by Abbas Edalat (interview with Kourosh Ziabari) (source: CASMII)
23rd November, 2013
Archive for the ‘Iran’ Category
An attack on Iran remains a terrifying possibility, as a desperate flight forward by the Anglo-American coalition from an already hopeless situation in Iraq.
Iran’s principled position versus P5+1’s unprincipled bloc
Posted by seumasach on November 24, 2013
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US Senate agrees to delay vote on new Iran sanctions
Posted by seumasach on November 20, 2013
20th November, 2013
The upper house of the US Congress has acceded to the White House’s request to delay a vote on additional sanctions against Iran, as the Islamic Republic and six other countries are set to resume their nuclear negotiations in the Swiss city of Geneva.
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US-Iran seek change on crisis anniversary
Posted by seumasach on November 5, 2013
Jim Lobe
5th November, 2013
WASHINGTON – On the 34th anniversary of the seizure by Iranian militants of the US Embassy in Tehran, a growing number of experts here believe Washington and the Islamic Republic may be moving toward detente, if not rapprochement.
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Iran negotiating with China to unblock EUR 22 billion of assets
Posted by seumasach on November 3, 2013
3rd November, 2013
London, Asharq Al-Awsat—Iran and China will reach an agreement to unblock up to EUR 22 billion of Iranian assets, mainly from oil export revenues, as a result of Iranian parliamentary speaker Ali Larijani’s high-profile visit to China last week, Iranian media are reporting.
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Can Congress, hawks and the Israel lobby wreck the US-Iran talks?
Posted by seumasach on November 3, 2013
30th October, 2013
The Obama administration is working hard to head off a wrecking ball from Congress and the Israel lobby aimed at sabotaging negotiations between Iran and the P5+1. The talks, which resume in November, also include direct talks between the United States and Iran. The key issue: members of the House and Senate are trying to force-feed the administration yet another round of anti-Iran sanctions, at the very worst possible moment.
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Remove all sanctions against Iranian people!
Posted by seumasach on November 3, 2013
12th October, 2013
Editor’s note: This statement has been issued ahead of the new round of the 5+1 group with Iran jointly by the following NGO’s: Campaign Against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran, Organization for Defending Victims of Violence, Society for Chemical Weapons Victims Support, Tehran Peace Museum
The comprehensive US/EU sanctions attacking the lifeline of Iranian economy is a criminal war of choice against the Iranian population. Far from the claims of sanctions as diplomacy aimed at the resolution of the conflict over Iran’s nuclear programme, sanctions are inflicting, both by design and default, unendurable pain and destruction on Iranian people, Iran’s infrastructure and civil society institutions.
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White House Expected to ease sanctions targeting Syria …Iran to follow?
Posted by seumasach on November 3, 2013
1st November, 2013
Pressure on Obama from Putin as part of the ‘price tag’ for Russia’s role with bailing out the American president with the chemical weapons ‘redline’ which became a canard is one reason. Another reason is that the White House believes that it needs to communicate to Damascus that prospects for better relations and even some cooperation are not completely destroyed as a result of the 32 month crisis still raging in the Syrian Arab Republic.
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Obama administration presses Senate on Iran sanctions
Posted by seumasach on November 3, 2013
Obama administration presses Senate to hold off on new round of Iran sanctions
31st October, 2012
WASHINGTON — Vice President Joe Biden and senior Obama administration officials convinced a number of senators on Thursday to hold off on another round of Iran sanctions as Western powers test Tehran’s willingness to scale back its nuclear aims.
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US neo-cons despair over Iran diplomacy
Posted by seumasach on October 9, 2013
Jim Lobe
9th October, 2013
WASHINGTON – Last week began with a blistering denunciation by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Iranian duplicity and ended with diminished prospects for Israel to take direct action to address Iran’s nuclear capabilities .”The Israelis find themselves in a far worse position now than they have been for several years,” concluded Elliott Abrams, a leading neo-conservative who served as George W Bush’s main Middle East adviser, in Foreign Affairs.
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Rouhani surfs the new WAVE
Posted by seumasach on September 25, 2013
Pepe Escobar
25th September, 2013
He came. He listened. And he surfed.
“I listened carefully to the statement made by President Obama today at the General Assembly… [I’m] hoping that they will refrain from following the short-sighted interests of warmongering pressure groups and we can arrive at a framework to managing our differences.”
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Zarif turbocharges Iran’s diplomacy
Posted by seumasach on September 24, 2013
Kaveh Afrasiabi
23rd September, 2013
NEW YORK – Dr Mohammad Javad Zarif, Iran’s new foreign minister, is in New York to attend the UN General Assembly meeting and at the same time advance Iran’s foreign policy priorities at a delicate time in Middle East politics which is wrought with multiple conflicts and endemic insecurities.
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