WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama and new Iranian President Hassan Rouhani held a historic phone call on Friday, in the highest level conversation between the estranged nations in more than three decades. Speaking to reporters at the White House, Obama said both men had ...
President Barack Obama gestures while making a statement regarding the budget fight in Congress and foreign policy challenges, Sept. 27, 2013, at the White House in Washington./ U.S. President Barack Obama says he has spoken by phone with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, the first direct ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama and Iranian President Hassan Rouhani spoke by phone on Friday, the highest-level contact between the two countries since the Iranian Revolution in 1979 and a sign that both sides are serious about reaching a pact on Iran's nuclear program. Obama had ...
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani addresses a High-Level Meeting on Nuclear Disarmament during the 68th United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters in New York, September 26, 2013./ (Reuters) - New Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said on Friday he wanted talks with major powers on ...
New Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said on Friday he wanted talks with major powers on Iran's nuclear program to yield results in a short period of time and that the improved mood in U.S.-Iranian relations could lead to better ties. "The atmosphere (in Iran-U.S. ties) is quite different from ...
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Iran's new president said Friday that President Barack Obama struck a new tone in his U.N. speech this week that left him optimistic about easing tensions between the two countries. Hassan Rouhani also said the recent elections that propelled him to the Iranian presidency ...
Iran wants rapid progress on talks. But as Iran's foreign minister said, all parties will have to 'match our words with actions.'/ At the end of a dramatic week at the United Nations General Assembly, moribund nuclear talks with Iran have been revitalized, potentially heralding unprecedented ...
(Jason DeCrow/ Associated Press ) - CORRECTS DATE TO THURSDAY, SEPT. 26, 2013 FROM WEDNESDAY - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, left, and Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif attend a meeting of the five permanent members of the Security Council plus Germany during the 68th session ...
Iran and the U.N. nuclear agency held "constructive" talks on Friday about Iran's disputed atomic program and said they would meet again on October 28. Herman Nackaerts, deputy director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), said the discussions had been "very constructive" ...
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, left, and Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif at U.N. headquarters Thursday./ UNITED NATIONS — The top diplomats from the United States and Iran met privately Thursday on the sidelines of a larger negotiating session about Iran’s disputed nuclear ...
U.S. President Barack Obama says he has spoken by phone with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, the first direct contact between the leaders of the United States and Iran since 1979. Mr. Obama told reporters at the White House Friday that he and Mr. Rouhani had constructive talks. President Obama ...
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) chief nuclear inspector Herman Nackaerts arrives for a meeting about Tehran's disputed nuclear programme at the Iranian embassy in Vienna September 27, 2013./ (Reuters) - Iran played down prospects for a quick breakthrough in talks with the U.N. nuclear ...
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.S. and its international partners emerged from a meeting with Iran declaring that a "window of opportunity has opened" to peacefully settle their nuclear standoff. But diplomats asked Tehran to come back with a detailed plan of action to reassure the world it is not ...
Iran's envoy to the U.N. nuclear watchdog played down prospects for a quick breathrough in talks on Friday with the agency on Tehran's disputed atomic program. Reza Najafi, Iran's ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency, was asked by reporters whether he expected an agreement in ...
UNITED NATIONS — After meeting one-on-one with Iran’s foreign minister, Secretary of State John Kerry says he is pleased with a new positive tone from Iran on talks over its nuclear program. But, he says one meeting with Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif is not going to resolve international ...
Vienna (Austria) (AFP) - Following a diplomatic frenzy in New York, Iran was due Friday to hold talks with the UN atomic agency, their 11th such meeting but the first since Hassan Rouhani's election. The International Atomic Energy Agency regularly inspects Iran's nuclear activities and every ...
US Secretary of State John Kerry and Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif held a brief yet historic bilateral meeting at the UN Thursday as the Security Council met to discuss Iran's nuclear program. All sides predict future talks will be 'substantive' and 'ambitious.'/ at the United Nations ...
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Iran and the United States held their highest-level substantive talks in a generation on Thursday, saying the tone was positive but sounding cautious about resolving the long-running standoff over Iran's nuclear program. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Iranian ...
Secretary of State Kerry calls the talks "constructive" but says actions must match words/ Diplomats are pleased with a more positive tone from Iran/ It was the highest-level direct contact between the U.S. and Iran in six years/ "I am satisfied with this first step," Iranian foreign minister ...
Iran meets IAEA day after talks at UN in New York * Will meet again for "substantial" talks on Oct. 28 * New president seeks end to dispute within six months VIENNA, Sept 27 (Reuters) - Iran and the U.N. nuclear agency held "constructive" talks on Friday and said they would meet again in a ...
