Iran

September 19, 2007 -- Washington, DC – In response to reports that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has requested to visit Ground Zero while in New York for the United Nations General Assembly meetings, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton issued the following statement:

"It is unacceptable for Iranian President Ahmadinejad, who refuses to renounce and end his own country’s support of terrorism, to visit the site of the deadliest terrorist attack on American soil in our nation’s history."

Source: Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton

September 19, 2007 -- TALLAHASSEE, FL – Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum today issued the following statement on the State Board of Administration’s implementation of the Protecting Florida’s Investments Act:    » read more »

Sep 17, 2007 -- Boston, MA – Today, Governor Mitt Romney released a letter sent to the United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urging "the United Nations to revoke any invitation to President Ahmadinejad to address the General Assembly."

In his letter, Governor Romney wrote:    » read more »

16 September 2007 -- France's foreign minister says world powers should brace for a possible war with Iran over Tehran's nuclear ambitions.

In an interview broadcast Sunday on French radio and television, Bernard Kouchner said negotiations to resolve the nuclear standoff with Tehran are the top priority.

But, Kouchner said, in his own words, "We must prepare for the worst, and the worst is war."

He stressed that he does not believe war is imminent.    » read more »

September 03, 2007 -- Chicago, IL -- U.S. Senator Barack Obama released the following statement today on the release of Haleh Esfandiari from Iran.    » read more »

Mawlana Jalal-ud-Din Balkhi-Rumi was a poet, philosopher and spiritual leader

31 Aug 2007 -- An international seminar, exhibition and demonstration of Sufi dancing are on the day-long programme of events Thursday, 6 September, celebrating the 800th anniversary of the birth of poet, philosopher and spiritual leader Jalal-ud-Din Balkhi-Rumi. The Director-General of UNESCO, Koïchiro Matsuura will inaugurate the celebrations (9 a.m., Room II), which have been organized in collaboration with Afghanistan, the Islamic Republic of Iran and Turkey.    » read more »

29 August 2007 -- The Iranian embassy in Baghdad says U.S. troops have freed seven Iranians hours after detaining them at a hotel in the Iraqi capital

An embassy official said the men were handed over to Iraqi authorities early Wednesday morning.

American troops raided Baghdad's Sheraton hotel late Tuesday and seized the Iranians. Video footage also showed soldiers leaving the hotel with what appeared to be luggage and a laptop computer bag.

The Iranian embassy said those detained included an embassy staffer and six members of a delegation from Iran's Electricity Ministry.    » read more »

27 August 2007 (By VOA News) -- A German orchestra is to perform this week in Iran in a rare visit by a European ensemble to the country.

The Osnabrueck Symphony Orchestra will play works by Beethoven, Brahms, and Elgar in Tehran Wednesday and Thursday.

The German orchestra is performing in Iran as part of an exchange that saw the Tehran Symphony Orchestra perform last year in Osnabrueck.

As required in Iran, the female German musicians will wear headscarves.    » read more »

08/22/2007 -- "The war in Iraq, which President Bush misled us into, has been a disaster. Not only has it caused us, and the Iraqi people, so much suffering and so much money – it has also made us less safe from the very serious problem of international terrorism. Now, there are increased rumblings that Bush and Cheney are thinking of waging an attack on Iran.    » read more »

August 22, 2007 -- Washington, DC – “I welcome the news that Dr. Haleh Esfandiari, director of the Middle East program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, has been released from prison in Iran, following four months of unjust detention. I commend Dr. Esfandiari for her courage during this trying time and my thoughts remain with her and her family. Yet while this development is promising, the Iranian government should heed the calls heard around the world to immediately allow Dr. Esfandiari to return to the United States.    » read more »

August 22, 2007 -- WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) today released the following statement on the release of Haleh Esfandiari from an Iranian Prison. Esfandiari has been unjustly detained in Iran since May 2007. In July, Obama called on Mostafa Rahmani, the Director of the Iranian Interest Section in Washington, for her immediate release.    » read more »

August 21, 2007 -- Washington, DC – The Iranian government today announced that it had released Iranian-American scholar Dr. Haleh Esfandiari from prison. Dr. Esfandiari, who had been imprisoned since May, is one of four Iranian-Americans that have been detained in Iran in recent months.

The following is a brief statement from U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.):

“I am delighted that the Government of Iran has released Dr. Esfandiari from prison. I thank the Iranian Government for today’s action.    » read more »

21 August 2007 -- Iran and the U.N. International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) say they have agreed on a timetable for Tehran to clear up outstanding questions about its controversial nuclear program.

IAEA Deputy Director Olli Heinonen and Iranian nuclear negotiator Javad Vaeedi announced the agreement Tuesday after two days of talks in Tehran.

Vaeedi said the talks produced great results.

Neither side gave details on the timetable agreed to in the talks, which came ahead of an IAEA report on Iran that is due for release next month.    » read more »

20 August 2007 -- Despite a recent announcement by Iran's state-run news agency, IRNA, saying Iranian and Iraqi security officials signed a border security pact, there are ongoing reports Iran is shelling the border areas in the Kurdish region of Iraq.

The mountain village, Haji Umran, is a transit point for trade between the Kurdish regions of Iraq and Iran.    » read more »

Turning Spy Satellites On U.S. Citizens

August 16, 2007 -- DOVER, NH – Ohio Congressman and Democratic Presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich delivered a blistering attack on the Bush Administration today, charging that the White House is setting the stage for a war in Iran and, at the same time, using the “same mantra of terrorism to justify using military spy satellites and other high-tech military assets to put every citizen in our country under surveillance.”    » read more »