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It's a seemingly simple approach to one of the modern world's most complicated political problems: By marrying the dainty lutes of the East with thrumming violas of the West, composer Hafez Nazeri says he wants to create harmony between the U.S. and his native Iran. Complete Story...
The Archbishop of Canterbury said Sunday that the U.S. and Iraq must protect the residents of Camp Ashraf from violence and abuse.
Supporters of an Iranian dissident group based in Iraq called on the Obama administration Thursday to restore U.S. military protection for the exiles, who were attacked by Iraqi security forces on July 28.
An exiled Iranian opposition group urged the international community on Tuesday to assume control of a camp housing some of its members outside Baghdad, after an Iraqi raid last month killed at least six of its residents.
Nobel laureate Shirin Ebadi on Sunday urged Iran's government to release detained activists and citizens accused of involvement in the country's postelection unrest, saying the president must "listen to the people's voice."
U.S. forces on Thursday released five Iranian officials detained in January 2007 in northern Iraq on suspicion of aiding local Shiite militants, Iranian and Iraqi officials said.
Until the Iranian election this month, Holland's Radio Zamaneh was more interested in underground music, alternative literature and interviews with Iranian cultural figures than in politics.
Iran is big business for Europe, whose companies sell it everything from rail equipment to turbines and even cell phone technology that has been used to block communications between protesters seeking to overturn disputed election results.
U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates says the Obama administration is closely watching the election in Iran but that policies are more significant than personalities in dealings with the Persian Gulf nation.
White House spokesman Robert Gibbs says Iran's missile launch was an obvious concern for the Obama administration.
The State Department has reaffirmed its designation of an Iraq-based Iranian opposition group as a terrorist organization.
An Iranian detained by U.S. forces at the Baghdad airport has been released, the Iraqi government said Saturday.
The U.S. military says it has arrested an alleged senior member of the Iranian security forces suspected of funneling weapons into Iraq.
Police say gunmen have kidnapped an Iranian diplomat after killing his guard in Pakistan's volatile northwest.
Organizers of the Venice Film Festival waited to announce "Khastegi (Tedium)" by first-time Iranian director Bahman Motamedian until the last minute to avoid alerting authorities to its sensitive subject: transsexuals in modern-day Iran.
An Iranian opposition group said Wednesday that the Iraqi government's move to ban dealings with it reflected pressures on Baghdad by Iran.
The Netherlands' highest court on Tuesday rejected a gay Iranian's last-ditch appeal to avoid deportation to Britain, where he fears authorities will send him back to Tehran and possible execution.
Greeted by joyous relatives and a crowd of reporters, about 40 Iranian Jews landed in Israel on Tuesday, leaving behind their lives in the Islamic Republic for new homes in the Jewish state.
An Iranian detained in northern Iraq more than three years ago has been released by U.S. authorities, Iran's ambassador said Wednesday.
When Iranian agents boarded an airplane that made an emergency landing in Tehran, the only Israeli passenger on board feared the worst. Instead, he left with a gift of a wooden music box and an invitation to return when times are better.
Iran has launched a rocket capable of reaching the edge of space, according to a state television report on Sunday.
Gunmen wearing Iraqi army uniforms seized an Iranian diplomat as he drove through central Baghdad, officials said Tuesday. Tehran condemned the abduction and blamed U.S. forces in Iraq.
A group of Jewish Iranians who say their missing relatives were kidnapped and tortured by the Iranian government have sued the country's former president, delivering the summons to him directly while he was visiting the United States.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad warned Tuesday that the conflict between Lebanon and Israel could trigger "a hurricane" of broader fighting in the Middle East.
Iran has received its first batch of North Korean-made surface-to-surface missiles that put European countries within firing range, Israel's military intelligence chief said in an interview published Thursday.
Religion & The MarketplaceIslam is on its march of death on many fronts. A very dangerous front has been recently re-opened at the United Nations (UN) by the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC), the largest group of nations within the UN, by introducing a new resolution.
Iran Agrees to Send Enriched Uranium Outside Country: Also Will Allow Inspection of Uranium Enrichment PlantOn October 1, 2009 Iran committed "to open its newly revealed uranium enrichment plant near Qum to international inspection in the next two weeks and to send most of its openly declared enriched uranium outside Iran," according to "senior American and other Western officials," as …
US nuclear expert Scott Ritter slams US, Israeli "hype" over Iran's peaceful nuclear energyRitter: "Iran is not an aggressor. Iran has not attacked anybody. Iran is simply trying to do that which it is legally allowed to do: produce enriched uranium for the purposes of nuclear power. It's Israel ... creating crisis"
Even the French think Barack Obama is weak - UK TelegraphIt is shameful when the White House is accused of betrayal by close allies in eastern and central Europe, but utterly humiliating when even the Elysee Palace thinks the United States has been transformed from a lion to a lamb in the face of mounting global threats.
