As the U.S. and its world partners race to reach a nuclear deal with Iran, women and children in the Islamic republic struggle under harsh, discriminatory laws despite numerous calls for reform from human rights groups and the international community. Last year, several women in the Iranian city of Isfahan were severely burned in […]
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White House Warns Senate Republicans To Stop Interfering With Iran Talks
The White House has issued a new warning to the Republicans in the U.S. Senate to stay out of negotiations with Iran over its nuclear program. White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough told the Republican Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Corker in a letter on March 14 that legislation he is sponsoring […]
Report Says Obama Plans Saudi Visit Amid Tensions Over Iran
A prominent U.S. newspaper is reporting that U.S. President Barack Obama is planning to travel to Saudi Arabia in March in an attempt to smooth tensions with the kingdom over U.S. policy on Iran and Syria. “The Wall Street Journal,” quoting Saudi officials, reported on January 31 that Obama is preparing to meet with […]
Congress Backs Off Iran Sanctions After Veto Threat
U.S. President Barack Obama appears to have prevailed, for now, in his campaign to stop Congress from imposing new sanctions against Iran while a diplomatic initiative on Tehran’s nuclear program is under way. Obama announced in his State of the Union address on January 28 that he would veto any legislation imposing fresh sanctions […]
In Annual Address, Obama Attacks Rich-Poor Divide, Maps Out Afghan And Iran Plans
President Barack Obama has used his annual State of the Union address to announce what he called “concrete, practical proposals” to reduce the gap between rich and poor in the United States. He has also touted progress under his administration in bringing America “closer to energy independence than we’ve been in decades” and pushed […]
Obama To Veto Any New Iran Sanctions
The White House has vowed that President Barack Obama will veto any legislation imposing new U.S. sanctions on Iran. The threat was issued December 19 after 26 senators – or more than one-quarter of the Senate – introduced new Iranian sanctions legislation. The measure, backed by 13 Republicans and 13 lawmakers from Obama’s Democratic […]
Mandela funeral to bring together world’s most powerful people
Political and cultural elite set to attend funeral where Mandela’s spirit of reconciliation may offer backdrop to unusual meetingsWorld leaders are preparing to converge in unprecedented numbers on South Africa for Nelson Mandela‘s funeral, likely to be one of the biggest global gatherings of powerful people in modern history. As South Africa embarked on nine […]
Internal Opposition Contained With the Talks
With the passage of 5 days since Hassan Rowhani and Barack Obama held a 15 minute telephone conversation and the absence of any reaction by the supreme leader of Iran regarding Rowhani’s trip to New York and his telephone chat with the US president, political observers believe that critics have been quietly contained. The […]
Next Step: Face Meeting Between Heads of Iran and the US
Daughter of head of the Expediency Council Faezeh Hashemi tells Rooz that the telephone conversation between Hassan Rowhani and Barak Obama can result in a face-to-face meeting between the leaders of the two countries. In an exclusive interview with Rooz, Faezeh said that if the current course between the two countries did not suffer […]
Iran To Consider Resuming Flights To U.S.
Iranian President Hassan Rohani has ordered aviation authorities to study the possibility of resuming direct flights between Iran and the United States for the first time in more than three decades. Iranian news agencies on September 30 quoted presidential adviser Akbar Torkan as saying Rohani wanted to study the option of resuming flights in […]