Iran.

Dick Cheney, the US vice-president, was one of the most enthusiastic advocates for an attack on Iraq and is also a leading hawk on Iran.

But he remained vague about thetimingofa key issue, and he said the quantity of fuel involved should be up to Iran.

The USA had not established diplomatic relations with Iran and the two countries were in tense situations.

The reason seems to be that Iran was over-confident, offering too little and asking for too much.

And if even Iran's allies can stand behind the protesters, the United States should be able to as well.

Furthermore, Shia-led government that the American props up in Baghdad thinks of Iran as its best foreign friend. it's irony of ironies.

Fortunately, Iran would not fight alone: it had the support of Muslims around the world.

These officials say the IAEA has already demanded access to the facility from Iran, and will investigate the matter vigorously .

An independent and powerful country like Iran would not allow any other country to interfere in its internal affairs.

President Obama says Iran is only about a year away from being able to build a nuclear weapon.

To ask China to slam the door on Iran's energy exports is like asking America to do without Saudi oil, says Mr Berman.

The American hostages in Iran had been held by the Ayatollah Khomeini for almost a year.

These events and the overly simplistic images of Iran in the media made me even more curious about what was taking place in that nation.

As you know blogs are borderless media. Bloggers can write from any place in Iran and have an audience anywhere in the world.

The Pentagon said all its planes were accounted for and it had received no reports of any plane landing in Iran.

But she said the necessary contacts with Iran on the issue never began because of the press of other business.

The risk would rise further over the next year and a half if Iran continued to push ahead with its military program.

Mr. Gates said that the United States did not intend to engage in hot pursuit of the operatives into Iran.

The White House said the talks touched on a wide range of topics, including North Korea, and Iran, as well as economic and security issues.

In February 2007, Iran said it had launched a rocket capable of reaching space - before it made a parachute-assisted descent to Earth.

In another development, Britain has ordered two Iranian diplomats to leave the country following Iran's expulsion of two British envoys.

Ask the young in Iran, who seem capable of holding on to the idea that the US is at once threatening and a model to be emulated.

S. hopes in that way either to drive Iran to its knees or to provoke an attack by Iran that would justify massive retaliation.

Gates said the Obama administration wants to see a positive response from Iran soon.

And unless results are forthcoming, the long-running drama over Iran's nuclear ambitions could rapidly escalate into a global crisis.

Erdogan also defends Iran's right to a nuclear programme, panicking western diplomats who are trying to prevent a nuclear-armed Iran.

He made no mention of disputed presidential elections in Iran in which hard-line president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was declared the winner.

In his strongest response to Iran's post-election unrest, Mr. Obama said the Iranian government must understand that the world is watching.

The report says Iran might have enough nuclear material to build a bomb in the next three to eight years, at the earliest.

Nevertheless, there has been a real change of policy since the days when Mr Bush said Iran was part of the "axis of evil" .

Iran's nuclear program is at the point where the two countries' strategic needs converge.

Now, the U. S. may have found a way to exploit Iran's economic Achilles heel by hitting the regime where it hurts - the wallet.

In that way, Twitter is a very poor tool for judging popular sentiment in Iran and trying to assess who won the presidential election.

"The last thing Iran wants to see is a permanent American presence in its backyard, " says Aslan.

She said the proposal is in line with the EU's twin-track approach of using both dialogue and sanctions to target Iran's atomic program.

If you decide it's better to let Iran get its bomb than to risk bombing it, we don't have to tell anybody for a bit.

He also offered an insight into his own modus operandi now that he, too, has no hope of having his films shown in Iran.

She said Iran's leaders must understand that the United States will never let them develop nuclear weapons.

But Iran's chief negotiator, Saeed Jalili, said he would not discuss suspending uranium enrichment.

But let me tell you, you know, this business about bombing Iran and all that, let me tell you my record.

It helps Iran that, just as the world gears up to enforce the anti-nuclear rules, the rules may be changing.

No definite conclusion is possible because it is unclear how much of Iran's trade with Europe is channelled via the UAE.

On the subject of Iran, he made it plain, though, that his patience was limited by the end of this year.

