President Barack Obama is mulling a meeting Tuesday at the United Nations with Iranian leader Hassan Rouhani. They will also both be present at a private luncheon held for heads of state by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, and Secretary of
On Tuesday, President Obama will address the UN General Assembly for the fifth time. Year after year, he apologizes to the assembled–comprised primarily of non-democratic states–for any offense caused by his predecessors. He then promises to dilute America’s moral leadership
The White House would not rule out Monday a meeting between US President Barack Obama and Iran’s new President Hassan Rowhani on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly. But US Secretary of State John Kerry will attend a meeting
President Barack Obama’s possible meeting with Iranian president Hassan Rouhani at the opening of the United Nations on Tuesday is being hailed by the mainstream media as a diplomatic breakthrough. In fact, it is a U.S. surrender, one that lends
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French President Francois Hollande will meet his Iranian counterpart Hassan Rowhani on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly next week, Hollande’s office announced Friday. The announcement comes amid growing signs the recently-elected Rowhani could also meet with US President
Iranian President Hassan Rowhani said Thursday in a column for The Washington Post that his government was ready to “help facilitate dialogue” between the Syrian government and the opposition.
NBC News’ Ann Curry interviewed Iran’s new president, Hassan Rouhani…
The United States government may be about to take possession of a Manhattan skyscraper worth more than $500 million after a federal judge found its owners knowingly served as fronts for the Iranian government. The order granting what prosecutors describe
The White House said Tuesday that US President Barack Obama will play host to Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Washington at the end of the month. The US official said the two leaders would discuss progress on final status
By NASSER KARIMI and BRIAN MURPHYAssociated PressTEHRAN, IranWord of the opening of Iran’s blocked social media sites was spread, of course, by social media itself: in celebratory tweets and breathless Facebook posts. Hours later, the same sites Tuesday chewed over
Middle East affairs are as chaotic and anarchic as ever. Syria is in the midst of a civil war. In Egypt, Muslim brotherhood forces have taken to the streets, waging a holy war on the Coptic Christian community. Iran is
TEHRAN, Sept. 16 (UPI) — An overhaul to one of Iran’s largest natural gas processing facilities will help boost production exponentially, a director said Monday. Hosain Norozi, managing director of the Parsian gas processing plant, said maintenance and construction at
In foreign policy as in much else, President Barack Obama has relied on words rather than actions. So it is difficult to take seriously his threat, expressed in an interview Friday with ABC News that aired Sunday on This Week,
On Sunday, President Obama joined ABC’s This Week to discuss the threat of Iranian nuclear development, and emphasized that he had not taken force off the table: “I think what the Iranians understand is that the nuclear issue is a
“A Plea for Caution From Russia”; That was the title of my op-ed, published in Thursday’s New York Times. Yes, the op-ed that went right into Barack Obama’s face. I started the op-ed by talking up the importance of peace. As
The Miss World beauty contest, which has attracted fierce opposition by hardline Islamic groups in host country Indonesia, is now facing another challenge — a rival pageant exclusively for Muslims. The Muslimah World contest to be held on Wednesday in
Oct 22, 2012 President Barack Obama and Republican candidate Mitt Romney Romney: “Excuse me. It’s a geopolitical foe, and I said in the same — in the same paragraph I said, and Iran is the greatest national security threat we
Putin is a strongman at home and a bad actor on the international stage. He is also diabolically clever. Yesterday, in an op-ed published by the NY Times, the Russian tough guy known for judo and shirtless horseback riding claimed
Iran has been emboldened by Washington’s decision to hold fire on launching military strikes against its key ally Syria, which has also boosted Tehran’s position on its controversial nuclear drive, experts say. Iran’s conservative press trumpeted as a “humiliating blow”
Destroying Syria’s chemical weapons under a Russian plan would be “immensely difficult” and may do little to end the conflict there, the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) said on Thursday. Russia and Iran would have to play a role
On Thursday, The New York Times published an op-ed by Russian President Vladimir Putin calling on the United States not to pursue military action in Syria, and blasting American exceptionalism. The Obama administration promptly responded by desperately claiming that the
When the dust settles, the concrete result of the Syria debacle is that dictator Bashar al-Assad was able to use chemical weapons, both literally and diplomatically, to retain power. Assad succeeded because President Barack Obama was never really serious about
Secretary of State John Kerry told viewers of a Google+ hangout on Tuesday that intelligence suggests that countries who have been supportive of the Assad regime would not consider retaliation in their best interests. Kerry said that Iran and the
On Monday, National Security Advisor Susan Rice made the case that the United States needed to intervene in Syria to prevent chemical weapons from being used against Americans at home. Similar to the “mushroom cloud” argument then-National Security Adviser Condoleeza