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — European diplomats said Thursday they were pleased by a new tone and attitude from Iran in talks aimed at resolving the impasse over its nuclear program and set a new round of negotiations for next month. European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton said the meeting ...
elect Hasan Rowhani waves at the start of a news conference in Tehran on Monday. Iran's new president pledged to follow a "path of moderation" and promised greater openness over the country's nuclear program./ UNITED NATIONS -- U.S. and European diplomats said Thursday they were pleased by a new ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. and Iranian officials emerged upbeat on Thursday from a meeting on Iran's nuclear program but both sides also sounded a cautionary note, with the United States saying there was more work to do and Iran insisting on quick sanctions relief. "Needless to say, one meeting ...
British Foreign Minister William Hague (L). shakes hands with Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif at the beginning of their bilateral meeting at the United Nations in New York September 23, 2013./ (Reuters) - The tone and spirit of a meeting on Thursday between six world powers and Iran ...
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Iran's new government began its first talks on its nuclear program with the United States and five other world powers on Thursday, with the Iranian foreign minister taking a seat next to U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry in a rare high-level contact between the two ...
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton says talks between Iran, the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council and Germany were "substantial" and have set the stage for a new round of negotiations over Iran's nuclear program next month. Speaking after Thursday's ...
Iranian officials held talks Friday with the International Atomic Energy Agency, their first meeting with the U.N. body since Hassan Rouhani was elected Iran's president in June. IAEA chief negotiator Herman Nackaerts called the talks in Vienna "very constructive" and said the two sides would ...
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Iran and six world powers headed into nuclear talks at the U.N. on Thursday with U.S. officials tamping down expectations of any quick breakthrough. The meeting will mark the highest-level direct contact between the United States and Iran in six years as Secretary of State ...
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Iran has begun talks with six world powers at the U.N. on its disputed nuclear program. Ahead of the meeting on Thursday, U.S. officials tried to tamp down expectations of any quick breakthrough. The meeting marks the highest-level direct contact between the United States ...
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry made history Thursday, holding one-on-one nuclear talks talks with Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif. Their meeting in New York was the highest level talks between U.S. and Iranian officials since the Islamic revolution of 1979, when American hostages were ...
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The tone and spirit of a meeting on Thursday between six world powers and Iran on Tehran's nuclear program was "extremely good," British Foreign Secretary William Hague said. Hague made the comment after the meeting he attended with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad ...
Speaking at the UN disarmament conference, Iranian President Rouhani said 'there are no right hands for these wrong weapons.'/ said today that “no nation should possess nuclear weapons” and that any use of them would be a “crime against humanity.”/ nuclear disarmament conference, Mr. Rouhani ...
Elise Labott. Michael Pearson and Joe Sterling, CNN/ The U.S. and Iran have had no high-level face-to-face contact since the 1979 revolution/ Secretary of State John Kerry and Iran's foreign minister are to meet along with others/ In U.N. remarks, Iran's president cites the threat of nuclear ...
Head of the Israeli delegation at the UN General Assembly Yuval Steinitz (R) in New York on September 25, 2013. (AFP Photo/Emmanuel Dunand)/ New York City (AFP) - Israel on Thursday denounced Iran's call to acknowledge its nuclear weapons, accusing new leader Hassan Rouhani of diverting ...
Iran has sharply criticized the U.N. nuclear watchdog over "baseless allegations" about its atomic activity, a document showed before talks between the two sides on Friday to discuss a stalled inquiry into suspected bomb research by Tehran. The uncompromising language in the paper, and the fact ...
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Heading into a historic meeting on Tehran's disputed nuclear activities, Iran's new president called on Israel on Thursday to join an international treaty banning the spread of nuclear weapons, chiding the Jewish state for being the only Mideast nation that has failed to do ...
The United States and China agree it is important for Tehran to respond positively to existing nuclear proposals by six major powers, U.S. officials said ahead of a meeting on Thursday between Iran and the five permanent U.N. Security Council members and Germany. "Both the U.S. and China believe ...
Hassan Rouhani, President of Iran, waits to speak at the 68th Session of the United Nations General Assembly September 24, 2013, New York (AFP Photo/Timothy Clary)/ New York City (AFP) - Iran's President Hassan Rouhani on Thursday called on Israel to join the Non-Proliferation Treaty and put its ...
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Iran's new president is calling on Israel to join an international treaty banning the spread of nuclear weapons. Thursday's comments by Iranian President Hasan Rouhani come hours before a meeting that will mark the highest-level direct contact in six years between the ...
