Global IssuesNews headlines for “Iran”, page 29
US-IRAN: Geneva Talks Seen as Potential Breakthrough
- Inter Press Service
While experts here are being deliberately tentative in their assessments of Thursday's meeting in Geneva between Iran and the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council and Germany (P5+1), there appears to be a growing sense that the results could lay the basis for a long-sought diplomatic breakthrough.
IRAN: Non-Western Big Powers Enjoy Growing Influence
- Inter Press Service
Thursday's seven-party talks in Geneva on Iran's nuclear programme resulted in a breakthrough agreement on Russian enrichment of materials Tehran needs for nuclear-medical work.
POLITICS: New Doubt Cast on U.S. Claim Qom Plant is Illicit
- Inter Press Service
An Iranian assertion that construction on its second enrichment facility began only last year and further analysis of satellite photos of the site have cast fresh doubts on the Barack Obama administration's charge that the construction of the plant near Qom involved a covert decision to violate Iran's obligations to report immediately to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) on any decision to build a new facility.
POLITICS: U.S. Story on Iran Nuke Facility Doesn't Add Up
- Inter Press Service
The story line that dominated media coverage of the second Iranian uranium enrichment facility last week was the official assertion that U.S. intelligence had caught Iran trying to conceal a 'secret' nuclear facility.
POLITICS: U.N. Chief Weighs in on Iran, Libya and Afghanistan
- Inter Press Service
Addressing his monthly press conference Tuesday, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon refused to back a Western endorsement of a premature election victory for Afghan President Hamid Karzai, implicitly criticised Libyan Leader Muammar el-Qaddafi for denigrating the U.N. charter, and faulted Iran for lack of transparency in its nuclear programme.
IRAN: New Nuke Charges Raise Stakes in Upcoming Talks
- Inter Press Service
Charges by U.S. President Barack Obama and the leaders of France and Britain Friday that Iran is building a secret underground plant to enrich uranium appear certain to heighten tensions just days before critical talks between Tehran and its three accusers, as well as Germany, China and Russia.
IRAN: Poll Finds Public Support for Nuke Power over Weapons
- Inter Press Service
A poll released Tuesday shows that Iranians are still strongly in favour of continuing their government's nuclear programme, but are open to compromises which would permit uranium enrichment while allowing international inspectors access to ensure that no bomb-making activities are taking place if sanctions are dropped.
RIGHTS-IRAN: Groups Call for Special U.N. Probe
- Inter Press Service
Just ahead of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's speech to world leaders at the United Nations General Assembly, two human rights organisations asked the international media to seize what they termed a crucial opportunity to hold him accountable for post-election violence in Iran.
IRAN: New Poll Finds Strong Domestic Support for Regime
- Inter Press Service
Despite persistent mass demonstrations protesting June's disputed reelection of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, a new survey of Iranian public opinion released here Saturday suggests majority domestic support for both him and the country's basic governing institutions.
POLITICS: Nuclear Agency Demanding Iranian Missile Blueprints
- Inter Press Service
Iran stopped meeting with the International Atomic Energy Agency last year over Western allegations of covert Iranian nuclear weapons work because the nuclear agency was demanding access to the designs for its Shahab-3 missile and other secret military data, according to both Iranian and IAEA officials.
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