AP: Iran has accepted an invitation to a conference on Afghanistan next week that also will be attended by the U.S., the conference's Dutch host said Wednesday. Iran accepts call to join US at Afghan meeting
AP: Iran has accepted an invitation to a conference on Afghanistan next week that also will be attended by the U.S., the conference's Dutch host said Wednesday. US urges Iran to give access to jailed journalist
Reuters: The United States on Wednesday urged Tehran to grant consular access to an Iranian-American journalist jailed in Iran, whose father said she had become "suicidal" since her January incarceration. Iraq ambassador pick Hill says Iran ‘real problem’
AFP: US President Barack Obama's nominee to be ambassador to Baghdad, veteran diplomat and North Korea expert Christopher Hill, told lawmakers Wednesday that Iran remains "a real problem" for Iraq. Pain Iran can believe in
Wall Street Journal – REVIEW & OUTLOOK: As a general rule, economic sanctions are a poor foreign policy instrument: hard to enforce (think Burma), prone to corruption (think Oil for Food), rarely effective (think Cuba). But in the case of Iran, let's make an exception.
Obama says expects steady progress on Iran
Reuters: President Barack Obama said on Tuesday he did not expect any change overnight in U.S.-Iranian relations, but foresaw steady progress in resolving problems between the two long-time foes. Hundreds executed in Iran in 2008 – Amnesty
Iran Focus: London, Mar. 24 – Iran executed at least 346 people in 2008, a prominent international human rights organisation said on Tuesday.
Hundreds executed in Iran in 2008 – Amnesty
Iran Focus: London, Mar. 24 – Iran executed at least 346 people in 2008, a prominent international human rights organisation said on Tuesday.
Irish firm and officers charged with sales to Iran
AP: An Irish trading company and three of its officers have been charged with sending helicopter engines and other aircraft parts to Iran, according to an indictment unsealed in federal court Tuesday Will Obama listen to Iran’s bloggers?
Wall Street Journal: Barack Obama extended the olive branch to Iran's leaders last Friday in a videotaped message praising a "great civilization" for "accomplishments" that "have earned the respect of the United States and the world." The death of Iranian blogger Omid-Reza Mirsayafi in Tehran's Evin prison two days earlier was, presumably, not among the accomplishments the president had in mind.
U.S. journalist held in Iran suicidal, father says
Reuters: The father of a Iranian-American journalist imprisoned in Iran said on Tuesday that his daughter had become suicidal and threatened to mount a hunger strike as her confinement drags on. 