Global IssuesNews headlines for “Iran”, page 27
Q&A: 'The Government Took My Sister Hostage'
- Inter Press Service
The Iranian government has intensified its pressure on political and human rights activists since the harsh crackdown on protesters on the holy day of Ashura, arresting major political figures and even their family members, including Noushin Ebadi, the sister of Noble Peace Laureate Shirin Ebadi.
POLITICS: Whither Iran?
- Inter Press Service
The confrontation that took place in the streets of several large cities in Iran on the occasion of Ashura has brought the acrimonious political fight among the Islamic Republic's elite into focus in significantly different ways than before.
U.S.: Digging Out or Digging Deeper?
- Inter Press Service
As 2009 draws to a close, the big question here is whether President Barack Obama is succeeding in digging out of the hole — international as well as financial - that he inherited from George W. Bush or digging deeper into it.
IRAN: Revolutionary Guards Tighten Economic Hold
- Inter Press Service
News that Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps is withdrawing a billion dollars from the country's Foreign Reserve Fund in order to complete Phases 15 and 16 of the gigantic South Pars gas project has generated concern among Iranian analysts, who believe the move reveals the military organisation's excessive power over Iran's economy.
POLITICS: U.S. Intelligence Found Iran Nuke Document Was Forged
- Inter Press Service
U.S. intelligence has concluded that the document published recently by the Times of London, which purportedly describes an Iranian plan to do experiments on what the newspaper described as a 'neutron initiator' for an atomic weapon, is a fabrication, according to a former Central Intelligence Agency official.
POLITICS: The Week the IAEA Applied a Nuclear Double Standard
- Inter Press Service
In 2004, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) revealed that a member state had violated its Safeguards Agreement by carrying out covert uranium conversion and enrichment activities and plutonium experiments for more than two decades. The nature of certain of those enrichment activities, moreover, raised legitimate suspicions of interest in a nuclear weapons programme.
IRAN: Domestic Conflict Shifts into Higher Gear
- Inter Press Service
Although the tumult that has gripped Iran since the contested Jun. 12 election has never abated, two recent occurrences have highlighted the further sharpening of internal conflict and the government's inability to restore stability in the face of creative ways the opposition has learned to use the symbols of the Islamic Republic in order to sustain itself.
US-IRAN: House Passes Sanctions Bill, Senate Urged to Wait
- Inter Press Service
In advance of U.S. President Barack Obama's end of the year deadline for Iran to respond to negotiations aimed at bringing a halt to the Islamic Republic's nuclear programme, the House of Representatives passed a bill Tuesday to sanction companies that sell refined petroleum to Iran.
US: One Step Closer to Unilateral Sanctions Against Iran
- Inter Press Service
Congress has given new momentum to a bill imposing unilateral sanctions on Iran - a move seen by many as an ineffective form of sanctions and potentially antagonistic against valuable U.S. allies on the U.N. Security Council. This comes ahead of the end of the year deadline set by U.S. President Barack Obama for Tehran to respond to a proposed agreement to export most of its enriched uranium for processing in Russia and France.
US-IRAN: Moving Again Toward Confrontation
- Inter Press Service
Iran's announced intention to build 10 new nuclear enrichment plants has been deemed 'unacceptable' by the administration of President Barack Obama, which warned Monday of increased pressure on Tehran if it does not soon accept Western proposals to curb its nuclear programme.
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