Iran may ban candidates who seek ties with US
Source: Boston.com
Tehrān :: Iran | updated 2013-05-17 05:46:12 -0700 | political-news
Iran (AP) The head of Iran's constitutional watchdog says it may disqualify candidates in June presidential elections who seek full relations with the United States. Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati, secretary of the Guardian Council that vets candidates, said Friday on state...
Bahraini security forces raid top cleric's house
Source: Qatar English Daily
Tehrān :: Iran | updated 2013-05-17 05:45:12 -0700 | political-news
Bahraini security forces raided the house of top Shi'ite cleric Ayatollah Sheikh Isa Qassim on Friday, the opposition said, an act likely to enrage the island's majority Shi'ite population which is at loggerheads with its Sunni rulers...Fifth Fleet has its...
European nations urged to boycott U.N. disarmament body chaired by Iran
Source: Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Tehrān :: Iran | updated 2013-05-17 05:39:28 -0700 | political-news
A Dutch group monitoring rights in Iran urged the Netherlands and other European nations to join the United States and Canada in boycotting a U.N. forum on disarmament that will be chaired by the Islamic Republic...Conference on Disarmament comes at...
SOBHANI: Standing steadfast with Bahrain
Source: The Washington Times
Qom :: Iran | updated 2013-05-17 04:24:40 -0700 | political-news
As Washington surveys the landscape of the Middle East in the aftermath of the Arab Spring, it becomes clear that the ensuing chaos resembles something closer to a long, harsh winter than a hopeful beginning...Nowhere in the region are the...
UN nuclear talks with Iran fail to end deadlock ...
Source: Pak Tribune
Tehrān :: Iran | updated 2013-05-17 01:08:16 -0700 | political-news
The United Nations' nuclear agency failed to persuade Iran on Wednesday to let it resume an investigation into suspected atomic bomb research, leaving the high-stakes diplomacy in deadlock. Deputy Director General Herman Nackaerts said after the eight-hour meeting, referring to...
Canada takes hard line against Iran as election looms
Source: Fox
Tehrān :: Iran | updated 2013-05-16 14:48:12 -0700 | political-news
Published May 16, 2013 FoxNews.com The loudest voice railing against the Iranian regime from North America is Canada's. The conservative administration of Prime Minister Stephen Harper has taken a hard-line stance against Iran as the Islamic Republic's June elections approach,...
Canada takes hard line against Iranian regime as elections loom
Source: Fox News
Tehrān :: Iran | updated 2013-05-16 14:16:42 -0700 | political-news
Published May 16, 2013 FoxNews.com The loudest voice railing against the Iranian regime from North America is Canada's. The conservative administration of Prime Minister Stephen Harper has taken a hard-line stance against Iran as the Islamic Republic's June elections approach,...
Obama's tapped-out trust
Source: Washington Post
Tehrān :: Iran | updated 2013-05-16 13:33:48 -0700 | political-news
John Boehner's selective accountability Liberalism's agenda has been constant since long before liberals, having given their name a bad name, stopped calling themselves liberals and resumed calling themselves progressives, which they will call themselves until they finish giving that name...
Scales and yardsticks
Source: Jerusalem Post
Tehrān :: Iran | updated 2013-05-16 13:18:17 -0700 | political-news
But we face enemies who seem to adhere to no moral scale or code." Hezbollah supporters march in Beirut's suburbs Photo: Archive As I listen to Iranian and Hezbollah leaders deliver their dark and dismal speeches, I often wonder: Do...
Hezbollah's Qassem calls for end to Muslim rifts
Source: The Daily Star
Tehrān :: Iran | updated 2013-05-16 09:32:56 -0700 | political-news
Hezbollah's deputy leader Sheikh Naim Qassem called Thursday for an intensive dialogue between Sunni and Shiite scholars in Muslim countries in an attempt to end political and sectarian rifts between the two sects. Addressing a conference on Muslim unity held...
Intel, missiles top U.S.-Russian issues
Source: United Press International
Tehrān :: Iran | updated 2013-05-16 08:08:15 -0700 | political-news
Missile defense and intelligence sharing are issues the Russian government is considering with the United States, a Russian government aide said...President Barack Obama in response to a message delivered last month by U.S. national security adviser Tom Donilon .
Iranian cleric: Women can't be president in Iran
Source: The Boston Globe
Tehrān :: Iran | updated 2013-05-16 15:08:38 -0700 | political-news
Iran (AP) A member of Iran's constitutional watchdog says women cannot be presidential candidates, effectively killing the longshot bids by about 30 women seeking to run in the June 14 election. Even before Thursday's comments by Ayatollah Mohammad Yazdi, chances...
Risch, State Department official discuss Boise pastor's case
Source: The Idaho Statesman
Tehrān :: Iran | updated 2013-05-15 15:49:00 -0700 | political-news
Abedini has been in Iran's Evin Prison for more than 200 days following his conviction for "threatening the national security of Iran" for his involvement in Christian home churches from 2000 to 2005. On Wednesday, Sen. Jim Risch, R-Idaho, spoke...
Iran's conservatives divided over presidential candidates
Source: Washington Post
Tehrān :: Iran | updated 2013-05-15 13:27:52 -0700 | political-news
The final list of candidates will not be known until May 23 after the Guardian Council, a powerful body tasked with vetting candidates, completes its process. But the aspirants include at least two prominent hopefuls the mayor of Tehran and...
IAEA says nuclear talks with Iran failed
Source: The Courier-Mail
Tehrān :: Iran | updated 2013-05-15 17:22:00 -0700 | political-news
And a date for the next meeting is still to be set," the inspector added. Iranian officials to grant access to sites, documents and scientists involved in Tehran's alleged efforts to develop atomic weapons. The agency says that there is...
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