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Washington wags are preparing a climb-down from Obama’s declared policy of halting Tehran’s nuclear drive.

Following release of IAEA report, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu tells British Foreign Minister William Hague economic, diplomatic pressure has failed to stop Iran, presenting the "biggest challenge of our time."

Le Trésor américain a annoncé jeudi de nouvelles sanctions contre une vingtaine d'individus et d'entreprises en Iran "pour leur implication dans des réseaux liés à la prolifération nucléaire et de missiles". Ces réseaux sont accusés de transporter des équipements et de fournir des services aux...

WASHINGTON, DC- Today, President Obama nominated Judge Landya B. McCafferty, Justice Brian Morris, and Judge Susan P. Watters to serve as district court judges. “These individuals have had distinguished legal careers and I am honored to ask them to continue their work as judges on the federal bench,” said President Obama.  “They will serve the American people with...

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Swiss-based commodities giant Glencore Xstrata said on Thursday that it had done nothing wrong when it engaged in metal swaps with Iran, rejecting a suggestion by U.N. experts that such bartering could have been a way of evading sanctions against Tehran over its nuclear program.

La ordenanza de paisaje urbano de Barcelona establece que los 100.000 euros deberían pagar las obras del monumento pero irán a proyectos sociales. Por CAMILO S. BAQUERO

According to a new U.N. atomic agency report, Iran is expanding its nuclear program by accelerating the installment of advanced uranium enrichment equipment at Natanz, a nuclear facility. Iran has installed 700 advanced IR2m centrifuges, an increase from 180 in February, although the new centrifuges are not yet operating. The report said there hasn't been a significant...

European Union says Iran's expansion of nuclear activity breaks UN resolutions, raises concern over nature of program.

The UN atomic agency has described "rapid" progress by Iran in developing its uranium enrichment facilities, just weeks after a report suggested the Stuxnet worm that first hit the country in 2009 had increased the country's nuclear strength.    

Glencore Xstrata has denied any wrongdoing over an Iranian alumina deal, after a leaked UN report said the transactions could have been a way of skirting international sanctions.    

Robert Reimann watched the second plane hit the South Tower of the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001 and then observed as his office nearby destroyed as the towers fell. Then he did something few Americans considered at the time: He took a bike tour across Iran. "I wanted to see a Muslim country and see what people in that part of the world were actually thinking vs....

DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran denied on Thursday that one of its drones had violated the airspace of Bahrain, home to the U.S. Navy's Fifth Fleet, Iranian media reported.

Mohsen Rezai and Ali Akbar Velayati are believed to have planned 1994 attack against Jewish center in Buenos Aires.

Hat der Rohstoffriese Glencore die Sanktionen gegen Iran umgangen? Das deutet ein Papier der Vereinten Nationen an, über den die Nachrichtenagentur Reuters berichtet. Der Konzern habe Aluminium an eine iranische Firma geliefert.

Die internationale Gemeinschaft will den Bürgerkrieg in Syrien beenden, und doch halten ihn Teile von ihr am Leben: Während Russland das Assad-Regime mit Waffen beliefert und Iran sogar Kämpfer nach Syrien schickt, unterstützen westliche und einige arabische Länder die Opposition. Wer was will. Eine interaktive Grafik gibt Überblick.     

The latest round of Russian and U.S. diplomacy has yet to prove it can end a civil war in Syria that has already exacted well over 70,000 lives and threatened to engulf the region. But it has been enough to convince Lakhdar Brahimi, the U.N.-Arab League envoy on Syria, to put his retirement plans on hold and serve as the diplomatic ringleader for the high-stakes negotiations....

Iran is making significant progress in expanding its nuclear programme, including in opening up a potential second route to developing the bomb, a new UN atomic agency report showed Wednesday.

Alliance calls for immediate withdrawal of Iranian fighters, Hezbollah from Syrian territory; says armed presence "regional threat."

Laut einem UN-Bericht könnte Glencore Iran Aluminium geliefert haben. Dieses könnte die islamische Republik zum Ausbau ihres Atomprogramms verwendet haben. Schweizer Behörden sehen keine Verletzung der Sanktionen.

International nuclear inspectors said Iran had increased its capabilities, but their report suggested that Tehran had not passed a “red line” that could incite military action.    

UN nuclear watchdog: Tehran installing hundreds of centrifuges, transported research reactor to central town of Arak.

James S. Brady Press Briefing Room 1:31 P.M. EDT   MR. CARNEY: Hello, everyone.  Welcome to the White House.  Thanks for being here.  Before I take your questions I wanted to mention something that I think is breaking now, as Wolf Blitzer would say, and that is that on Sunday, May 26th, the President will travel to the Oklahoma City area to see firsthand the response...

Die Atomwächter sind besorgt: Iran feilt weiter an seinem umstrittenen Atomprogramm und weitet es stetig aus. Das zeigt ein Bericht der Internationalen Atomenergiebehörde IAEA. Das Land zerstört alle Hoffnung, dass sich der Atomstreit nach den Wahlen entspannen könnte.

