Iran Nuclear

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 State Department Deputy Spokesperson Mary Harf has said that the US would be more open to Iran's participation in the Geneva II conference if Tehran supported the Geneva...

A New York Times editorial has criticised Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's speech before the UN General Assembly and the threats of war he made against Iran. The newspaper...

US Secretary of State John Kerry said on Friday that he hopes to complete an accord to freeze Iran's nuclear program, but he affirmed that a "high-stakes diplomatic push"...

On Saturday US defence secretary Chuck Hagel told the Gulf states that the US is highly committed to the security of the Middle East and that the deal with...

A US newspaper has said that the American president Barack Obama has called for the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to stop candidly rebuking the temporary deal over Iran's...

Iran will receive the first tranche of its funds which have been frozen due to US-led sanctions by the beginning of February. The State Department said that $550 million...

British Foreign Secretary William Hague said that London and Tehran are exchanging chargé d'affaires in a move to rebuild their diplomatic ties. Hague explained on Tuesday that, "the two...

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,...

Iran and the world powers have reached a deal in Geneva on Tehran's nuclear program; Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif confirmed. A senior US official said according to...

The alliance between the apartheid state of Israel and the absolutist monarchy of the Saudi royal dictatorship is no longer merely tacit. After recent diplomatic moves to cool tensions...

I have warned over the years that US-Iran rapprochement will end all the current political considerations based on conflict between Washington and Tehran, and I called for Arab-Iranian talks...

It has become a tradition amongst American presidents to begin their period of office by visiting Israel, especially over the past three decades during which time the Israel Lobby...

President Barack Obama's visit to the Middle East has coincided with the 10th anniversary of the killing of American peace activist Rachel Corrie. She was murdered by an American-made...

This year's Herzliya Conference in Israel was held amid the state's fears of the rapid political changes in the region. This prompted the organisers to invite many Israeli officials...

Israel's Chief of General Staff Benny Gantz and former Head of Military Intelligence General Amos Yadlin have been discussing the situation in Syria and Lebanon, expressing concerns about Islamist...

The election landscape in Iran is becoming increasingly clear. According to state-run Press TV, a whopping 686 candidates registered to run in the presidential poll. However, only eight men...

The Syrian crisis encompasses a number of thorny and complicated issues, the details of which are intertwined and the courses of which branch out. This produces a strange state...

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...

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...

If we want to determine whether the deal made between the P5+1 world powers and Iran concerning Tehran's nuclear ambitions is good or bad, we must examine the initial...

Saeed Al-Wahabi is a young Saudi writer. His pen is hard-hitting and quick. Last Sunday evening he summed up the public Saudi mood after Saudis had had enough analysis...