Was the Iranian Election 'Rigged'? Perhaps NotThis article cites a recent poll by WorldPublicOpinion.org and a pre-election poll to support the legitimacy of the 2009 Iranian Presidential election.
Black Sea Crisis Deepens As Threat To Iran GrowsAs early as January of 2007 reports on that score surfaced in Bulgarian and Romanian news sources.
Iranian artist denounces lack of freedom in filmVENICE (Reuters) - Iranian video artist Shirin Neshat has made her first feature film about women's lack of freedom and growing political involvement in 1953 Iran, but she said the story had strong parallels with the situation today.
UN Nuclear Watchdog: Iran nuclear threat hypedIran is not going to produce a nuclear weapon any time soon and the threat posed by its atomic program has been exaggerated, the U.N. nuclear watchdog chief said in a published interview.
BBC NEWS | Middle East | Iranian protesters 'not agents'From the BBC article: Iran's supreme leader says he has seen no proof that opposition leaders blamed for the post-election unrest were agents of foreign powers. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's comments contradict accusations which have frequently been made by hardliners.
BBC NEWS | Middle East | Iranian ex-MPs challenge KhameneiHoly cow! A direct challenge by ex-MP's to remove the Supreme Leader (not the system)! Probably won't happen, but is significant.
BBC NEWS | Middle East | Will Iran's Basij stay loyal?A look at Iran's Basij and how some members seem to be questioning their roles in the security forces.
"It's all about power, not religion" - why Iran's Revolutionary Guards are cracking downThe quasi-military entity that makes Turkey's military generals look like leftist pussy-cats: the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).
Protests as Mahmoud Ahmadinejad sworn in as Iran's President - Times President Ahmadinejad was sworn in for a second term today, but it was hardly a joyful occasion or cause for national celebration.
BBC NEWS | Middle East | Iran reformers slate trial 'sham'A 100 people who took part in the protests, including some big time reformist leaders, are to be put on trial by Iranian authorities. There's also allegations that confessions were coerced. This part of the article below was extremely intriguing.
Azadi DJ: IN BRIEF: Three Week Iranian Election 2009 Documentary SeriesWhat will follow, starting on Sunday, July 26, 2009 will be the release over a period of three weeks raw footage from one of the only documentaries that captured the Iranian Election of 2009. This is not to say that this is the completed documentary - not at all!
Ahmadinejad Riles Powerful AlliesThere's a deepening rift amongst the Ahmadinejad and his fellow conservatives. New lines are being drawn, but its not for certain who's standing where...
Western hostility to Islam is stoked by double standards and distortionThe political and media bias is clear. But we Arabs and Muslims too must combat false, retrograde ideas around our religion...
Dr Paul Craig Roberts: Years of US-Israeli threats to Iran - PSYOPS before attack on IranTop US writer and analyst Dr Paul Craig Roberts: the Japanese didn't, the Nazis didn't but post-1945 US and Israeli PSYOPS demand lengthy periods of propaganda and demonizing to justify naked aggression e.g. on Iran.
All on Board Dead in Iran Plane CrashThis article from Iran's PressTV discusses the crash of an Iranian passenger jet on July 15, 2009 that apparently killed 168 people, everyone on board.
All 168 Reported Dead in Iranian Plane Crash (Includes Video of Crash Scene)A 38 second video of the crash scene accompanies this article about the crash of an Iranian passenger jet on July 15, 2009 that apparently killed 168 people, everyone on board.
BBC NEWS | Middle East | Iran learns from past to crush dissentCurrent situation in Iran and the implications.
UNODC hails Iran for curbing flow of Afghan heroin from Obama US Occupied Afghanistan UN Office on Drugs and Crime, Antonio Maria Costa, has praised Iran for leading the fight against heroin from US-occupied Afghanistan. More than 3,700 Iranian security personnel have been killed fighting drug smugglers
Freedom craving 'fuelling Iran unrest'The Iranian leadership is falling into the same trap that their arch-enemy the Shah of Iran fell into in the 1970s.
Iran�s Filmmakers Challenge Regime, Clamor for New Elections - Bloomberg.comJune 24 (Bloomberg) -- Exiled Iranian filmmakers are challenging the regime of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and speaking up for opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi after the disputed elections earlier this month.
Since the start of post-election protests in Iran the GOP has widely accused President Obama of being "too soft" on the Iranian government. But avoiding direct U.S. intervention is the only way to ensure lasting change in Iran.
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