White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest speaks during a press briefing at the White House in Washington July 9, 2015./ Iran will only see sanctions relief if it complies with the nuclear deal, White House spokesman Josh Earnest said on Thursday. Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, ...
NEW YORK — Iran's parliamentary debate about the nuclear deal with six world powers could be more heated than U.S. congressional proceedings on the pact, a top official of the Middle East nation said Thursday. "I think maybe the drama in my country may be bigger than that of yours," Iran ...
Iran's parliament speaker on Thursday said he expected a raucous debate in the Iranian legislature over approval of the nuclear deal which he said could unleash more drama than in the US Congress./ Ali Larijani, who backs the agreement reached with the West, declined to say whether he believed ...
Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Thursday urged his country's parliament to vote on whether to implement a proposed nuclear deal with the U.S. and five other world powers, even as Israel's prime minister vowed to continue lobbying against the pact. The sharply divergent positions, ...
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Iran's Parliament speaker said Thursday he expects a heated debate among Iranian lawmakers before they vote on the nuclear deal between his country and six world powers in about a month./ Ali Larijani, formerly Iran's top nuclear negotiator, predicted Iran's debate would be ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Iran nuclear deal strongly backed by President Barack Obama and just as ardently opposed by the GOP is now on track to get through Congress./ In the Senate, Democratic supporters now claim a decisive 34 votes in favor, after Sen. Barbara Mikulski of Maryland called the pact ...
Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has been in power since 1989 (AFP Photo/-)/ Tehran (AFP) - Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei warned anew Thursday that there could be no nuclear deal with the West if sanctions imposed on Tehran are not lifted./ Khamenei, who has the last ...
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran's supreme leader said Thursday "there will be no deal" if world powers insist on suspending rather than lifting sanctions as part of a landmark nuclear agreement, and said it is up to Iran's parliament, and not him, to approve or reject it. His remarks, read aloud by a ...
Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei speaks live on television after casting his ballot in the Iranian presidential election in Tehran June 12, 2009./ Iran's Supreme Leader said on Thursday he favored a parliamentary vote on its nuclear deal reached with world powers and called for ...
In this picture released by the official website of the office of the Iranian supreme leader, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei delivers a speech during a meeting in Tehran, Aug. 17, 2015./ Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei expressed support Thursday for a parliamentary vote in ...
Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu is strongly opposed to the nuclear agreement between Iran and six major powers (AFP Photo/Ronen Zvulun)/ Jerusalem (AFP) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu defended Thursday his high-profile campaign to defeat the Iran nuclear deal after President Barack ...
Iran's Supreme Leader said on Thursday he backed a parliamentary vote on a historic nuclear deal reached with six major powers and said sanctions against his country should be lifted completely rather than suspended, state television reported. "The parliament should not be sidelined on the ...
The speaker of Iran's parliament on Thursday predicted that the debate among Iranian lawmakers on the nuclear agreement between Tehran and major powers will likely be more dramatic than in the U.S. Congress, where Republicans have sought to kill the deal. Earlier on Thursday Iran's Supreme ...
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu insisted on Thursday most Americans agreed with Israel over dangers posed by Iran, even as he lost a battle to persuade the U.S. Congress to reject Tehran's nuclear deal with world powers including Washington. In remarks at a Jewish New ...
Iran's supreme leader says excluding lawmakers `not expedient'/ Khamenei says `no deal' if sanctions suspended and not removed/ Iran’s parliament will have the final say on July’s nuclear agreement with world powers, with lawmakers expected to vote in about a month, the speaker of parliament ...
Iran's supreme leader says world powers must lift international sanctions and not merely suspend them as part of a landmark nuclear agreement. Speaking to a group of clerics, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said "there will be no deal" if the sanctions are not lifted. His remarks were read by a state TV ...
A man killed his wife and three of his children in an apparent murder-suicide mass shooting at a home in Oklahoma, according to police. Oklahoma City police said they were notified around 9:35 a.m. Monday and responding officers found the five bodies inside the house. Jonathon Candy, 42, ...
A UN report into the Palestinian refugee agency UNRWA has concluded it must do more to improve its neutrality, staff vetting and transparency./ But the independent review also said that Israel had failed to back up a claim that many of the agency's staff belonged to terror groups./ Some of ...
An Uber driver from Southern California is looking to spread the word on the potential risks associated with being a rideshare driver after he was violently assaulted by a passenger over the weekend. that he comes to the L.A. area from his home in the Antelope Valley on the weekends since there ...
Donald Trump won’t be getting his way in his New York hush money trial—at least, not without consequences. Presiding Judge Juan Merchan decided Monday that prosecutors can cross-examine the former president on prior judgements and gag order violations. This is only relevant if Trump takes the ...
GOOSE CREEK, S.C. (AP) — Out of air and pinned by an alligator to the bottom of the Cooper River in South Carolina, Will Georgitis decided his only chance to survive might be to lose his arm. The alligator had fixed his jaws around Georgitis' arm and after he tried to escape by stabbing it with ...
A premature baby was saved when doctors performed an emergency caesarean in Rafah, after the city was hit by Israeli air strikes on Saturday night. Her mother, Sabreen, could not be saved, and died along with the baby's father and sister. Medics said the baby was born in respiratory distress and ...
which sparked settler rampage/ A Palestinian man has been arrested over the murder of a 14-year-old Israeli boy, whose disappearance from an outpost in the occupied West Bank sparked a deadly rampage by settlers./ Benjamin Achimeir went missing on 12 April after going to herd sheep near the ...
Trump Organization civil trial in New York State Supreme Court in New York/ tried to convince a judge on Monday that the insurer that provided the former U.S. president with a $175 million bond in his New York civil fraud case was empowered and strong enough to issue the guarantee. The bond ...
North Korean illustrators and graphic designers appear to have helped produce work for US animation studios unbeknownst to those companies, suggesting that unreleased episodes of a few popular American cartoons could include work from one of the most closed-off economies in the world. The ...
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Terry Anderson, the globe-trotting Associated Press correspondent who became one of America’s longest-held hostages after he was snatched from a street in war-torn Lebanon in 1985 and held for nearly seven years, has died at 76. Anderson, who chronicled his abduction and ...