With his Israeli guest at his side, Mr Obama appeared to set a rough deadline for his proposed dialogue with Iran.

Mr Obama said last week if Russia increased co-operation with the US on Iran as a "byproduct" of his decision, it would be a "bonus" .

Now George Bush's Democratic critics want him to talk to both Iran and Syria to help find a way out of Iraq.

It might be possible to make a convincing case for an air strike on Iran if you could somehow erase the memory of the disaster of Iraq.

Iran's ruling mullahs were always ruthless. But they disguised it a bit with faux elections.

So if the British wanted a regime change in say Iran it was a matter of a few gun boats and a couple of battalions of troops.

Iran joins the world's wheat export market and a government spokesperson states that this achievement was a grace from the Almighty.

Attack on Iran would be Obama stabbing Americans in the back economically, and shooting himself in the leg politically.

They said the move violates international agreements and called on satellite operators to pressure Iran to stop.

Israel tends to exaggerate for American consumption the extent to which Iran is the puppet master of Hamas and Hizbullah.

Salehi did not name the aircraft carrier or give details of the action Iran might take if it returned.

As if to illustrate his point about this dangerous new world, two days later it was revealed that Iran has a second, secret, nuclear site.

Even if European companies felt able to press ahead with investment in Iran, the Nioc had learned its lesson, he said.

Mottaki said if Iranian authorities are able to confirm her identity she would be free to leave Iran.

That was a driving factor behind the decision to dial back operations in Iran, a person familiar with the matter said.

He called for the international community to stop Iran's race for nuclear weapons, which he said "endangers the peace of the entire world. "

Iran's nuclear program was one of many issues discussed during talks between U. S. President George Bush and EU leaders.

As rhetoric and tension escalates between Iran, the US and Israel, does this period compare to that of the Cuban Missile Crisis?

Such an amputation sentence is often handed down to habitual thieves in Iran who have prior convictions for theft and robbery.

And let me be unequivocal: Iran has the same absolute right to a peaceful nuclear programme, civil nuclear programme, as any other country.

Russia also built Iran's first nuclear power plant and is actively trying to build other nuclear power facilities abroad.

Iran has also pledged to ship some low-enriched uranium out of the country to prove it is not trying to make nuclear weapons.

We have had President Obama going on television and saying he is ready to talk to Iran as long as Iran comes with an unclenched fist.

Speaking at the weekly Cabinet meeting, Mr. Olmert said he would urge Russia not to sell sophisticated weapons to Iran and Syria.

Iran says it has no intention of discussing its nuclear programme; the latest revelations ensure it will have no choice but to do so.

To put it in perspective, it took over a year of protests to oust the Shah of Iran in 1979.

Iran has been a state since the creation of the Persian empire in the sixth century BC.

Iran denied it was clandestine and said it had informed the IAEA about the plant earlier this week.

Mr. Obama said another part of his strategy is for the U. S. to work with all the nations of the Middle East, including Iran and Syria.

Washington and its allies are seeking new sanctions against Iran unless it cooperates in showing it isn't trying to develop nuclear weapons.

For those trying to talk Iran out of potentially weapons-usable work, this seems to get them nowhere.

There was no immediate comment from Chinese top refiner Sinopec on the reported signing of a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Iran.

Bentu says his boss told him not to worry, that the company's U. S. lawyers made sure the deals with Iran were legal.

Iran has not acted in ways that are conducive to peace in the region or to the prosperity of its own people, he said.

Pretending to keep a military threat on the table while trying to talk or bribe Iran out of going nuclear is not a bad policy.

The series of meetings come a week before the full U. N. Security Council is to hear an I. A. E. A. report on Iran.

The IAEA report also says there has been a breakdown of communication between the agency and Iran over alleged research on an atomic weapon.

This was one of the several giant oilfields discovered by BP in Iran.

At a press conference in Brussels Tuesday, EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana said the door for dialogue with Iran remained open.

As a girl growing up in Iran and attending boarding school in England, I wanted to be a doctor.

In both Cuba and Iran, moreover, the US and its does have real interests in common, so a warming of relations is at least possible.

