AP -- Plenty of inmates in American prisons have served long sentences before their convictions were reversed. Few have emerged from behind bars quite like Mahmoud Reza Banki. The Iranian-born, Ivy League-trained U.S. citizen has been on a quest to clear his name and draw attention to the hardships prisoners face when they are released into a suspicious ...

Anglo-Swiss commodity trader Glencore is the latest European energy entity to send its executives to Tehran in search of business opportunities amid hopes of a nuclear deal with Iran, a Thursday report said. Glencores head of oil Alex Beard traveled to Tehran this week with a small team to meet with officials at Irans Ministry of Petroleum and the ...

Israel has denounced Russia's decision to lift a ban on the delivery of S-300 missile systems to Iran as proof of Tehran's newfound "legitimacy" following a mutual nuclear understanding reached in Switzerland. "This is a direct result of the legitimacy that Iran is receiving from the nuclear deal that is being prepared, and proof that the Iranian ...

The European Union has recommended that sanctions be imposed on the Israeli regime over its settlement expansion policies in the occupied Palestinian territories and its strict security measures in East al-Quds (Jerusalem). In a recently-released report prepared by heads of diplomatic missions of EU member states in the Palestinian Authority, the ...

[caption id="attachment_135574" align="alignright" width="158"] A picture said to show a fireball after Israeli strike on sites inside Syria on December 7, 2014. (Screen capture: Channel 2)[/caption] (Reuters) -Syriaasked the United Nations Security Council on Monday to impose sanctions on neighboringIsrael, a day after accusing the Jewish state of ...

The Israeli finance minister has expressed concern over the growing boycotts,divestment'sand sanctions against the regime. Yair Lapid told Israel's Ynet News on Friday that "a continuation of the existing situation will hurt the pocketbook of all Israelis. Lapids remarks followed a Fridays announcement regarding Tel Avivs plans to build 1,400 ...

A senior Israeli official has blasted Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for directing Tel Aviv towards sanctions through unwillingness for progress in talks with the Palestinians. "Netanyahu's conduct is leading to sanctions, boycotting," said the unnamed official, Israeli website Ynet News reported on Friday. The premier had adopted the attitude,...

TEHRAN (FNA)- The international community should impose economic sanctions on Israel over its continued occupation of Palestinian territories, Palestinian ambassador to Nigeria Montaser Abuzaid said. "We need economic punishment for Israel. When you don't cooperate with Israel economically, they will understand what it means," Abuzaid told a press ...