Global IssuesNews headlines for “Iran”, page 32
POLITICS: Lines Are Drawn in Iran
- Inter Press Service
With the historical Friday Prayer sermon given by former president and current chair of the Council of Experts and Expediency Discernment Council Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani on Jul. 17, and the riposte by Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei three days later, lines have been drawn in unprecedented ways in Iran.
IRAN: More Cracks in Political and Clerical Elites
- Inter Press Service
Five weeks after the disputed presidential elections, and four days after former president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani delivered a controversial speech at the Friday Prayers in Tehran in which he sided with the opposition and challenged the legitimacy of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's government, the rift between the ruling elites has widened, with some in the conservative camp taking a critical stance against the ostensibly re-elected president.
MIDEAST: Report Urges Continued U.S. Diplomatic Push
- Inter Press Service
The U.S. should proceed cautiously in its engagement strategy with Iran, while moving quickly toward final-status negotiations between Israelis and Palestinians, according to a new report by a team of veteran diplomats and Middle East policymakers.
IRAN: Opposition Shows Life Around Friday Prayer
- Inter Press Service
Amid a flurry of anticipation and speculation, former Iranian president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani led Friday prayers in Tehran this week.
US-IRAN: To Deal or Not to Deal, That Is the Question
- Inter Press Service
In 2007, after eight months of detention in Iran four in solitary confinement in Tehran's notorious Evin prison Iranian-American scholar Haleh Esfandiari returned to the U.S. and held a press conference at the Woodrow Wilson International Centre for Scholars, where she directs the Middle East Programme.
U.S.: Clinton Seeks 'Multi-Partner World', Warns Iran on Time
- Inter Press Service
In her first comprehensive policy address since becoming secretary of state nearly six months ago, Hillary Clinton Wednesday called for a 'multi-partner'' - as opposed to a 'multi-polar' - world' and defended President Barack Obama's policy of engagement with adversaries, including Iran.
FILM: Graphically Condemning a 'Barbaric and Horrific Punishment'
- Inter Press Service
Director Cyrus Nowrasteh's latest feature film 'The Stoning of Soraya M.' begins with a car radio blaring the successes of Iran's 1979 Revolution.
IRAN: Tale of Sorhab Arabi Raises Fears About the Missing
- Inter Press Service
After a 26-day search, Parvin Fahimi finally discovered that her son Sohrab Arabi, 19, had been gunned down during the peaceful protest march from Tehran's Enghelab (Revolution) Square to Azadi (Freedom) Square on Jun. 15.
POLITICS: Behind Detainee Release, a U.S.-Iraqi Conflict on Iran
- Inter Press Service
The release Friday of five Iranians held by the U.S. military in Iraq for two and a half years highlights the long-simmering conflict between the U.S. and Iraqi views of Iranian policy in Iraq and of the role of its Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) there.
IRAN: Protests Erupt on Student Massacre Anniversary
- Inter Press Service
Tehran's relatively tranquil week ended with large protests commemorating the tenth anniversary of attacks on the dormitories of Tehran University in 1999, making Thursday yet another significant day in the short post-election history of protests since Jun. 12.
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