TEHRAN (FNA)- French President Francois Hollandeon Monday expressed his "strong condemnation" of alleged US spying during a phone call with US President Barack Obama, branding it as "unacceptable" between friends and allies, said the French Presidency Elysee in a statement released on Tuesday.
France's newspaper Le Monde reported on Monday that ...
WASHINGTON TheCIA's chief of Iran operations was placed on paid administrative leave and sent home from agency headquarters after an internal investigation found he had created an abusive and hostile work environment that put a crucial division in disarray, according to current and former officials.
Officers and analysts in the Iran operations ...
WHITE HOUSE President Barack Obama unveiled reforms Friday in the vast surveillance being conducted by the country's clandestine National Security Agency.
Aiming to calm uproar over NSA telecommunications surveillance, Obama outlined plans to end government control of an enormous cache of bulk phone records about calls made by Americans and foreigners,...
TEHRAN, Dec. 28 (MNA) A federal court on Friday has declared that mass collection of domestic telephone data by NSA is all legal, Washington Post published on Saturday.
U.S. District Judge William H. Pauley III said Friday that the program, which collects virtually all Americans phone records, represents the U.S. governments counter-punch to eliminate ...
'The Guardian' and 'The New York Times' cite British intelligence document indicating that surveillance was conducted against Israeli leaders, other allies.
Israel has refused to issue an official reaction to the revelations made public byThe Guardianon Friday regarding American and British surveillance of former prime minister Ehud Olmert and ex-...
President Obama held a news conference on Friday before departing with his family for a two-week vacation in Hawaii, and Times reporters provided updates and analysis during the event.
Mr. Obama said he expected more announcements in the new year about staffing changes in the White House. The president said his current staff was tireless and shares ...
TEHRAN, Dec. 18 (MNA) After a ruling by a federal judge was seen to vindicate the whistleblowing of Edward Snowden, the former NSA contractor published "an open letter" to the people of Brazil.
"I've expressed my willingness to assist where it's appropriate and legal, but, unfortunately, the US government has been working hard to limit my ability ...
[caption id="attachment_39280" align="alignright" width="180"] A group of protesters against US electronic spying operations express support for protecting Edward Snowden (file photo).[/caption]
TEHRAN (Tasnim) - A White House-appointed task force is to recommend an overhaul of the National Security Agency, including changing the controversial bulk ...
TEHRAN, Dec. 10 (MNA) To the National Security Agency analyst writing a briefing to his superiors, the situation was clear: their current surveillance efforts were lacking something.
The agency's impressive arsenal of cable taps and sophisticated hacking attacks was not enough. What it really needed was a horde of undercover Orcs.
That vision ...
Newly revealed documents show the US National Security Agency spied on the G8 and G20 summits held in the Canadian city of Toronto in 2010, with the help of the host countrys government.
Documents obtained from former US intelligence contractor Edward Snowden show the US embassy in Ottawa turned into a command post for the six-day spying operation ...
Intelligence officials in the US and Britain are worried that former US intelligence contractor Edward Snowden, whose revelations in June triggered a massive spying scandal, may have stored a doomsday cache of highly classified documents.
According to seven current and former US officials and other anonymous sources who spoke to Reuters, the collection ...
TEHRAN, Nov. 16 (MNA) The contemporary American scientist and award-winning author Glen David Brin once made an astutely brilliant statement, which he probably didnt know would come true about one of the most shameful debacles of the recent history for the U.S. government; however, he wisely said: When it comes to privacy and accountability, people ...
TEHRAN (FNA)- The US spy agencies have been tapping the phone calls between the Iranian and Pakistani officials on the multi-billion-dollar gas pipeline project which can settle the energy crisis in the South Asian country, a Pakistani newspaper disclosed on Tuesday.
The US is not ready to show the smallest flexibility in its efforts to thwart ...
TEHRAN, Nov. 5 (MNA) There are growing calls in Germany not only to question Edward Snowden in connection with the ongoing NSA scandal, but also to offer him safe passage and asylum. Yet the heads of the two major political camps fear the wrath of the United States.
Strbele, a lawmaker from the Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg election district in Berlin,...
TEHRAN (FNA)- "Barack Obama is not George W. Bush," the liberal French philosopher Bernard-Henri Lvy said, and added, "Everybody knows that."
Until a few years ago, "everybody" included Edward Snowden. The 29-year-old former CIA technical assistant, responsible for one of the biggest intelligence leaks in US history, first considered "exposing ...
US security services shared data collected through eavesdropping with Jerusalem and secretly tracked Israeli military actions, the NSA documents leaked to the Guardian by whistleblower Edward Snowden and published in The New York Times, revealed.
The documents disclose how US agents spied on leaders from Iranian Ayatollah Ali Khamenei to UN ...
The United States has refused to deny whether it is spying on Israeli politicians following leaks of secret documents about Washingtons eavesdropping on phone conversations of 35 world leaders.
"I don't think it's really appropriate for me in this setting, to comment on the issue, Undersecretary of State Wendy Sherman told Israels Channel 10 on Sunday ...
TEHRAN, Nov. 3 (MNA) Germany and the United States plan to ink a no-spy agreement next year to prohibit the bilateral spying of citizens and governments as a consequence of the U.S. spying scandal, a German newspaper reported in its Sunday edition.
The initative came after German and U.S. officials held talks at the White House earlier in the week,...
TEHRAN, Nov. 2 (MNA) Germany and Brazil circulated a draft resolution to a U.N. General Assembly committee on Friday that calls for an end to excessive electronic surveillance, data collection and other gross invasions of privacy.
The draft resolution, which both Germany and Brazil made public, does not name any specific countries, although U.N. ...
The US is secretly using Australian embassies throughout Asia to intercept phone calls and collect data across the continent.
Documents leaked by former US intelligence contractor Edward Snowden have blown the lid on a signals intelligence collection program, codenamed STATEROOM, conducted from sites at US embassies and consulates and from diplomatic ...
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