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This Time, Iran Nuke Talks Might Actually Work

John Johnson — Sat, 19 May 2012 09:06:27 CDT

Negotiators from Iran sit down with those from the US and five other nations Wednesday, and a rare thing is emerging from much of the advance coverage—a sense that Tehran is genuinely ready to curb its nuclear program. The New York Times says as much today with its top...

Kofi Annan Asks Iran for Help With Syria

Kevin Spak — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 08:13:24 CDT

Kofi Annan isn't panicking just because the Syrian regime blew off yesterday's ceasefire deadline . Annan says Bashar al-Assad's regime has assured him that it will respect the ceasefire plan and end hostilities tomorrow morning, the BBC reports. "If everyone respects it, I think by six in the morning of Thursday,...

UN Arrives in Iran for Tense Talks

Mon, 20 Feb 2012 07:53:22 CST

UN nuclear inspectors starting a two-day visit to Tehran today sought to meet Iranian nuclear scientists and visit a key military facility as they try to gauge allegations that Iran is pushing toward making an atomic weapon. The trip is the second in less than a month by the International...

Admiral: Iran Has Suicide Boats

Mark Russell — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 08:20:44 CST

Iran has significantly built up its naval arsenal, adding more fast attack boats and some ships that "have been outfitted with a large warhead that could be used as a suicide explosive device," US Vice Admiral Mark Fox told reporters yesterday, according to Reuters . Iran also now has 10 small...

Iran Sentences American to Death for Spying

Mary Papenfuss — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 03:43:04 CST

An American has been sentenced to death in Iran for spying for the CIA. Former US Marine Amir Mirzai Hekmati, 28, was convicted of "cooperating with a hostile nation." Hekmati, who also has Iranian citizenship, was shown on state TV last month confessing that he spied for the CIA. His...

Russia Catches Iranian With Radioactive Metal

Kevin Spak — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 13:02:05 CST

Russian custom agents have seized 18 pieces of radioactive metal from an Iranian man who was trying to board a flight to Tehran, the customs agency announced today. The incident occurred sometime in the past—the agency didn't specify when—at Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport. The man's luggage triggered the airport...

Iran Embassy Raiders Stole Invasion Plans—for D-Day

Rob Quinn — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 06:28:17 CST

The Iranians who ransacked the British embassy in Tehran last week made off with some documents labeled "Most Secret" that outlined plans for a massive invasion involving the UK and the US. The intel comes nearly 70 years too late, however: The stolen documents dated from 1943 and outlined Operation...

UK Shuts Iran's Embassy, Kicks Out Diplomats

Kate Schwartz — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 09:00:43 CST

The UK today announced "the immediate closure" of Iran's embassy in London following yesterday's invasion of the British embassy in Tehran—and it's not the only embassy to close. The AP reports that Norway has elected to shutter its embassy in the Iranian capital over security concerns. A foreign ministry...

Iranians Storm British Embassy

Kevin Spak — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 09:01:47 CST

Hard-line Iranian students stormed the British embassy in Tehran today, surging past riot police, scaling the compound’s walls, and pelting the buildings inside with rocks and petrol bombs. They then pulled down the British flag, burned it, and replaced it with an Iranian one, the semi-official Mehr News Agency reported....