Voice of America | Report: Iran Blocks Facebook Weeks Before Election FOXNews Access to the social networking site Facebook has been blocked in Iran just two weeks before the country's presidential elections, a local Iranian news agency has reported. Iranian Labour News Agency (ILNA) suggests the country's new ban on Facebook is ... Video: MIR: Ahmadinejad - Ballots and Missiles Iran 'blocks access to Facebook' Iran 'blocks' access to Facebook |
Telegraph.co.uk | Journalist Freed by Iran Returns to US Washington Post, United States She spent a week in Vienna recuperating after her release from prison in Iran. Asked how she was feeling Friday, she said, "Very good." Saberi was arrested in late January and convicted of spying for the United States in a closed-door trial that her ... Video: Freed US-Iranian journalist arrives in US Reporter freed by Iran back in US Journalist who was jailed by Iran returns to US |
BBC News | Iran reformists hope for high election turnout The Associated Press TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran's reformists are hoping a high turnout in the upcoming presidential election would help them oust hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who they say pushed the country deeper into international isolation and economic trouble ... Video: Iran Tests New Missile, Israel Within Range Iran's president vows to keep anti-West stance Iran's Ahmadinejad kicks off combative poll campaign |
Reuters | Israel Holds War Games as Tension With Iran Grows FOXNews JERUSALEM — Israel's air force held a large-scale exercise simulating war on several fronts with enemies that include Iran, Israeli defense officials said Friday. The practice this week involved Israel's entire air arm and was meant to prepare for an ... Video: Iran's missile test: Is Israel in danger? Mr. Obama and Mr. Netanyahu Syria: Israel's Iranophobia plot to sow discord |
Frattini: Italy to send envoy to Iran for talks soon Tehran Times, Iran ROME (IRNA) – Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini said on Friday that Italy will soon send a special envoy to Tehran to examine ways and means of Iran's contribution to Afghanistan security. Frattini said Director of the Asia-Pacific Department at ... |
PRESS TV | Have We Already Lost Iran? New York Times, United States By FLYNT LEVERETT and HILLARY MANN LEVERETT Patrick Thomas/Photograph Courtesy AP PRESIDENT OBAMA'S Iran policy has, in all likelihood, already failed. On its present course, the White House's approach will not stop Tehran's development of a nuclear ... Iran grants amnesty to 80 military prisoners Your Email Address Recipient's Email Address Khameini will continue to rule Iran, no matter who wins election |
The Nation, Pakistan | French tourist kidnapped in Chagai DAWN.com, Pakistan Anthenio Sarsaperla was going to Iran along with five other French nationals, including a woman and two children. The kidnapping took place between Dalbandin and Nokundi area of the district. Chagai DIG Qazi Hussain Ahmed confirmed the incident, ... French tourist kidnapped in Pakistan French national kidnapped from Balochistan French tourist kidnapped in Pakistan |
Telegraph.co.uk | Obama orders Gates to update plan for Iran strike Ynetnews, Israel US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates said Friday that President Barack Obama had asked him to update the plans for the use of military force against Iran which were prepared during former President George W. Bush's term. ... Gates defends US missile defense cuts Rep. Obey Questions Obama on Missile Defense Gates faces pressure on missile defense cuts |
Kuwait Times | Analysis: Iran looms over Obama Mideast peace bid The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — An increasingly emboldened Iran is both complicating and giving promise to the Obama administration's efforts to forge peace in the Middle East. President Barack Obama and his team are reaching out to Iran. At the same time, ... Video: Frost over the World - Danny Ayalon - 22 May 09 The Peace Maker Calm Voice, Big Stick |
Javno.hr | Joint Chiefs chair: Iran bomb would be 'calamitous' Jewish Telegraphic Agency, NY WASHINGTON (JTA) -- The chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff said that Iran's acquisition of a nuclear weapon would be "calamitous for the region and for the world." Adm. Mike Mullen also told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Thursday that ... US military commander warns of effects of nuclear-armed Iran Why Not Bomb Iran? US Admiral Mullen: Iran regime's nuclear bomb would be "calamitous" |