And I've made it clear that this system is directed at preventing a potential attack from Iran. It has nothing to do with Russia.

He said it is up to Iran to decide whether the time for dialogue has come to an end.

The IAEA confirmed that it had been told by Iran about a new plant and it had requested access to it as soon as possible.

He told me that before he went, he had expected the residents would have wanted to talk about Iraq and Iran.

He said the United States trying to distract public attention from Iran to respond the best way is to disregard the allegation.

The multinational talks took place in Switzerland. Iran ruled out freezing uranium enrichment, but agreed to resume talks in two weeks.

The IAEA report also says there has been a breakdown of communication between the agency and Iran over alleged research on an atomic weapon.

What do you think the impact is going to be of those documents on the debate about Iran in the coming weeks and months?

America is trying to deal with the twin problems of Iran and North Korea through multilateral institutions.

This was one of the several giant oilfields discovered by BP in Iran.

At a press conference in Brussels Tuesday, EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana said the door for dialogue with Iran remained open.

As a girl growing up in Iran and attending boarding school in England, I wanted to be a doctor.

In both Cuba and Iran, moreover, the US and its does have real interests in common, so a warming of relations is at least possible.

And I've made it clear that this system is directed at preventing a potential attack from Iran. It has nothing to do with Russia.

He said it is up to Iran to decide whether the time for dialogue has come to an end.

The IAEA confirmed that it had been told by Iran about a new plant and it had requested access to it as soon as possible.

As a girl growing up in Iran and attending boarding school in England, I wanted to be a doctor.

In both Cuba and Iran, moreover, the US and its does have real interests in common, so a warming of relations is at least possible.

And I've made it clear that this system is directed at preventing a potential attack from Iran. It has nothing to do with Russia.

He said it is up to Iran to decide whether the time for dialogue has come to an end.

The IAEA confirmed that it had been told by Iran about a new plant and it had requested access to it as soon as possible.

He told me that before he went, he had expected the residents would have wanted to talk about Iraq and Iran.

He said the United States trying to distract public attention from Iran to respond the best way is to disregard the allegation.

The multinational talks took place in Switzerland. Iran ruled out freezing uranium enrichment, but agreed to resume talks in two weeks.

And without credibility, Iran -- like any country -- would not be able to hold another country hostage.

"It is breathtaking that Iran could be working on this sort of material, " said a European government adviser on nuclear issues.

The multinational talks took place in Switzerland. Iran ruled out freezing uranium enrichment, but agreed to resume talks in two weeks.

And without credibility, Iran -- like any country -- would not be able to hold another country hostage.

"It is breathtaking that Iran could be working on this sort of material, " said a European government adviser on nuclear issues.

"The relevant question is not when Iran will get the bomb, " he said. "It is at what stage can we stop Iran from getting the bomb. "

The new outspokenness appeared to reflect a belief that reaching out to moderate forces in Iran would be in Israel's long-term interest.

The vice president said the United States must accept Iran's official results "for the time being" .

He said the Arabs also had to consider that a future U. S. president might seek rapprochement with Iran.

FILM-makers in Iran have always had to get by with just a few breaths of artistic air yet made memorable movies in the process.

Q: The US said it was ready to join the negotiation between the six countries and Iran.

He said the two sides have yet to resolve some issues, but he said he hopes to renew contact with Iran in a few days.

Q: The US said it was ready to join the negotiation between the six countries and Iran.

He said the two sides have yet to resolve some issues, but he said he hopes to renew contact with Iran in a few days.

Netanyahu, Obama said the US diplomatic route to curb Iran's nuclear program would be reassessed by year's end.

"We continue to hold out hope that Iran will abide by the will of the international community, but hope is not a plan, " he said.

An IAEA spokesman said it had been told by Iran that "no nuclear material has been introduced into the facility" .

The UN nuclear watchdog says in a report that Iran has doubled the number of uranium enrichment centrifuges it has in an underground bunker.

Republicans are more than twice as likely as Democrats to see Iran as the top U. S. enemy, while Democrats are likelier to name Iraq.

