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OP-ED: Iranian-U.S. Rapprochement: What’s in It for Israel and Saudi Arabia?
Israel, Saudi Arabia, and some of the other ArabGulf states are deeply sceptical of the Barack Obama administration’s efforts to reach a deal with Iran limiting its nuclear programme and to improve U.S.-Iranian relations generally.
Guarded Tone in Geneva as Negotiators Seek Iran Accord
Amidst rising expectations of a breakthrough, Iran and six world powers Wednesday resumed their quest for a deal on Iran’s controversial nuclear programme that seemed just within reach earlier this month.Obama Gets More Time for Iran Nuclear Deal
The administration of President Barack Obama appears to have succeeded in preventing Congress from enacting new sanctions against Iran before the next round of nuclear-related talks between the U.S. and other great powers and Tehran scheduled for Geneva Nov. 20.
Lavrov Reveals Amended Draft Circulated at “Last Moment”
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov revealed a crucial detail Thursday about last week's nuclear talks with Iran in Geneva that explains much more clearly than previous reports why the meeting broke up without agreement.
Scuppered Iran Deal Faces Scrutiny in U.S. Congress
The anticipated agreement over Iran’s controversial nuclear programme that seemed to slip away in the last stage of talks in Geneva last week is now being hotly debated on Capitol Hill.
Closer, But No Deal Over Iran’s Nuclear Programme
Despite rising hopes amid an unexpected turn of events, negotiations here between Iran and six world powers have ended without an agreement over Tehran’s nuclear programme.
Iran’s Zarif Talks Possible Details on Nuclear Deal
Raising expectations for a deal over its controversial nuclear programme, Iran’s chief negotiator Mohammad Javad Zarif has said that a joint statement on the framework of a nuclear deal could be issued as early as Friday here amid ongoing negotiations with the P5+1 group of world powers.
Cracks Widen in U.S.-Saudi Alliance
While Monday’s meeting between Secretary of State John Kerry and Saudi King Abdullah may have helped calm the waters, the latest anxieties and anger expressed by Riyadh toward the United States has reignited debate here about the value of the two countries’ long-standing alliance.
U.S., Iran Try to Narrow Gaps on Nuclear Deal
Against a backdrop of cautious optimism, Iran and six world powers known as the P5+1 are reconvening here for talks Nov. 7-8 over Tehran’s nuclear programme.
U.S.-Iran Poised for Breakthrough on Hostage Crisis Anniversary
On the 34th anniversary of the seizure by Iranian militants of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, a growing number of experts here believe Washington and the Islamic Republic may be moving toward détente, if not rapprochement.
For U.S. in the Mideast, the Ice Is Getting Thinner
New and unexpected strains in Washington’s ties with two of its closest Middle Eastern allies -- Saudi Arabia and Turkey -- have underlined the difficult challenges the administration of President Barack Obama faces in navigating its way in the region’s increasingly treacherous and turbulent waters.OP-ED: The End of the Beginning
The talks between Iran and the P5+1 countries last week bring to mind Winston Churchill’s 1942 description of World War II: “It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.”
Al-Shabaab Takes ‘Last Gasps’ in Ethiopia
The explosion went off at 2:40 on a Sunday afternoon, on a tree-lined side street in Ethiopia's capital city of Addis Ababa. The area was a quiet one - home to foreign diplomats, domestic civil servants and several embassies - and the blast was strong enough to kill two men, startle the neighbours, and demolish a small home.
Iran Hawks Down but Not Out After Geneva Talks
Hopeful statements emerging from this week’s talks between Iran and the great powers have clearly set back foes of any détente between Washington and Tehran, but they are far from giving up the fight.
Afghan Families Want Accountability, Not Apologies
The dusty cemetery in Saracha village hosts three new graves: small hills of soil shielding the bodies of Sahebullah, Wasihullah and Amanullah, three of the five boys and young men killed by an ISAF-NATO airstrike on late Friday, Oct. 4.
Iran Nuclear Deal May Have its Beginnings in Geneva
Talks between Iran and world powers known as the P5+1 over Iran’s nuclear programme wrapped up here Wednesday with expressions of encouragement and hope, a commitment to reconvene in just three weeks, and several welcomed “firsts”.Russia May Do Better Than its Nuclear Rhetoric
Despite a seemingly entrenched resistance to change on its nuclear disarmament policy, the Kremlin’s recent initiative to get Syria to destroy its chemical weapons provides hope that Russia could play a more positive role in reducing the world’s global nuclear stockpiles, experts say.
Geneva Talks Open amid High Hopes in Iran
Iran offered a new proposal in much-anticipated talks over its nuclear programme here Tuesday in a meeting with the P5+1 negotiating team comprising the United States, Britain, France, Russia and China, plus Germany.BOOKS: Containing Iran Is the “Least Bad Policy” for U.S.
The day that the much-heralded new round of nuclear talks between Iran and the P5+1 world powers opens might seem like the wrong day to pick up Unthinkable, Kenneth Pollack’s new exploration of what to do if talks fail.
Iran Talks to Resume Amid Guarded Optimism
Almost exactly four months after the election of Iran’s new president, Hassan Rouhani, talks over the Islamic Republic’s controversial nuclear programme will resume here on Tuesday.
Mystery Attackers Hit Sinai
A period of more than three months since former president Mohamed Morsi's ouster by Egypt's powerful military establishment have been marked by almost daily attacks on Egyptian security personnel, especially in the restive Sinai Peninsula. The identity of the attackers remains a mystery.« Previous Page — Next Page »
The United Nations Alliance of Civilisations (www.unaoc.org) has taken an essential step ahead of the earlier dialogue of civilisations: it recognises the need to act together rather than just talk, to take the world past conflict - some of it real, but much of it perceived. Far too much discourse places "civilisations" into opposed categories and labels them with ill-informed attributes. These lazy stickers will not be removed by weapons and arguments but through communication, with initiatives such as the Joint Rapid Response Media Mechanism (www.theglobalexperts.org), a panel of media experts who can guide facts past dangerous distortion. Here IPS takes its readers past standard prejudices to present the facts behind myths.
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