The New York Times | May 19, 2010 By NEIL MacFARQUHAR and DAVID E. SANGER UNITED NATIONS — Buried in the sanctions resolution now being debated in the United Nations Security Council lies the possibility of a new effort to pressure Iran over its nuclear program: a call for countries to “exercise vigilance” in dealing [...]
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As Iran’s bid to join rights body fails, U.S. claims victory
After launching a behind-the-scenes campaign to block Iran’s election to the U.N.’s Human Right’s Council, Obama celebrates as Iran withdraws its candidacy, a victory for human rights efforts in Iran.
ABC EXCLUSIVE: Iran Nuclear Scientist Defects to U.S. In CIA ‘Intelligence Coup’
(ABC News) | March 30, 2010 By MATTHEW COLE Shahram Amiri Disappeared Last June in Saudi Arabia, Reportedly Now Resettled in the United States An award-winning Iranian nuclear scientist, who disappeared last year under mysterious circumstances, has defected to the CIA and been resettled in the United States, according to people briefed on the operation [...]
West softens proposed Iran sanctions
(Los Angeles Times) | March 26, 2010 The new tack by U.S. and Europe is an effort to win the support of Russia and China and gain broad international backing. By Paul Richter and Megan K. Stack Reporting from Washington and Moscow – U.S. and European officials considering new sanctions against Iran have decided to [...]
Regime Hoarding Gasoline, Reducing Consumption in Anticipation of US Sanctions
Gasoline Near Top of Iran’s Imports List: 150 Percent Increase in Gasoline Imports – Regime Hoarding Gasoline, Reducing Consumption in Anticipation of US Sanctions
Iranian leader accuses US of plotting against Iran
(BBC) | March 21, 2010 Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has used a televised Iranian New Year address to accuse the US of plotting against the country. He said the US government could not “talk about peace and friendship and at the same time plot and plan sedition”. His words come a day after [...]
House Passes Historic Norooz Resolution
(National Iranian American Council) | March 15, 2010 Washington, DC – The National Iranian American Council applauds the passage moments ago by the House of Representatives of H.Res.267, the Norooz Resolution, and commends Representative Mike Honda (D-CA) for championing this historic resolution. NIAC also expresses its warmest thanks and congratulations to the Iranian-American community for [...]
American and Iranian: 2 homelands at an impasse
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.
Beyond Sanctions: How to Solve the Iranian Riddle
(TIME) | March 15, 2010 By Trita Parsi Iran is the 21st century equivalent of 1930s Russia — a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. The Iranians haven’t stumbled upon this mystifying state coincidentally, and the enigma isn’t the result of outsiders’ failure to try to understand them. Rather, the Iranian government has [...]
Iran in Its Intricacy
(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 [...]
Selected Headlines – January 22, 2010
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 [...]
Iran opposition urges targeted sanctions against Tehran
(WashingtonTV) Updated: Friday, November 20, 2009 Iranian filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf said on Thursday that US President Barack Obama should increase his public support for Iran’s democratic movement, and intensify sanctions on Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps. Makhmalbaf, who has become a spokesperson outside of Iran for the main opposition movement, said that the movement supports [...]
Hardline Cleric Jannati: Iran’s struggle with America should continue
Fri Nov 13, 2009 10:39am EST TEHRAN (Reuters) – Iran must continue its struggle against the United States, a hardline cleric said on Friday a day after Washington renewed long-standing U.S. financial sanctions against Iran. U.S. President Barack Obama offered a new approach toward Iran when he took office in January, but Iran remains locked [...]
Clinton Says U.S. Wants ‘Civil,’ Diplomatic Iran Ties
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 [...]
Tehran Turmoil Clouds Prospects for Captive U.S. Hikers
By Andrew Lee Butters Thursday, Nov. 12, 2009 The three Americans arrested in July for illegally crossing the border into Iran could hardly have chosen a worse time to go hiking in the mountains of northern Iraq without a local guide. Though merely left-wing activists on an ill-conceived adventure, Shane Bauer (who is also a [...]
Obama renews some long-standing Iran sanctions
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama renewed some long-standing U.S. financial sanctions against Iran on Thursday, the White House said. Obama notified Congress that, as expected, he was extending a set of existing U.S. measures against Tehran for another year, saying “our relations with Iran have not yet returned to normal.” Click here to read [...]
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