Negotiations over Iran's nuclear programme will resume this week against a backdrop of tough talk from leaders in Tehran and Washington, which has complicated the already-difficult task of resolving a decade-old row over uranium enrichment. Negotiators will meet in Vienna on Tuesday, February 18, four weeks after Iran began suspending high-level uranium ...

PresidentBarack Obama, rejecting congressional demands to impose new economic sanctions on Iran, said theres no reason to do it right now when negotiations are under way over the Islamic Republics nuclear program. Listen, I dont think the Iranians have any doubt that Congress would be more than happy to pass more sanctions legislation, Obama said ...

Tehran, Dec 14, IRNA Chairman of Assembly of Expediency Ayatollah Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani said on Saturday that US extremists are bent on killing the Geneva Accord. He told a group of students that extremists both in Iran and the US follow a common goal, that is to kill the Geneva Accord. He said the US President Barack Obama is also under pressure ...

For foreign policy hard-liners, nothing is quite so unnerving as peace negotiations. The nearer an agreement seems, the more they fret that too much will be given away. Better, they think, to hang tough until the other side capitulates. But the likeliest alternative to the suddenly promising negotiations over Iran's nuclear program is not capitulation....