Iran is making significant progress in expanding its nuclear programme, including in opening up a potential second route to developing the bomb, a new UN atomic agency report showed Wednesday.    

John Kerry seeks support for British-led move as means of pressuring Bashar al-Assad to enter into peace negotiationsThe United States is lobbying European governments to back a British-led call to amend the EU arms embargo on Syria to put pressure on President Bashar al-Assad to enter into talks with the opposition.John Kerry, the US secretary of state, has been urging...

Uno de esos productos que ha logrado mantenerse contra viento y marea es 'El secreto de Puente Viejo', que Antena 3 comenzó a emitir en febrero de 2011

El principal favorito es Said Yalilí, actual jefe del equipo negociador atómico de Teherán

VIENNA (AP) -- The U.N. atomic agency on Wednesday detailed rapid Iranian progress in two programs that the West fears are geared toward making nuclear weapons, saying Tehran has upgraded its uranium enrichment facilities and advanced in building a plutonium-producing reactor....

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- By now, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is well-accustomed to enduring blows from Iran's ruling clerics as his reputation fell from favored son to political outcast. But their intended parting shot - barring his chief aid from the presidential race - may be just the opening act in Ahmadinejad's reinvention as a self-styled opposition force....

Main domestic and international issues facing Iran ahead of its June 14 presidential election:...

VIENNA (Reuters) - Iran is pressing ahead with the construction of a research reactor that Western experts say could eventually produce plutonium for a nuclear weapon if Tehran decides to make one, a U.N. report showed on Wednesday.

VIENNA (Reuters) - Iran is pressing ahead with the construction of a research reactor that Western experts say could offer it a second way of producing material for a nuclear bomb if it decides to make one, a U.N. report showed on Wednesday.

As someone who is pretty friggin' wary about the use of American force in Syria, and as someone who does not shy away from snark in the blogosphere, I found Steve Walt's top ten warning signs of liberal imperialism to more alienating than endearing.  Part of it is the "liberal imperialism" label -- as I noted when Mearsheimer first coined the term, it obfuscates far...

Former Iranian President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani and President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's former chief of staff, Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei, have been barred from running in Iran's upcoming presidential election. Iran's Guardian Council, tasked with vetting candidates, determined the final list of candidates for the June 14 election Tuesday night, which included six ultraconservative...

UN nuclear watchdog: Tehran installing hundreds of centrifuges.

British foreign secretary says Assad regime upping dependency on "external support"; vows to support int'l conference to end conflict.

Im Iran zeichnet sich ein neuer Streit um die Kandidaten für die Präsidentenwahl im Juni ab. Amtsinhaber Ahmadinedschad wehrt sich gegen den Ausschluss seines Vertrauten.

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Wednesday that a decision by election overseers to disqualify his top aide from next month's presidential race is an act of "oppression" and that he will take the case to the country's supreme leader....

VIENNA (Reuters) - Iran has increased its capacity to refine uranium by installing hundreds of more centrifuges at its Natanz plant, a U.N. nuclear agency report said on Wednesday, underlining Tehran's defiance of Western demands to curb the activity.

AMMAN (Reuters) - British Foreign Secretary William Hague said on Wednesday Iran and its militant Shi'ite Lebanese ally Hezbollah were "propping up" Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and giving him increasing support.

A dark horse has entered the Iranian presidential election amidst widespread political dissidence.

Acht Kandidaten dürfen bei der Präsidentenwahl im Iran antreten. Nicht zugelassen wurden unter anderem der reformorientierte Ex-Präsident Rafsandschani und ein Vertrauter von Amtsinhaber Ahmadinedschad. Dagegen will der scheidende Staatschef nun vorgehen.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has vowed to take a decision to disqualify a close ally from a vote to elect his success to Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, denouncing it as an act of "oppression".    

Ultrakonservativ ist das Gremium, das die Kandidaten für die Präsidentenwahl in Iran bestimmt. Auch ein Vertrauter Mahmud Ahmadinedschads wurde nicht zugelassen. Dagegen will der derzeitige Amtsträger vorgehen - und beim Ayatollah vorsprechen.     

Einem Bericht der "Washington Post" zufolge hat Iran eigene Soldaten nach Syrien geschickt, die gemeinsam mit der regulären Armee und Hisbollah-Miliz gegen die Opposition kämpfen. Laut Bundesnachrichtendienst hat sich das Assad-Regime inzwischen militärisch stabilisiert. Die aktuellen Entwicklungen im Newsblog.     

VIENNA (AP) -- Iran is moving ahead to update a program the West fears could be used to make nuclear weapons, diplomats said Wednesday, despite high-level diplomacy aimed at stopping it from doing so....

The stepped-up support President Bashar al-Assad of Syria has received from Iran and Hezbollah appears to have fortified his belief that he can hang on to power and prevail militarily.    

