Hassan Rouhani

The newly elected Iranian president, Hassan Rouhani, said on Monday during his debut speech that he intends to maintain relations with the international community built on mutual respect. He...

Several Israeli news sites have reported that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is insisting that Iran must comply with four conditions before the international community can deal with its nuclear...

Israel's delegation to the UN General Assembly walked out during the speech of the Iranian president Hassan Rouhani, a move criticised by Yair Lapid, the head of the Israeli...

Iran's President Hassan Rouhani said on Thursday that any use of nuclear weapons is a violation of the United Nations charter and a crime against humanity. Rouhani called on...

Israel's Channel 2 TV has revealed that high-ranking Israeli figures have held a series of secret meetings over the past few weeks with representatives of Arab Gulf states to...

The Iranian government of newly-elected President Hassan Rouhani has cancelled this year's anti-Zionism conference established by his more conservative predecessor Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iranian websites have reported. The conference was...

The Iranian government has ordered anti-American slogans to be removed from public places in Tehran, in a sign of the new rapprochement between the two countries. A spokesman for...

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani made it clear on Sunday that Iran's right to enrich uranium is a "red line" that cannot be crossed and that he believes Iran acted...

Israel's major newspapers have waged a media campaign against a potential American Iranian deal saying that the United States would prefer to settle for a 'bad deal with Iran'...

Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif returned to the Iranian capital Tehran on Sunday evening accompanied by his delegation after cutting a historic deal with world powers over his...

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said on Tuesday that his government has taken "good" steps in external policy, noting that uranium enrichment is a "clear right and red line". In...

Former US envoy to the Middle East Dennis Ross wrote in an opinion article published by the Washington Post on 9 September that the price of cancelling the military...

Barack Obama has revealed that he has exchanged letters with the new Iranian president, Hassan Rouhani. The US president told ABC news that the diplomatic efforts to resolve the...

US Secretary of State John Kerry has said that a relatively quick agreement on the Iranian nuclear issue is possible to achieve. During an interview with CBS News on...

The US Secretary of State said on Thursday that it is necessary to implement the US-Russia agreement on Syrian chemical weapons. John Kerry called upon the UN Security Council...

Three years after Russia cancelled a contract that would have delivered five S-300 missile systems to Iran, Moscow is now renewing the deal, and it also plans to build...

France is to take a tough line over Iran's nuclear programme, President Francois Hollande told Israel's prime minister on Friday. He is expecting hard concessions from his Iranian counterpart,...

As was widely predicted, reformist candidate Hassan Rouhani won the first round of the Iranian presidential election, gaining more than half of the votes cast. This outcome was not...

Bankers in Iran are hoping that new President Hasan Rouhani will follow through on hints that reform is coming to the industry, which is saddled with dangerous levels of...

In the Middle East, long-established alliances are shifting dramatically. As one political leader in the region said to me recently: "The ground is shaking under our feet and we...

Israel's Prime Minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, has made no secret of his feelings about the apparent détente between Iran and the US. In a speech to the UN earlier this...

Change is happening in the Middle East, much more than is reflected in a fifteen minute phone call between Iran's President Hassan Rouhani and his US counterpart Barack Obama...

The impact of Turkish and Iranian rapprochement will cause the Gulf States to face pressure from Iran and complicate the situation in Iraq, Syria and Lebanon. These pressures and...

Since the election of Iran's new president, Hassan Rouhani last year, there has been a significant thaw in relations with the country's old adversary, the US. This diplomatic shift...