Mr Moussavi, more-over, while he might have been more straightforward on Iran's nuclear ambitions, would not have been more pliant.

He says Iran has no intention of acquiring an atomic bomb; it is only making low-enriched uranium to fuel nuclear-power stations.

Just as the Americans pull out of Iraq, the risk of a conflict between the US and a newly-strengthened Iran is rising.

Just as the Americans pull out of Iraq, the risk of a conflict between the US and a newly-strengthened Iran is rising.

The enemy must answer this question if it attacks Iran, how long a battle and lose much of its warships and vessels prepared?

Our choice in 1972 was to help Iran arm itself or to permit a perilous vacuum.

It was in the, this month of the American president reached out to Iran and a wider Islamic world in a major speech in Cairo.

Iran said it had resumed uranium enrichment, prompting Russia and France to call on Tehran to halt its work.

Obama has said that the United States is prepared to extend a hand of peace to Iran if it "unclenched its fist" .

"Incidentally, the commentary ignores Iran altogether, as if it is not a factor of consequence on the Afghan chessboard" .

The New York-based group had been pressuring Huawei to leave Iran and had been communicating privately with the company for several weeks.

This position is irreconcilable with that of the US and its allies, which have enacted a series of sanctions against Iran.

That's an extreme step, but the nightmare would be if Iran simply decided to save time and buy a nuclear weapon or two from North Korea.

Russian concessions so far have been halfhearted and Russian policies, whether on Iran or Libya, do not coincide with those of America.

In the last months of his presidency, Mr Chirac mused publicly that it might not be so dangerous after all if Iran acquired a nuclear bomb.

Secretary of State Hilary Clinton warns Iran is only trying to distract attention away from its own behavior.

He said he believes it is incomplete and that Iran has restarted its nuclear weapons program.

He said: "We have to be realistic, and stopping Iran at this point is going to be a very difficult challenge. "

Western nations accuse Iran of trying to develop nuclear weapons under cover of a civilian energy program - a charge Tehran denies.

After 20 years of the Iran-Iraq war, border cities did not get constructed but houses in Lebanon were constructed by our money.

The EU and US have been struggling over which would have the initiative in dealing with Iran, notably over the last two years.

This would be a good time to get him to help us turn the screw a bit tighter on Iran, for instance.

The White House says the US delegation at nuclear conference at United Nations walked out of a speech given by Iran's president.

Syed Zainal said the vehicle was an Iranian initiative. "What they (Iran) want to do is to call that an Islamic car, " he said.

SANCTIONS imposed by the United States have long made it a bother to use credit cards in Iran.

This report was published, Iran insisted that there was no secret nuclear weapons program, accusing the report was politically motivated.

Iran was one of many international issues that dominated Mr. Bush's talks with French President Nicholas Sarkozy.

The parade was one of several around the country marking the 30th anniversary of the start of the Iran-Iraq war.

There has been a lot of trouble in Iran since you returned from there - you're well out of it.

She personifies a certain Iran I've tried to evoke since the beginning of this year.

Iran must be made to understand that owning nuclear weapons is a curse for it rather than a blessing.

"It has consequences for us but it would be devastating for Iran, " he said.

He said this change in the U. S. program is the result of a new assessment of Iran's missile development program.

It said the company was making the move due to the 'increasingly complex situation in Iran. '

Iran is under intense international pressure to halt a nuclear program that it insists is peaceful, denying it is trying to make a bomb.

It was interesting to see that Iran, a country we feel we need to protect ourselves from, had the same security headaches we do.

He goes on to claim that the purpose of his alleged abduction was to discredit Iran and its nuclear program.

And she stressed that she did not mean to imply that a nuclear armed Iran is inevitable.

Witnesses in Iran say police there have been firing tear gas and water* trying to get protesters off the street.

From this perspective, securing Chinese cooperation with U. S. efforts to pressure Iran is hardly the matter of a few good meetings.

She said the Obama administration is pursuing a diplomatic track on the issue with Iran but within a specific time-frame.

The head of Iran's atomic energy agency says the country is ready to cooperate with other countries for its nuclear energy development.

