The United States is reviewing and seeking to confirm reports that Iran launched a ballistic missile last month in violation of U.N. Security Council resolutions, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power said on Tuesday. “The U.S. is conducting a serious review of the reported incident,” Power told reporters after a meeting of the Security Council on unrelated issues. She added that if Washington confirmed the reports that Iran tested a medium-range ballistic missile […]
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First salt restaurant in Iran
The first-ever restaurant made entirely of salt is now operating in Iran. Said restaurant is said to be pollution-free, owing to the disinfectant properties of salt.
Iran nuclear talks expected to resume next month
(Reuters) – Iran and six world powers are expected to adjourn nuclear negotiations on Monday and reconvene next month after the latest round of talks failed to clinch a final deal, a source close to the talks said. Details about the adjournment and resumption of negotiations were still being worked out, though the source said on condition of anonymity that Iran could not expect any new sanctions relief for the time being. Possible venues include Vienna and Oman, the […]
More time needed to reach deal on Iran nuclear talks – Chinese envoy
The Chinese representative involved in the negotiations of the Iranian nuclear program said that the talks should be extended, saying that the deadline will not be met.
Nuclear deal elusive as Iran, six powers resume talks in New York
By Louis Charbonneau UNITED NATIONS Wed Sep 17, 2014 7:06pm EDT (Reuters) – A diplomatic breakthrough is unlikely on a nuclear deal to end sanctions against Iran when talks resume in New York this week between Tehran and six world powers deadlocked after a year of negotiations. The talks between Iran and the United States, Britain, France, Germany, Russia and China are re-starting after a two-month hiatus and amid Washington and Tehran ruling out cooperation […]
Iran official says crew of plane carrying Americans gave false information
(Reuters) – An Iranian official said on Saturday that an airliner carrying Americans from Afghanistan to Dubai had been forced to land in Iran because the crew had supplied “false information”. The chartered Fly Dubai plane, carrying about 100 Americans from the U.S. airbase at Bagram, Afghanistan, landed in Dubai early on Saturday morning after being diverted to Bandar Abbas, just across the Strait of Hormuz. “The crew used false information so the authorities became suspicious … Because the information […]
Iran supplied weapons to Iraqi Kurdish forces; Baghdad bomb kills 12
(Reuters) – Iran has supplied weapons and ammunition to Iraqi Kurdish forces, Kurdistan President Massoud Barzani said Tuesday at a joint press conference with Iranian foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif in Arbil, capital of Iraq’s Kurdish region. The direct arming of Kurdish forces is a contentious issue because some Iraqi politicians have said they suspect Kurdish leaders have aspirations to break away from the central government completely. The move could also be seen by some as a […]
Iran strongly opposes U.S. intervention in Iraq
Iran’s supreme leader rejected possible intervention in Iraq by the United States and others, saying that Iraqis themselves can bring peace in their country.
U.S. considers air strikes on Iraq, holds talks with Iran
(Reuters) – President Barack Obama considered options for military action to support Iraq’s besieged government on Monday but made no decision on the U.S. response to a Sunni militant onslaught that has threatened to tear the country apart. Obama, who discussed the crisis with his top national security advisers, has made U.S. action contingent on Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki’s taking steps to broaden his Shi’ite-dominated government. “The president will continue to consult with his […]
U.S. considers air strikes, action with Iran to halt Iraq rebels
(Reuters) – The United States said it could launch air strikes and act jointly with its arch-enemy Iran to support the Iraqi government, after a rampage by Sunni Islamist insurgents acrossIraq that has torn up traditional alliances in the Middle East. Militants from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant have routed Baghdad’s army and seized the north of the country in the past week, threatening to dismember Iraq and unleash all-out sectarian warfare with no regard for national […]
Iran says it watered down, converted over 200 kg of enriched uranium
DUBAI Sat Apr 19, 2014 6:31pm EDT (Reuters) – Iran said on Saturday it had completed watering down and converting more than 200 kilograms (440 lb) of enriched uranium under a deal reached in Geneva last November with world powers over its disputed nuclear program. “Based on the agreement with the West, we were supposed to have half of our 200 kilogram stock of uranium diluted and the other half converted to uranium oxide,” Iran’s […]
US Presses Iran for Clarification of Nuclear Program
The United States demanded Iran to respond on the allegations that Iran’s nuclear program has a possible military purpose.
