U.S. should heed Russia, include Iran in Syria talks
Source: War In Context
Tehrān :: Iran | updated 2013-05-18 08:43:53 -0700 | disasters-news
Secretary of State John Kerry, appearing on Wednesday, May 15, at a press conference in Sweden with counterparts from Sweden and Russia, stood silently while Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov emphasized the need to mobilize support for new peace talks...
US-led 41 navies press...
Source: Arab News
Tehrān :: Iran | updated 2013-05-16 14:14:27 -0700 | disasters-news
Divers leap from a helicopter into the Gulf's choppy waters to destroy a mine, while a US marine fires at a floating target, as forces from 41 countries gathered for naval manoeuvres facing Iran's shores. The mine-sweeping exercise is being...
Leak investigations are an assault on the press, and on democracy, too
Source: War In Context
Tehrān :: Iran | updated 2013-05-16 06:32:22 -0700 | disasters-news
They need to be able to protect those sources and sometimes offer them confidentiality. If they can't be sure about that and it looks increasingly like they can't the sources will dry up...Sad to say, that seems to be exactly...
Why sanctions on Iran are not working
Source: War In Context
Tehrān :: Iran | updated 2013-05-16 18:39:23 -0700 | disasters-news
Although some policymakers and pundits privately concede this point, there is no consensus as to why. Hardliners tend to argue that sanctions are not tough enough and must be intensified. Elements on the left argue that sanctions must be given...
U.S. Policy Toward Iran
Source: Scoop
Tehrān :: Iran | updated 2013-05-16 03:39:13 -0700 | disasters-news
Committee Washington, DC May 15, 2013 Chairman Menendez, Ranking Member Corker, distinguished Members of the Committee: Thank you for inviting me here today to discuss the Administration's approach to the multiple challenges posed by Iran by its nuclear ambitions, its...
Netanyahu told Assad: I'm ready to discuss Golan withdrawal, if you cut Iran, Hezbollah ties
Source: War In Context
Tehrān :: Iran | updated 2013-05-14 07:46:58 -0700 | disasters-news
The indirect talks that were undertaken with American mediation did not yield results, however, and were abandoned by Israel in March 2011 after the extent of the rebellion against the Assad regime became clear. Israeli newspaper Yediot Aharonot revealed for...
Republicans are mad about Benghazi — wherever it is
Source: War In Context
Tehrān :: Iran | updated 2013-05-14 07:47:00 -0700 | disasters-news
Republicans are mad about Benghazi wherever it is by News Sources on May 14, 2013 Public Policy Polling : 41% [of Republicans polled] say they consider this to be the biggest political scandal in American history to only 43% who...
Nick Turse: Israel, Iran, and the nuclear freight train
Source: War In Context
Tehrān :: Iran | updated 2013-05-13 18:29:40 -0700 | disasters-news
During the Cold War, the two superpowers, the U.S. and the Soviet Union, relied on a strategy that used to be termed, without irony, mutual assured destruction or MAD. Its intent was simple enough: to hold off a planetary holocaust...
An interview with Pankaj Mishra
Source: War In Context
Tehrān :: Iran | updated 2013-05-12 08:24:45 -0700 | disasters-news
People like al-Afghani, Liang, and Tagore were responding, in another era of globalization, to the growing predominance of a mode of political economy vindicated by the great power of the West and to the increasing violence and suffering of non-Western...
Likud MK says Israel to decide on Iran attack in 2014
Source: Yedioth Ahronoth
Tehrān :: Iran | updated 2013-05-09 12:47:38 -0700 | disasters-news
Breaking News Knesset Member Tzachi Hanegbi (Likud) said during a visit to Washington that an Israeli decision regarding an attack in Iran will not be made before 2014. Hanegbi added that no Israeli prime minister can depend on an American...
The Horror of Guantanamo
Source: Salem News
Tehrān :: Iran | updated 2013-05-09 11:17:12 -0700 | disasters-news
Imagine being imprisoned in a foreign country for years without being charged with a crime. Your family at home is frantic not knowing how you are being treated or even if you are still alive. This begins to describe the...
Iran warns against "provocation" in Gulf anti-mine drill
Source: Zawya Political
Tehrān :: Iran | updated 2013-05-07 06:06:28 -0700 | disasters-news
Iran Tuesday warned against any "provocations" in the Gulf as a U.S.-led international naval force began a massive minesweeping exercise. "Any movement in the region will be fully monitored by our defence forces," foreign ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast told reporters...
Iran/Iraq: Effort to Clarify Fate of Missing from 1980s War
Source: Scoop
Tehrān :: Iran | updated 2013-05-06 19:44:49 -0700 | disasters-news
Near and Middle East chairing this meeting. "The committee is still hard at work, but it faces many challenges in its search for human remains in an extremely harsh environment." At the meeting, the committee will review the results of...
Broken Elevators Separate Lawyers and Clients at Jail
Source: The New York Times
Tehrān :: Iran | updated 2013-05-06 17:10:39 -0700 | disasters-news
Jail's Broken Elevators Delay High-Profile Sentencing Published: May 6, 2013 There are all sorts of reasons, legitimate and otherwise, why a trial or court proceeding might be delayed. But seldom does a high-profile sentencing in Manhattan get waylaid by something...
Embassy to help kin of two Iranians appeal ruling
Source: Daily Nation
Tehrān :: Iran | updated 2013-05-05 12:38:47 -0700 | disasters-news
The Iranian embassy in Kenya will help families of two men convicted of terror activities by a Nairobi court last week to appeal. The country's ambassador, Mr Malik Hussein Givzad, said the embassy would help the families of Sayed Mansour...
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