Even Iran, his strongest local backer, betrays doubts over whether to stick with him for ever.

Even so, Iran is nothing like the totalitarian, mass-murdering regimes of the Soviet Union or Nazi Germany.

A Sunni Muslim group, Jundollah (God's soldiers), claimed responsibility for that blast and Iran said the group operated from Pakistan.

"Iran has decided that enrichment should not be halted for a second, " he said.

By ending the first ever significant battle between the sheers , Iran appears to be ready to intervene more aggressively.

And with the U. S. pinned down in Iraq and Afghanistan there's little Washington can do to scare Iran into changing its ambitions.

Born in an Afghan refugee camp in Iran 23 years ago, she began weaving carpets with her mother, brothers and sisters when she was 5.

Newt Gingrich, former speaker of the House of Representatives, said he would support military action against Iran only as a last choice.

Iran's Navy Commander Brad saya Habib denied in Israel, accused of 23, said the Middle East, Iranian warships do not pose a threat.

He said the 2006 Iraq Study Group's recommendation for more engagement with Iran has not been implemented.

Ever since the earthquake of December 2003, Bam in Southern Iran is nothing but rubble and ruin.

He said he was concerned that the added sanctions will harm people in Iran.

But the fear is that, well-meaning as the leaders of Turkey and Brazil may be, Iran is abusing their efforts to get out of a fix.

But America is still uncertain which is worse: to let Iran go nuclear , or to try to stop it by force.

General Ham says the support involves "weapons and material, " but he did not provide details of what Iran sends or how much.

For months, it had been criticized as lacking strong leadership and for being unable to seriously challenge Iran's entrenched regime.

He said there is always hope for talks, but said it is up to Iran to accept the conditions to start real negotiations.

Earlier, statements in the Iranian media suggested that Iran is not ready to send its enriched uranium abroad.

Could Ahmadinejad build his conservative nationalist supporters into a movement capable of challenging Iran's dominant theocracy?

Mrs. Clinton said she was trying to make even starker the choice Iran faced if it did not agree to abandon its program.

The head of the Israeli military has said he does not think Iran will develop nuclear weapons.

If we move forward with such a meeting, it is expected that Iran would be invited as a neighbour of Afghanistan, she said.

"Understand that he is not the decision maker when it comes to foreign policy and defense policy in Iran, " he said.

He said Iran should be referred to the Security Council for action.

It was not immediately clear how much uranium Iran would need to send abroad.

In London, protesters held posters with Ashtiani's likeness while a speaker criticized Iran's treatment of her.

At the moment, Iran, with its radical ideology and burgeoning nuclear program, is one of Washington's biggest headaches.

U. S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called it a "transparent ploy" by Iran to avoid United Nations Security Council sanctions.

Obama also said the United States and its allies were working on steps to take against Iran after its apparent rejection of a nuclear deal.

His Mahdi Army used to flaunt nationalist credentials in an effort not to be viewed as being in Iran's pocket.

Eventually, he said, the national network could replace the global Internet in Iran, as well as in other Muslim countries.

My boyfriend asked if I was following what was going on in Iran, and I said no.

Mr Bailey said the gold buying "was an attempt by Iran to protect its reserves from risk of seizure" .

Ali Akbar Salehi, the head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organisation, told Reuters yesterday that Iran did not want to leave the pact.

This tactic has often been used in Iran to frighten prominent people, without stoking more public anger by detaining them directly.

But she said Iran had so far squandered the opportunity.

"I can tell you there's absolutely no gap between the secretary's position on Iran and the president's position on Iran, " he said.

John McCain said the only thing worse than a war with Iran would be an Iran with a bomb.

Mr. Obama has pledged to open a dialogue with Iran. And most observers were watching to see what he would do after the election.

The U. S. president will seek Arab support to help contain Iran when his tour takes him to Gulf countries and Egypt.

The committee said the company had moved millions of dollars from Iran to North Korea on behalf of two institutions previously blacklisted.

Holding back on the fuel for Bushehr was one bit of Russian leverage in the nuclear dispute with Iran that is now being lost.

