Global IssuesNews headlines for “Iran”, page 36
POLITICS: Iranian Elections Could Shape U.S. Engagement
- Inter Press Service
Washington is waiting anxiously on the outcome of Friday’s Iranian presidential elections, as incumbent President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad attempts to fend off challenger Mir Hossein Mousavi in a contest with significant implications for the diplomatic atmosphere between Iran and the U.S.
IRAN: Reformist Candidates Complain of Too Many Ballots
- Inter Press Service
Fears that the state apparatus controlled by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is laying the groundwork for possible fraud in Friday’s presidential election appear to be growing among his two reformist challengers and their supporters.
POLITICS: Iranians Keen on Improved Ties with U.S.
- Inter Press Service
More than three out of every four Iranian citizens favour improved relations with the United States, according to a major survey conducted less than one month before this Friday's presidential elections in Iran by a U.S. non-governmental organisation, Terror Free Tomorrow (TFT).
MIDEAST: Lebanese Polls Closely Watched by U.S. and Region
- Inter Press Service
After emerging from a political crisis last year, the Lebanese people will head to the polls Jun. 7 to determine the composition of the new parliament. A variety of foreign powers, including the U.S., will be watching closely, waiting for the electoral results before they determine their policies towards the new government.
U.S.: Obama Appeals to Muslim World for 'New Beginning'
- Inter Press Service
In what was perhaps the most widely anticipated speech delivered by a U.S. president abroad in recent memory, Barack Obama Thursday extended a hand to the world’s 1.4 billion Muslims, receiving repeated applause and a standing ovation from the audience at Cairo University in the Egyptian capital.
Q&A: Notes From Iran’s Underground Music Scene
- Inter Press Service
As Iran’s conservative president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad fights for his political future against two reformist challengers in the June elections, Arash Sobhani, a lead figure in the country’s underground music scene, says it’s a very tough time to be an artist in Iran.
POLITICS-US: Report Ties Dubious Iran Nuclear Docs to Israel
- Inter Press Service
A report on Iran’s nuclear programme issued by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee last month generated news stories publicising an incendiary charge that U.S. intelligence is underestimating Iran’s progress in designing a 'nuclear warhead' before the halt in nuclear weapons-related research in 2003.
POLITICS: Where Iran Fits in the Mideast Peace Puzzle
- Inter Press Service
What is the relationship between the United States’ policy towards Iran and its performance on Arab-Israeli peacemaking, including the crucial quest for peace between Israel and the Palestinians?
IRAN: Lawyers Seek Reversal in Second 'U.S. Spy' Case
- Inter Press Service
In a case that human rights activists say echoes that of recently released journalist Roxana Saberi, the Iranian government has imprisoned a woman employed by a U.S.-based non-profit organisation working to improve child and maternal health in the country, alleging that she acted as a spy for the United States.
POLITICS-US: Iran Hawks Push Obama on Deadline for Diplomacy
- Inter Press Service
After an uneventful first meeting between U.S. President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that seemed to produce no real breakthroughs, hawks in the U.S. and Israel are seizing upon what they claim is a significant concession by Obama: his setting a 'timetable' for negotiations with Iran.
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