CNN | Nuclear talks with Iran reach critical point CNN The talks hit a snag as the negotiations entered their third day, with Iran standing firm on several sticking points that could jeopardize a deal, senior U.S. officials and Western diplomats said. The sources said Iran has refused to budge on key ... What happens if nuclear talks with Iran fail? Nuclear Talks With Iran Head Toward Endgame as Deadlines Loom What to look for in an Iran nuclear deal |
New York Times | No. 2 Negotiators in Iran Talks Argue Physics Behind Politics New York Times LAUSANNE, Switzerland — At the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the mid-1970s, Ernest J. Moniz was an up-and-coming nuclear scientist in search of tenure, and Ali Akbar Salehi, a brilliant Iranian graduate student, was finishing a dissertation ... Obama's big brain on Iran |
Mediaite | Iranian Defector: 'US Negotiating Team Mainly There to Speak on Iran's Behalf' The Weekly Standard (blog) An Iranian journalist writing about the nuclear negotiations between the United States and Iran has defected. In an interview Amir Hossein Motaghi, has some harsh words for his native Iran. He also has a damning indictment of America's role in the ... Iranian Government Journalist Defects, Seeks Asylum in Switzerland During ... Iranian Journalist Defects, Says US Team Speaking for Iran Defecting Iranian Journalist: US at Nuclear Talks 'to Speak on Iran's Behalf' |
NBCNews.com | Yemen Crisis: President Hadi Calls Houthi Rebels 'Stooges of Iran' NBCNews.com The turmoil that has raged for months inside Yemen, an impoverished country at the bottom of the Arabian Peninsula, exploded this week into a dangerous and growing regional power struggle. Jets from Saudi Arabia bombed military installations in Yemen ... Yemen's President Calls Shiite Rebels 'Puppets of Iran' Yemen crisis: Houthi rebels are Iran stooges, says Hadi The Sunnis strike back |
The Economist | Iran and Shia militias The Economist LITTLE more than a decade ago King Abdullah II of Jordan sounded a warning that America's toppling of Saddam Hussein in Iraq would lead to the emergence of an Iranian-influenced “Shia crescent”—code for Iranian expansion—from Lebanon to Saudi ... Air Raids on Tikrit Give US the Upper Hand Against Iran Why the US Is Fighting Beside Iran in Iraq and Against It in Yemen Intel official: Iran 'pissed' at Iraq for joining with US in Tikrit fight |
ABC Online | Iran, Western powers struggle to overcome disputes in push for nuclear deal as ... ABC Online The negotiations, in progress for nearly 18 months, aim to hammer out an accord whereby Iran halts sensitive nuclear work in exchange for the lifting of sanctions. Negotiators say the ultimate aim of the deal is to reduce the risk of a war in the ... |
Politico | Brits: Iran nuke deal would be vague, unwritten Politico No specifics, nothing written, perhaps not even anything that Iran and the international negotiating partners say as one—that's the most to expect out of the nuclear talks now running up against the deadline in Switzerland, British Foreign Secretary ... |
CBS News | Iranian President Rouhani trumps the supreme leader — on Twitter, at least Washington Post (blog) LAUSANNE, Switzerland — When it comes to the Iran nuclear talks, the ultimate decision on whether to make a deal will be up to Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. But in the world of Twitter, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani reigns supreme. Iranian president pens letter to Obama on nuclear talks UK and Iran confident of breaking deadlock on nuclear programme Swiss Fondue With Iran While It Blows Up Yemen |
Haaretz | A French Jew and an Iranian judge try to settle Israel-Iran oil pipeline dispute Haaretz But after the Islamic revolution in Iran in 1979, the countries went from friends to enemies. Using a legal trick, Israel effectively nationalized the pipeline and continued to operate it. Iran then sued Israel in international arbitration to receive ... |
Wall Street Journal | Can Iran Tolerate Its Own History? Wall Street Journal Hossein Dehbashi, a 43-year-old Iranian documentary filmmaker, is making a splash in Tehran by giving voice to some of the most controversial figures in Iran: high officials and leading lights of the regime of the shah, overthrown in 1979 during the ... |