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 ...

The representative of Iranian Jews at the parliament says Iran continues to distrust the US, unless Washington changes its hostile approach towards Tehran. Until the US has not changed its relations with Iran completely, they cannot be trusted, said Iranian Jewish lawmaker, Siamak Mareh-Sedq, on Friday. Alluding to the recent diplomatic interactions ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- Senior US army commanders in a meeting with President Barack Obama have recommended that he take the opportunity created by the new atmosphere in Iran after the election of President Hassan Rouhani and accelerate talks with Tehran. "Before President Rouhani's visit to New York (in late September to participate in the UN General Assembly ...

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- The Iranian foreign minister's parting words in Geneva carried hopes that the U.S. and other world powers could begin closing the gap with Tehran over its nuclear program. He returns home with perhaps an even tougher challenge at finding common ground. In a sharp counterpoint to the Western outreach by President Hassan Rouhani's ...

As Western diplomats hail positive progress at talks with Iran on its nuclear programme, the BBC's James Reynolds in Geneva looks at what may have brought the two sides closer together. For years, negotiators from the six world powers and Iran struggled to find ways to understand one another. The only thing they appeared to share was the same awkward ...

GENEVA: The Iranians have offered a two-step frameworkto resolve their nuclear crisis, a source close to the talks told Breaking Defense. Irans plan presented today to the United States and five other world powers is designed to show Irans good will and tolay the groundwork for a breakthrough. It outlines time frames for Iran to meet international ...

Tehran, Oct 15, IRNA The Americans once again proved that they are neither frank nor really eager to solve problems and hold meaningful dialogues, said Supreme Leaders Advisor in International Affairs Ali Akbar Velayati on Tuesday. The Americans once again proved they were neither well-intentioned, not as they claim really interested in solving the ...

In the wake of last month's historic phone call between President Barack Obama and Iran's new President Hassan Rouhani, Tuesday a much anticipated new round of negotiations began, to ensure to the world that Iran is not pursuing a nuclear weapon. Iran's Foreign Minister Javad Zarif presented Iran's nuclear proposal in a power-point presentation for ...

The Tehran Friday Prayer restated support for Hassan Rouhanis engagement of the West, with Ayatollah Ahmad Khatami calling for unity behind the Supreme Leader and the President: Internal strength is the most powerful weapon against the enemy. Elsewhere, however, there were reasons for Rouhani to be wary. Statements from politicians and clerics ...

Islamabad, Oct 9, IRNA -- A Pakistani educationist on Wednesday said that successful visit of Iranian President Hassan Rouhani to the United Nations (UN) has proved that conspiracies to isolate the Islamic Republic have been failed. Talking to IRNA Dr Rashid Ahmad Khan, Dean of Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at University of Sargodha said that ...

After decades of frosty relations between the U.S. and Iran, there are signs of a thaw - including the historic telephone call last month between President Barack Obama and his new Iranian counterpart, Hassan Rouhani. But ties between Tehran and America - the country it once called "Great Satan" - may now extend beyond the diplomatic table, and onto ...

Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has accused some media at home of distorting his remarks at a closed-door session where he briefed lawmakers on his visit to New York,Press TVreports. This all started after several Iranian lawmakers at the private meeting on Sunday quoted Zarif as saying that the telephone conversation between Iranian ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran has adopted its first confidence-building measure by accepting to continue talks on its peaceful nuclear program and is now waiting for the western powers to build Tehran's trust, a senior Iranian legislator said. "The Islamic Republic of Iran has taken the first step with a strong and reasonable logic based on its trust in ...

Mohammad Javad Zarif says on Facebook he has back pain after newspaper reports him describing contact as 'inappropriate'. Iran's foreign minister has admitted himself to hospital complaining of back pain and spasms he says he has suffered after a hardline newspaper misquoted him on the subject of the president's contact with the US. Mohammad Javad ...

Daily look at Iran's late-breaking news and upcoming events:   President opens 7th National Young Elites Conference President Hassan Rouhani inaugurated the seventh National Conference of Young Elites here Tuesday. Iran, S. Korea review ways for enhancement of ties Director-General for the East Asia-Pacific Affairs at Irans Foreign Ministry ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) Iranian Foreign Ministry on Tuesday described as inaccurate quotations ascribed to the foreign minister during his Sunday meeting with members of a parliamentary commission. The interpretations of the esteemed member(s) of parliament on the foreign ministers comments in his Sunday closed session with members of the National ...

Iranian lawmaker Mansour Haqiqatpour says Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has said that the telephone conversation between the Iranian and US presidents was a mistake. Iranian President Hassan Rouhani and US President Barack Obama held a telephone conversation on September 27 mainly focusing on Irans nuclear energy program. Mr. Zarif ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) An IRGC official contended that Washingtons willingness to launch talks with Tehran is a sign of its weakness. Hojjatoleslam Ali Saeedi, the Supreme Leaders representative in the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC), questioned the White Houses willingness to engage in talks with the Islamic Republic, saying such a move reveals ...

Tension, distrust, hostility: For more than 30 years, those words have described the relationship between Iran and the United States. But there's one other overriding word to describe it: silence. Since 1979, no American president had spoken with a leader of Iran. That all changed on Sept. 27, when President Obama entered the White House briefing ...

BALI, Indonesia Warming relations between the United States and Iran do not mean that the United States will back off its demands about Irans nuclear program, or roll back missile defenses in Europe aimed at intercepting an Iranian attack, Secretary of State John F. Kerry said Monday. Irans foreign minister, who met with Kerry last month at the United ...