AFP: Senior diplomats from six world powers urged Iran on Wednesday to accept their offer of direct talks on its nuclear programme, a senior German diplomat said after a meeting near Frankfurt. World powers urge Iran to enter nuclear talks
AFP: Senior diplomats from six world powers urged Iran on Wednesday to accept their offer of direct talks on its nuclear programme, a senior German diplomat said after a meeting near Frankfurt. Iran replacing envoys who backed “rioters”: report
Reuters: Iran is replacing 40 of its ambassadors, including some who voiced support for "rioters" during the unrest that erupted after June's disputed presidential election, a semi-official news agency reported. Iran MPs to debate oil and interior ministries
AFP: President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's nominees for the key oil and interior portfolios were Wednesday to outline their four-year plans to Iranian MPs, as parliament prepared to vote on the new cabinet. U.S. heard nothing conclusive from Iran on talks
Reuters: The United States has heard nothing conclusive from Iran about Tehran's reported new offer for negotiations on its nuclear program, the White House said on Tuesday. ANALYSIS – Iran unlikely to back down over IAEA’s atom bomb probe
Reuters: The U.N. nuclear watchdog has raised the stakes in a Western standoff with Iran by lending credence to allegations it studied ways to make atom bombs, but Tehran looks unlikely to give ground. Ahmadinejad plans U.N. visit
Washington Post: With weeks to go until a U.S. deadline for opening talks, a spokesman for Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Monday that he plans to travel to New York to give a speech during the annual meeting of the United Nations General Assembly on Sept. 23. Iran to fight enemy’s “soft war,” parliament told
Reuters: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's proposed new intelligence minister pledged on Monday to "confront the enemies' soft war," but one conservative member of parliament said he lacked experience for the post. Iran brags of European energy deals
UPI: Iran says it has conducted negotiations with as many as 30 different companies in nine European countries for oil and gas developments. Iranian people deserve better leaders: Sarkozy
AFP: French President Nicolas Sarkozy hit out at the Iranian leadership Monday, saying Iranians deserved better after the hotly disputed re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in June. Germany to host six-power talks on Iran this week
Reuters: Germany will host high-level talks this week between the United States, China, France, Britain, Russia and Germany on Iran's nuclear program, the Foreign Ministry said on Monday. 