DUBAI (Reuters) - Iranian authorities barred two potentially powerful and disruptive candidates from running in next month's presidential election on Tuesday, ensuring a contest largely among hardliners loyal to the clerical supreme leader.

Das Regime in Teheran hat unliebsame Kandidaten von der Präsidentschaftswahl ausgeschlossen. Unter ihnen ein Kandidat der Reformer und ein Vertrauter Ahmadinedschads.

Nächster Knalleffekt im Präsidentschaftswahlkampf im Iran: Nachdem sich der mächtige Ex-Präsident und Chef des Schlichtungsrates, Ayatollah Ali Akbar Hashemi-Rafsanjani (Bild) in letzter Sekunde in den Ring geworfen hatte, hat in der Wächterrat der Islamischen Republik am Dienstag, ebenso wie den Ahmadinejad-Vertrauten Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei, von einer Kandidatur...

Der Hoffnungsträger der Liberalen im Iran, Ex-Präsident Rafsandschani, darf nicht bei der Präsidentenwahl antreten. Auch der Gefolgsmann von Amtsinhaber Ahmadinedschad darf nicht teilnehmen.

Acht Kandidaten dürfen am 14. Juni bei der Präsidentenwahl in Iran antreten, doch zwei prominente Politiker werden nicht auf dem Wahlzettel stehen. Der Wächterrat hat Ex-Präsident Rafsandschani disqualifiziert. Auch für den engsten Vertrauten von Amtsinhaber Ahmadinedschad kam das Aus.

Iranian authorities on Tuesday barred former President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, a relative moderate, from running in the June 14 election.    

List of eight candidates allowed to run in race to succeed Mahmoud Ahmadinejad excludes two leading figuresAkbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, the leading opposition-backed candidate in Iran's presidential election, was disqualified on Tuesday from standing in a blow to those hoping for significant change when Mahmoud Ahmadinejad leaves office.Iranian state-run television broadcast...

Irans früherer Präsident Rafsandschani darf bei der kommenden Präsidentenwahl nicht antreten. Der Wächterrat verweigert ihm laut der staatlichen Nachrichtenagentur Fars die Teilnahme.    

Iran’s state television announced Tuesday that Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, a two-term former president who called for greater freedom during protests in 2009, has been barred from running in next month’s election to succeed President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.    

A vetting panel rejected Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei, an ally of President Ahmadinejad, and former President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani.    

Ex-president Hashemi Rafsanjani and an ally of President Ahmadinejad disqualified from running in presidential polls.

The eight candidates approved Tuesday for Iran's June 14 presidential election to replace Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who cannot run again because of term limits....

DUBAI (Reuters) - Iranian authorities on Tuesday barred former President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, a relative moderate, from running in the June 14 election, along with a protégé of the current president, leaving mainly hardliners left to contest the vote.

UN nuclear agency report expected to show Iran further increasing capacity to produce materials, continued instillation of centrifuges.

Internet speeds had dropped in much of Tehran, in some places accessing the Web had become impossible

Speculation mounts that prominent politicians Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani and Esfandiar Rahim-Mashaei have been barred from the election

El Consejo de Guardianes rechaza las candidaturas de Rafsanyani y Mashaei y aprueba una lista compuesta por ocho fieles del líder supremo Ali Jameneí

DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran's semi-official Mehr news agency said on Tuesday that it had heard that the Guardian Council, which is vetting candidates for next month's presidential election, had barred former president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani and a leading ally of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad from running.

VIENNA (Reuters) - A U.N. nuclear agency report due this week is expected to show Iran further increasing its capacity to produce material that its adversaries fear could eventually be put to developing atomic bombs, Western diplomats said on Tuesday.

RIYADH (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia has detained 10 more people in a spying case it announced in March that it said was linked to Iran, state television reported on Tuesday.

SHANNON, Ireland (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry flies to Oman on Tuesday for Raytheon Co's signing of an estimated $2.1 billion arms deal and to consult on Syria and Iran, U.S. officials said.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States on Monday appointed a special envoy to monitor and combat anti-Semitism as a new State Department report warned about incidents in Venezuela, Egypt and Iran.

British foreign secretary warns of regional 'catastrophe' as al-Qaida and Hezbollah clash in battle for QusairBritain is seeking to amend the EU arms embargo on Syria to press Bashar al-Assad into holding peace talks with the rebels because the escalating conflict is threatening a regional "catastrophe", William Hague warned on Monday.Speaking as combat raged around the...

Iran Reportedly Hangs 2 Men Convicted of Spying

A series of car bombings have hit the Iraqi cities of Baghdad and Basra on Monday, killing an estimated 48 people. No group has taken responsibility for the attacks which targeted several Shiite districts of the Iraqi capital as well as the oil-rich predominantly Shiite city of Basra, in southeastern Iraq. Bombs exploded at a restaurant and bus stop in Basra, and were...

Accused of being a CIA spy, 29-year-old U.S. veteran has been held since August 2011.