All Posts Tagged With: "Iran"

Hagel Starts Mideast Tour in Israel

Chuck Hagel, the U.S. Secretary of Defense, started a weeklong five-country tour in the Middle East when he arrived in Israel Sunday morning. The trip for Hagel will focus on the civil war in Syria, the nuclear program in Iran and sales of weapons to allies UAE, Saudi Arabia and Israel. Hagel will use this [...]

Tehran Says U.S. Not Sincere about Nuclear Talks

Iran’s Supreme Leader the Ayatollah Khamenei announced at the end of last week that a recent overture by the U.S. for bilateral negotiations was not in good faith and insisted the country would not negotiate a deal while it was being placed under pressure. The Ayatollah said that the U.S. was pointing a gun at [...]

Mark Rubio Speaks About Issues Regarding Syria

Sen. Mark Rubio recently said that the United States should be doing more to create a safe haven for the Syrian opposition but did not go as far as to urge Washington to arm rebels which some believe is a suggestion that they were not yet organized. The vice presidential candidate for the Republican Party [...]

U.S. and Major Powers to Approve the Draft Against Iran’s Nuclear Policy

In recent United Nations conference, Hillary Clinton said that the U.S. and major powers of the world have agreed on approving the draft against Iran’s nuclear policy. The approval was a result of Iran’s acceptance of an enriched uranium stock pile, from a Brazilian and Turkish mediated deal. Iran’s recent set of decisions towards the [...]

France: No Deals with Iran

A 24 year old French native, Clotilde Reiss, flew home to Paris after the Iranian courts swapped her 5 year jail term in exchange for a payment of $285,000 fine – finally they gave her back, her passport and necessary documents and allowed her to leave the country. Reiss was extremely delighted to see her [...]

U.N. to Open up New Sanctions against Iran

The U.N. is going to open up with a new round of sanctions against Iran, by the end of June. But for now, a draft proposal hasn’t been submitted to the Security Council. On the other hand, Brazil has been working with Iran towards ceasing those nuclear weapons program, in hopes of slowing down the [...]

Iran to Contravene the Nuclear Treaty?

Are Iranians going to give in to the ongoing Non Proliferation Treaty? – Or, is something opposite going to occur? The answer isn’t clear to anyone because it depends mostly on whom you ask and how you are able to define violation in accordance to your own perspectives. Iran is okay with the U.S. and [...]

Non Proliferation Treaty – What Countries Have Nuclear Weapons

The recent NPT (Non Proliferation Treaty) had five signatories, namely; US, Russia, China, Britain and France. Noticeably, among all five of them, the U.S. and Russia are the main sources of nuclear warheads because of the vast majority of weapons they have. On the other side of the picture, we have three countries – Pakistan, [...]

President Obama’s Concern About Nuclear Security

The US President Obama is hosting leaders from 46 countries on a 2 day nuclear security summit. The agenda is as usual, is based on war against terror and the whole idea of the summit revolves around the age old recipe of; “How to safeguard weapons of mass destruction and keep them out of the [...]

North Korea to Carry on Expanding Atomic Arsenal

Naming President Obama’s nuclear pose as “hostile”, North Korea decided to carry on enlarging its atomic arsenal as a result of an annual session centered on rescuing the economy. Earlier this week, President Obama declared to resist using nuclear weapons against countries that follow non-proliferation standards – excluding North Korea and Iran from the new [...]