Dalai Lama “If you can, help others; if you cannot do that, at least do not harm them. ”
Barack Obama “Those who stand up for justice are always on the right side of history.”
An Israeli newspaper said on Wednesday Israel had won agreement from the United States for the continued construction of 2,500 housing units in Jewish settlements in the West Bank, despite U.S. calls for a freeze.
Israeli government spokesman Mark Regev said the United States and Israel have been trying to find common ground on the [...]
Iran will hold the US responsible for any Israeli attack against the country, Ali Larijani, the speaker of Iran’s parliament, has said.
His remarks came after Joe Biden, the US vice-president, said that Washington would not dictate the way Israel deals with Tehran’s nuclear ambitions.
“We will consider the Americans responsible in any adventure launched by the Zionist [...]
The president of Egypt has said that the Middle East peace process cannot handle another failure, urging Israel to make “difficult decisions”.
Hosni Mubarak made the comments during a joint press conference with Shimon Peres, the visiting president of Israel, who arrived in Cairo earlier on Tuesday.
“There is an increased need now for a political will from the Israeli [...]
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei warned Western countries on Monday against interfering in Iranian affairs after its disputed presidential election, state television reported.
Iranian authorities accuse the West, particularly the United States and Britain, of inciting unrest in the Islamic Republic following the June 12 vote in which hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was re-elected.
“We [...]
A senior Iranian official slammed Monday statements by U.S. Vice President Joe Biden that Israel has a sovereign right to decide what is in its best interest in dealing with Iran’s nuclear ambitions and said Tehran would respond “in a very full-scale and very decisive way” if attacked.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has signaled [...]
The head of Iran’s judiciary has called for a crackdown on television channels and websites deemed to have been criticial of the government.
“The daily growth of anti-regime satellite channels and … websites needs serious measures to confront this phenomenon,” state television quoted Ayatollah Mahmoud Hashemi-Shahroudi as saying on Sunday.
“Those who co-operate with such websites and [...]
A group of clerics in Iran has called Iran’s presidential vote invalid, contradicting official results.
The pro-reform group’s statement pits it against the top legislative body, which last week formally endorsed the re-election of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
On Saturday, former President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani said that post-election events had caused bitterness.
Britain said one of two UK embassy employees [...]
A British embassy employee is to stand trial in Tehran for “acting against national security” — a dramatic escalation in Iran’s campaign to blame Britain for protests against disputed election results.
The man, a 44-year-old Iranian who is the British embassy’s chief political analyst, was arrested on Saturday and has been formally charged at Tehran’s Evin [...]
Iranians worried about their loved ones detained in the protests that followed the presidential election got the ear of a former president, who wants the detainees released, an Iranian reformist party newspaper reported on Thursday.
Former reformist President Mohammad Khatami met with families of some of the people detained and said that if the courts uphold [...]
Saddam Hussein, the former Iraqi president, allowed the world to believe his country had weapons of mass destruction in an attempt to deter an Iranian invasion, an FBI file has revealed.
In 20 formal interviews and five “casual conversations” with George Piro, an FBI agent, Saddam said he considered Iran to be a bigger threat to [...]
Troops willing to die to stop Iran unrest, general says
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