IAEA talks follow world powers meeting with Iran at U.N. * New Iran president pledged to try to resolve dispute * Friday's talks litmus test of shift in style, substance VIENNA, Sept 27 (Reuters) - Iran's envoy to the U.N. nuclear watchdog played down prospects for a quick breakthrough in talks ...
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javed Zarif speaks during news conference with Iraqi counterpart Hoshyar Zebari, Sep. 8, 2013./ World leaders are scheduled to hold talks on Thursday with Iran's top diplomat regarding the country's nuclear program. The meeting comes amid fresh signs that Tehran ...
The United States and Iran have held the highest level direct talks in over 30 years on the sidelines of a meeting in New York aimed at resolving the standoff over Tehran's nuclear program. Following a meeting with leaders from five other world powers on Thursday, U.S. Secretary of State John ...
U.S. is holding preliminary talks with Iran Thursday/ The West fears Iran may soon be able to make a nuclear weapon/ TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran's foreign minister is urging step-by-step compromises between his country and world powers to advance negotiations over Tehran's nuclear ambitions. ...
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, left, and French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius shake hands before conducting a bilateral meeting during the 68th session of the United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters, Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2013. (AP Photo/Jason DeCrow)/ TEHRAN, Iran ...
The U.S. and its international partners emerged from a meeting with Iran declaring that a "window of opportunity has opened" to peacefully settle their nuclear standoff. But diplomats asked Tehran to come back with a detailed plan of action to reassure the world it is not trying to build an ...
Six major powers and Iran on Thursday agreed to meet in Geneva next month for further talks on resolving the standoff with Tehran on its nuclear program, the European Union's foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton said on Thursday. "We had a discussion about how we would go forward with an ...
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Iran's new government, stepping up a campaign to project a more moderate image abroad, said on Wednesday it wants to jump-start talks with world powers to resolve a decade-long dispute over its nuclear program and hoped for a deal in three to six months. Iranian ...
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani wipes his brow as he speaks during the 68th Session of the United Nations General Assembly September 24, 2013 at UN headquarters in New York. (AFP Photo/Brendan McDermid)/ Washington (AFP) - Iranian President Hassan Rouhani wants to reach an agreement over the ...
The United States and China have agreed on the need for Tehran to respond positively to existing nuclear proposals by the major powers ahead of a meeting Thursday between Iran and the five permanent U.N. Security Council members and Germany. A U.S. official said both Washington and Beijing ...
- Foreign ministers from the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council and Germany will meet with Iran's top diplomat on Thursday to test the Islamic Republic's apparent willingness to reach a deal to resolve international concerns about its nuclear program after years of defiance. The ...
NEW YORK (AP) — Iran's foreign minister says his country and key world powers have agreed to try to fast-track negotiations over Iran's disputed nuclear program to within a year. Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif spoke at the Asia Society shortly after meeting foreign ministers from the five ...
Secretary of State John Kerry, along with fellow diplomats, met briefly Thursday with his Iranian counterpart, marking the highest-level meeting between the two countries since the Iranian revolution of 1979./ EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton later described the talks as “substantial” ...
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Iran's foreign minister is calling nuclear talks with world powers "very constructive" and "very substantive" and says he hopes to allay any concern that Tehran's activities are not peaceful. Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif made clear Thursday that his country is ...
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — After meeting one-on-one with Iran's foreign minister, Secretary of State John Kerry says he is pleased with a new positive tone from Iran on talks over its nuclear program. But, he says one meeting with Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif is not going to resolve ...
on-one with Iran's foreign minister, Secretary of State John Kerry says he is pleased with a new positive tone from Iran on talks over its nuclear program. But, he says one meeting with Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif is not going to resolve international concerns about Iran's nuclear ...
BEIJING, Sept. 26 (Xinhuanet) -- Foreign Ministers from the five permanent members of the UN Security Council, and Germany say they’ll meet Iranian officials on Thursday, to discuss the resumption of formal talks on the country’s nuclear program. It follows the latest comments by new Iranian ...
— World powers and Iran agreed Thursday to pursue what appears to be the most promising bid in years to resolve the standoff over Irans nuclear program, an effort that was boosted by a brief but unprecedented face-to-face meeting between the United States and the Islamic Republic after more ...
President says a positive sign is that Western leaders 'sounded different' this week/ International Atomic Energy Agency chief inspector Herman Nackaerts, right, and Iranian Ambassador to the IAEA Reza Najafi met in Vienna on Friday, with both expressing caution but also optimism that a deal ...
World leaders hold nuclear talks Thursday with Iran's top diplomat, amid signs Tehran is looking to negotiate a settlement over its controversial nuclear program. Most analysts do not expect a breakthrough at the meeting on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly in New York. But diplomats ...
