UNITED NATIONS, Sep 25 2013 (IPS)- While the U.S. and Iranian heads of state have yet to meet, the 68thsession of the United Nations General Assembly may mark a new era between the two countries. After more than 30 years of frozen US-Iran relations, President Barack Obama announced Tuesday during his address to the world body that Secretary of State ...

Daily look at Iran's late-breaking news and upcoming events:   Irans Zarif meets with UKs Hague in New York Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and UK Foreign Secretary William Hague have met and discussed,inter alia, the improvement of Tehran-London relations.   Iranian police seize over 240 tons of narcotics in 6 months Irans ...

Irans former President Seyyed Mohammad Khatami says Israel has launched a smear campaign against President Hassan Rouhani because the Tel Aviv regime fears a potential removal of tensions between the Islamic Republic and the West. On the eve of Rouhanis speech at the UN, Israel has again begun a campaign to discredit him because it fears the end of ...

President Rouhani's UN speech can reignite the diplomacy that over a decade ago I saw was the only path to a better world. As Hassan Rouhani, the president of the Islamic republic of Iran, prepares to deliver a speech on Tuesday to the UN general assembly, advocating"constructive engagement"with the world, I reflect on my own experience as president ...