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 […]
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World Reacts To Iranian President’s No-Nuclear Pledge
Comments by Iranian President Hassan Rohani that his government would never develop nuclear weapons have sparked world reaction. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said Rohani’s comments on September 18 to U.S. NBC television were positive, but cautioned that “everything needs to be put to the test.” That message was echoed by White House […]
World Powers And Iran Meet For Nuclear Talks
World powers and Iran are holding a fresh round of talks on Tehran’s controversial nuclear program in Kazakhstan. European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton expressed “cautious optimism” ahead of the two-day meeting in Almaty, which started on April 5. Iran’s chief nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalil said the chances of a breakthrough hinge on […]
Iran’s rampant inflation called sixth-worst in world
Reports from The Centre for Research of the Islamic Parliament and news agencies inside Iran claim that, unlike many other countries in the world that have been able to curb their economic difficulties and their double-digit inflation, Iran is shouldering its worst inflation in the past 17 years with the […]
“Iranian Mothers for Peace” Alert the World on Sanctions and Shortage of Medicines
“Iranian Mothers for Peace,” in an open letter of January 2013 to Mr. Ban Ki-moon, the UN Secretary General, and Dr. Margaret Chan, the Director General of the World Heath Organization, have alerted the responsible world bodies and human rights organizations to the critical shortage of vital medication due to […]
Gholamreza Takhti: Iranian World Champion Wrestler
A glorious career, a generous soul, and a mysterious death. Certain popular figures live on for centuries in Iranians’ minds and hearts, from the legendary Rostam, Sohrab, and Esfandiar of Abolghasem Ferdowsi’s epic Shahnameh (Book of Kings), to the ancient Persian king Cyrus the Great, to Mirza Taghi Khan […]
No Celebration of 2012 World Human Rights Day in Iran
Every year on December 10, countries around the world honor World Human Rights Day. This year, the United Nation’s focus was the right to all people “to make their voices heard in public life and be included in political decision-making.
Iran greets outcry over Web squeeze with fresh promises for Tehran-centric cyber world
Iran’s cyber monitors often tout their fight against the West’s “soft war” of influence through the Web, but trying to block Google’s popular Gmail appeared to be a swipe too far. Complaints piled up — even from email-starved parliament members — and forced authorities Sunday to double down on their promises to create […]
42,000 Computers Will Be Isolated From the World
As the slow speed of the Internet in Iran last week brought forth complaints by computer users who also expressed fears over the government’s measures to fully control their access to the internet, the country’s minister of communications announced that the project known as “national internet” would be launched next week and […]
World powers to discuss Iran in New York
The European Union’s foreign policy chief has announced that representatives of the world powers will meet next week in New York to discuss ways of pushing forward with the negotiations over Iran’s nuclear program.