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Iran's new president said Friday that President Barack Obama struck a new tone in his U.N. speech this week that left him optimistic about easing tensions between the two countries. Hassan Rouhani also said the recent elections that propelled him to the Iranian presidency ...
World leaders hold nuclear talks Thursday with Iran's top diplomat, amid fresh signs Tehran is looking to negotiate a settlement over its controversial nuclear program. Most analysts do not expect a breakthrough at the meeting on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly in New York. But ...
President says a positive sign is that Western leaders 'sounded different' this week/ International Atomic Energy Agency chief inspector Herman Nackaerts, right, and Iranian Ambassador to the IAEA Reza Najafi met in Vienna on Friday, with both expressing caution but also optimism that a deal ...
Talks with IAEA will take time, country's envoy says/ Iran played down prospects for a quick breakthrough in talks with the United Nations nuclear agency on Friday over a stalled inquiry into its atomic work, the first such meeting under the new, relatively moderate Iranian government. The ...
Kerry, other diplomats to meet with Iran's Zarif on Thursday * Meeting in New York marks rare U.S.-Iranian encounter * Western powers, Iran want concrete steps from each other * Zarif says Iran has "political will" for serious talks UNITED NATIONS, Sept 25 (Reuters) - Iran's new government, ...
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Foreign ministers from the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council and Germany will meet with Iran's top diplomat on Thursday to test the Islamic Republic's apparent willingness to reach a deal to resolve international concerns about its nuclear program after ...
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Iran showed new urgency Wednesday to revive stalled negotiations with six world powers over its disputed nuclear activities, seeking to ease crippling international sanctions as quickly as possible. New Iranian President Hasan Rouhani said ‘‘we have nothing to hide’’ as ...
Kerry meets with Iran�s foreign minister, other envoys * US official says Iran proposed implementing deal within year NEW YORK:: Iran and the United States held their highest-level substantive talks in a generation on Thursday, saying the tone was positive but sounding cautious about resolving ...
UNITED NATIONS — The U.S. and its European allies said Thursday they were pleased by a new tone and a significant shift in attitude from Iran in talks aimed at resolving the impasse over the country’s disputed nuclear activities. Iran said it was eager to dispel suspicions that it is trying to ...
Families embraced loved ones who were returned from Israeli prison/ Hundreds of freed Palestinian prisoners and detainees have been welcomed with tears and screams of joy as they were released by Israel to be reunited with their families in Gaza and the occupied West Bank. The release involved ...
affiliated security forces have been deployed across Gaza to oversee the transition following Israeli withdrawal/ At least 27 people have been killed in fierce clashes between Hamas security forces and armed members of the Dughmush family in Gaza City, in one of the most violent internal ...
The Israeli military says it has partially withdrawn troops from parts of Gaza after a ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas came into effect on Friday morning. Israeli forces said they had pulled back to an agreed position within the territory - though troops still occupy half of the ...
A ceasefire deal has taken effect in Gaza that should see Hamas release all the 48 Israeli and foreign hostages it is still holding after two years of war, 20 of whom are assumed to be alive. All but one were among the 251 people abducted during the Palestinian group's attack on southern Israel ...
Even for Donald Trump, a president who revels in his place at the centre of world events, it was a dramatic moment. The US Secretary of State Marco Rubio interrupted a televised meeting Trump was chairing in Washington DC on Wednesday. He handed over a message that the President needed to tell ...
Palestinians react to Gaza peace deal announcement/ The ceasefire and hostage deal between Israel and Hamas, announced after intense negotiations in Egypt, is a long-awaited breakthrough that brings them closer to ending the two-year-old war in Gaza. But, despite the momentum, there is no ...
The Skeik building, in a quiet road off Omar al-Mukhtar Street in western Gaza City, was a familiar sight to Gaza's lovers. The tree-lined street that ran beside it was once a favourite place for courting couples, eager to avoid Gaza's socially conservative gaze. But the road nicknamed "Lovers' ...
Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians have fled an Israeli offensive in Gaza City in recent months/ "In these two years, I lost so much," says Emaan al-Wahidi. She is living in a rented garage, struggling each day to find food and clean water, and has been displaced multiple times. Her ...
Israel's devastating military response to the 7 October attacks has destroyed most of Gaza/ After two years of war, there is a chance of a deal that will end the killing and destruction in Gaza and return the Israeli hostages, living and dead, to their families. It is an opportunity, but it is ...
Israel's foreign ministry posted a photo of Thunberg walking through Ben Gurion airport/ Israel has deported Swedish climate campaigner Greta Thunberg and 170 other pro-Palestinian activists who were detained when Israeli forces intercepted a flotilla trying to breach its naval blockade of Gaza ...