PolitiFact - Amid media reports that President Donald Trumps son-in-law Jared Kushner sought secret "back-channel" communications with Russia before Trumps inauguration, some conservative commentators say outraged liberals have a short memory. They say Barack Obama did pretty much the same thing during the 2008 presidential campaign, secretly sending ...

Rumi, as interpreted by Coleman Barks, had this to say: Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field.I'll meet you there. In Tehran and Washington, politicians and analysts continue to wrangle over the Nov.24 interim nuclear agreement reached in Geneva between Iran and the P5+1 nations.At issue is the future of Irans nuclear program ...

Iran denounced theUSsuggestion that it play a role on the sidelines of the secondUnited NationsSyriapeace conference this month because the minimal role does not respect its dignity, a foreign ministry spokeswoman said Monday. But with skyrocketing sectarian violence throughout the region, particularly in Syria and Iraq, and the US beginning to withdraw ...