according to a report by the Iranian state news agency IRNA. Ms. Saberi was arrested in January after her press credentials had expired and Iran called her subsequent reports “illegal.”