[caption id="attachment_130604" align="alignright" width="189"] Former Iran nuclear negotiator, Seyed Hossein Mousavian[/caption] Irans former nuclear negotiator says a nuclear deal between Iran and the 5+1 group (the five permanent members of the UN Security Council, plus Germany) could pave the way for possible cooperation in the fight against ...

(Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama will seek to ease Saudi concerns that he is neglecting an old ally when he visits Riyadh on Friday, months after top Saudis objected to what they saw as a growing rapprochement between Washington and their rival Iran. Rifts over Middle East policy came to a head last year when Washington worked with other powers ...

Current negotiations with Iran over its nuclear program in Geneva have raised hopes that there may be rapprochement between Iran and the West. This recalls an earlier potential 'thaw' in U.S.-Iran relations on January 7, 1998 when some U.S. officials reacted to the then Iranian President Mohammad Khatami's call for better relations between the United ...

Iran is the new kid on the former-Soviet Bloc. The possibility of a detente with the US has seen businessmen from across the region flock to Tehran, but Iran is already busy rebuilding ties with a part of the world it has known well for a millennium. On the face of it, Iran is a good match with surrounding nations in so much as it shares religious ...

The brewing rapprochement between the United States and Iran, signified by the Geneva nuclear deal signed in January, seems likely to scramble American strategic priorities in the South Caucasus, especially for Azerbaijan. In recent years, the United Statesdeemphasized democratizationin its dealings with Azerbaijan on account of Bakus strategic position ...

While the focus of US attention is on how to craft an agreement defining Irans nuclear program, the broader issue of Irans hostility toward Israel has long been at the center of the US-Iran divide. No real reconciliation between the US and Iran is likely while Iran is seen as an implacable foe of the most important American ally in the Middle East ...

[caption id="attachment_53449" align="alignright" width="180"] US Secretary of State John Kerry (left) and Iranian Foreign[/caption] (Reuters) - The foreign ministers of the United States and Iran held rare private talks in Germany on Sunday to discuss the next stage in efforts to reach a definitive agreement to end a decade-old dispute over Iran's ...

Daily look at Irans late-breaking news and upcoming events:   Rouhani says in negotiations with U.S., Europe relations to normalise Iranis negotiating with the United States as part of a constructive engagement with the world community and wants Washington to back up its words with actions, President Hassan Rouhani said on Thursday.  ...

(Reuters) -Iranis negotiating with the United States as part of a "constructive engagement" with the world community and wants Washington to back up its words with actions, President Hassan Rouhani said on Thursday. Speaking at the World Economic Forum inDavos, the pragmatic president who took office last August also said relations with Europe were ...

The Iran-US bonhomie may be bad news for traditional Iran-baiters like Saudi Arabia and Israel, but it certainly is good news for oil-importing developing countries like India and China as international oil prices are unlikely to see major spikes and may even go southwards if Iran has its way. Apart from Iran, countries like Iraq and Libya too are ...

Following the finalization of a recent interim agreement between Iran and the P5+1 group of world power [in Geneva, Switzerland], which is known as the Joint Plan of Action, the nuclear case of Iran has been a topic for daily political analyses across the world. As a result, analytical circles have evaluated various aspects of this interim agreement....

In the wake of the Geneva interim agreement of late November, which marked the first formal agreement between Iran and the United States since the 1979 Islamic Revolution, there are increasing hopes and fears of an Iranian-US rapprochement. Whilst much of the international community views Iranian-US rapprochement in positive terms, the conservative ...

Saudi Arabia, like Israel, has bitterly opposed President Barack Obamas deal with Iran, accusing it of abandoning its long-time allies in the Gulf. The US-Iranian rapprochement has soured Riyadhs relations with Washington. These have already been strained by Obamas about-turn on launching a military strike in support of the Islamist forces in Syria ...

The United States is at a crossroads over the Iran nuclear deal. In his first congressional testimony since last months Geneva agreement the US Secretary of state faced skeptical lawmakers pushing for new sanctions on the Islamic Republic. John Kerry urged Congress members to hold off on drastic measures while the negotiators are crafting a comprehensive ...

LONDON The recent nuclear deal with Iran has caused a predictable furor among Middle East hawks. But it offers an opportunity for a much bigger breakthrough: rapprochement and, eventually, even strategic cooperation with Iran. International alliances morph and shift; relationships freeze and unfreeze. For the last 30 years American-Iranian relations ...

KUWAIT: The head of theSyrian National Coalitionopposition group said on Sunday a thaw in relations between Washington and Tehran could strengthen President Bashar al-Assad's hand in Syria's civil war. Ahmed Jarbasaid a disbursement of Iranian funds frozen in overseas bank accounts as part of a deal under whichIranis to curb its nuclear activity in ...

(Reuters) - Invoking religious faith and desert folklore, Gulf officials proclaim wariness about a possible thaw in relations between their ally the United States and regional rivalIran. A former Iranian official says the Islamic Republic and its neighbours should learn peaceful coexistence, without Gulf relying on the West for security. U.S.-Iranian ...

Iranian Diplomacysinterview with Qassem Mohebbali, an expert on Syrian affairs: - It seems that the position of some Arab countries with regard to Syria has been weakened after the Geneva agreement. Some experts believe that, under the present conditions, the Syrian government will enter the scene of the Geneva-2 talks with a more powerful position....

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran's President Hassan Rouhani underscored that Iran and the US have to begin confidence-building measures before they could repair their damaged ties. Speaking in an interview with The Financial Times published on Friday, the Iranian president said that the ongoing nuclear negotiations are allowing the two sides to test whether ...

According to Israeli Likudnik parliamentarian Tzachi Hanegbi, after the G5+1 reached a deal with Iran, Netanyahu called Obama and made it clear to the most powerful man on Earth that if he intends to stay the most powerful man on Earth he had better stop making peace with Iran. That sounds like a threat to remove Obama from his job as the president ...