Portraying Iranian President Hassan Rouhani as a genuine pragmatist, Former UK Foreign Secretary Jack Straw expressed optimism to CNNs Christiane Amanpour on Tuesday that a nuclear deal with the West was possible.
Direct nuclear talks, ushered in by the election of Rouhani earlier this year, began Tuesday in Geneva.
Straw, as foreign secretary,...
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The bilateral talks at the U.N.'s Palais des Nations last for an hour and signal further easing of tension in the dispute over Iran's nuclear program.
GENEVA Iranian diplomats Tuesday laid out a ...
(Reuters) - The United States would welcome a further bilateral meeting withIranon the sidelines of nuclear negotiations between Tehran and six major powers that began in Geneva on Tuesday, a U.S. State Department spokeswoman said.
"We would welcome an opportunity for a bilateral and have said so," Deputy State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf said ...
The United States and Iran will hold bilateral talks on the sidelines of the negotiations between Iran and the Western powers, scheduled for Tuesday in Geneva, Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi said on Sunday. Araqchi, who will head the Iranian negotiating team, told the Islamic Republics News Agency that it would only be normal to exchange ...
An Iranian activist says President Hassan Rouhanis visit to New York and his phone conversation with US President Barack Obama is expected to mend broken ties between Tehran and Washington.
It seems that the ice of diplomatic stalemate between Iran and the United States is gradually melting, Kourosh Ziabari wrote in a column for Press TV on Saturday....
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has welcomed recent diplomatic developments in ties between Iran and the United States, saying the rapprochement can have a positive impact on various issues.
If the Americans are, lets say, honest about this rapprochement, I think the results will be positive regarding the different issues, not just the Syrian crisis,...
WASHINGTON The long-fractured relationship between the United States and Iran took a significant turn on Friday when President Obama and President Hassan Rouhani became the first leaders of their countries to speak since the Tehran hostage crisis more than three decades ago.
In a hurriedly arranged telephone call, Mr. Obama reached Mr. Rouhani ...
Tehran, Sept 28, IRNA Former International Atomic Energy Agency Secretary-General, Mohamed ElBaradei has said negotiations between Iran and the US is the key to restoration of security and stability to the Middle East, Egyptian media reported.
ElBaradei, also a former Egyptian vice-president for foreign affairs, said in his Twitter page that tension ...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Iranian president, his visit to the U.S. nearing its end, makes contact with the White House. As his car inches through New York's snarled traffic, he hears Barack Obama's voice on the phone as the U.S. president sits at his desk in the Oval Office.
Fifteen minutes later, the two men say goodbye in each other's language.
And ...
The surprise first phone contact Friday between presidents Barack Obama and Hassan Rouhani was not only a dramatic moment in U.S.-Iranian ties, but also in the field of digital diplomacy.
Moments before the U.S. leader announced from the White House podium that he had had a chat with his opposite number, the Iranian president had sent a tweet that ...
(Reuters) - Hundreds of Iranians cheered President Hassan Rouhani on his return from New York on Saturday after his historic phone call with U.S. PresidentBarack Obamabut a smaller number of hardliners shouted "Death to America" and threw eggs and shoes at his official car leaving the airport, Iranian media reported.
While an anticipated handshake ...
Apolitical analyst has warned of efforts by anti-Iran political figures and the Israeli lobby in the US to impede the positive process which has begun on the standoff over Tehrans nuclear energy program.
In a Friday interview withPress TV, Danny Schechter pointed to Irans successful Thursday talks with the six world powers over the issues surrounding ...
UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- Iranian President Hassan Rouhani called the United States a "great" nation Friday in a sharp reversal from his predecessors and expressed hope that at the very least the two governments can stop the escalation of tensions.
Wrapping up his first trip to the United States as Iran's new leader, Rouhani said President Barack Obama ...
An Iranian lawmaker says the Iranian delegation to the 68th Session of the UN General Assembly in New York conveyed Tehrans message of peace and friendship, adding it is now up to the US and other Western countries to take practical steps.
In reaction to the Islamic Republic of Irans explicit and transparent statements, we expect the other sides to ...
Presidents Obama and Rouhani are the first American and Iranian leaders to speak directly since the 1979 revolution in Iran. Rouhani is under pressure back home to show rapid progress.
In a historic moment that could eventually redefine a generation of US-Iran enmity,President Barack Obama spoke to Iranian President Hassan Rouhani by phone today.
The ...
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Iran ready for nuclear talks with transparency: Rouhani
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani says the Islamic Republic of Iran poses no threat to the world and Tehran is ready for talks on its nuclear energy program with complete transparency.
Judiciary chief: Time for US ...
TEHRAN (FNA)- A senior Iranian legislator said before speaking about talks with Tehran, Washington should account for its long-term animosity towards the Iranian nation and do more to win Iran's trust.
"The Iranian nation will never withdraw from its principles but if the US is ready to discuss practical policies and minor issues and the issues ...
TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Defense Minister Brigadier General Hossein Dehqan underlined Tehran's readiness to show more transparency in its nuclear issue, and said the US and other western countries should recognize Iran's rights to enter talks based on equal footing.
"Our nation is at a level of might that can enter negotiations with full confidence ...
While American officials say the near miss betweenPresident Obamaand President Hassan Rouhani of Iran at the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday means little to the ultimate fate of negotiations with Iran over itsnuclear program, it does illustrate the acute political sensitivities that will affect both leaders as they try to embark on a diplomatic ...
An Iranian lawmaker has warned against Israels efforts to isolate Iran, saying Tel Aviv is afraid of the normalization of ties between the Islamic Republic and the United States.
Unfortunately, some US officials are backed by the Zionist regimes lobbies and the Zionist regime has concentrated its efforts on preventing the reestablishment of Iran-US ...
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