Even before the turmoil, Iran signalled it had tired of western foot-dragging and was likely to favour Chinese oil companies.

Witnesses in Iran say police there have been firing tear gas and water canons , trying to get protesters off the streets.

In 2002 Mr Bush lumped Iraq, North Korea and Iran together in an "axis of evil" and said he would stop them acquiring nuclear weapons.

The United States and a number of European nations, believe Iran might be building a nuclear weapon.

Nor did the men of principle think it safe to leave the choice of his successor to Iran's voters.

But just as has been true in Lebanon, what can be true in Iran as well is that you're seeing people looking at new possibilities.

The Thai national was trying to board a flight to Iran but had difficulty with a large bag at check-in.

As much as the Administration is tempted, it is not about to test Iran's promise to "explode" the Middle East if it is attacked.

One Sudanese source said he had cultivated ties with Syria and Iran, as well as with Hamas in Palestine and Hizbollah in Lebanon.

Like the rest of the world, President Obama must have been surprised by the magnitude of the protests in Iran.

The extent to which this conventional wisdom had taken hold came out clearly in both Iran and Afghanistan.

Iran's assertion that it had shot down the drone wasn't the first such claim it has made.

The U. S. has been a close ally of Israel, both countries have concerns about Iran's controversial nuclear program.

IAEA chief Dr. Mohammed ElBaradei also noted that Iran was three to eight years away from having the capability to produce a nuclear weapon.

It would not surprise to hear Mr Obama offer his most ringing condemnation of Iran yet.

However much they dislike Iran's mullahs, Gulf Arabs dislike more the idea of getting caught up in a war between Iran and America.

In 2003, under President Mohammad Khatami, Iran admitted that it had been cladestinely pursuing an atomic program and agreed to suspend it.

Iran has been a state since the creation of the Persian Empire in the 6th century BC.

"My assessment is that as much as Iran needs Turkmenistan in its north, Turkmenistan needs a good customer as well, " he said.

He said his father's forces would align with radical Islamists against the rebels: "Libya will look like Saudi Arabia, like Iran. So what? "

Though military action is an option, the consequences of the United States or Israel attacking Iran would be catastrophic.

Obama came into office thinking he could engage with Iran in a way that would defuse tensions.

She said that she planned to return to Iran soon despite the danger of being arrested at the airport.

Not so long ago, Britain was held in such low esteem in Iran that it was simply dismissed as the "little Satan" .

Of course we've got to do preparations, starting with low-level diplomatic talks, and it may not work, because Iran is a rogue regime.

Some analysts believe that the U. S. tend to distance Iran, Pakistan and China are close to the troops in Afghanistan to extend the time.

To its credit, China has tried in a minimal way to be a global stakeholder in the United Nations effort to end Iran's nuclear threat.

But Turkey, which may host a crucial radar station, insisted that it would not back the plan if there was any explicit mention of Iran.

Russia strongly criticized the EU and the U. S. side to strengthen sanctions against Iran, saying such a move "unacceptable. "

They had not noticed that Iran's poor, more concerned with economic inequality than reform, were responding to a fiery young fundamentalist.

But such a visit would mark the latest twist in the IAEA's long dealings with Iran over its suspected nuclear weapons program. The U.

In Syria and Iran, among other places, social media users are lulled into a dangerously false sense of security.

Attempts to send peacekeepers to Sudan, or to impose sanctions on Iran, may be frustrated by Chinese opposition.

Iran, which once held so much sway, is not talked of as a model: theocracy does not appeal to the youngsters on the Arab street.

Chinese oil traders, including the secretive ZhenHua Oil, began supplying fuel to Iran in 2009 and now provide up to a third of its imports.

His audience laughed out loud when he said that, in Iran, "we do not have homosexuals like in your country" .

Iranian state TV is reporting at least 40 people have been killed by a major earthquake near the Iran-Pakistan border.

Pakistan exists in a region whose history has overlapped that of India, Afghanistan and Persia (Iran).

Hagel later said he backs the U. S. policy of preventing Iran from building a nuclear weapon.