Reuters: U.S. President Barack Obama's offer of better ties with Iran provides the best opportunity to improve relations with the Islamic state, Foreign Secretary David Miliband said on Thursday.
Obama Iran offer seen as best chance of restoring ties – UK
Iran to attend US-backed Afghan conference
AFP: Iran said on Thursday it will attend a US-backed conference on Afghanistan to be held in The Hague next week, in a signal it is ready to help the new US administration restore stability to its eastern neighbour.
Iran, NATO hold first talks in 30 years: official
AFP: An Iranian diplomat and a NATO official have held "informal talks" at alliance headquarters in Brussels in the first such meeting in 30 years, NATO officials confirmed Thursday.
Irans Parliament Speaker disparages Obamas video overture
New York Times: Ali Larijani, the speaker of Iran’s Parliament, criticized the United States on Wednesday in harsher terms than any other leading Iranian figure has done since President Obama extended his videotaped olive branch to Iran last week.
Parents of imprisoned journalist plan Iran trip
AP: The father of imprisoned journalist Roxana Saberi says he and his wife are making plans to go to Iran to see her in a couple of days.
Iran official on Iraq visit downplays US overture
AP: Iran's influential parliament speaker on a visit to Iraq is downplaying U.S. President Barack Obama's recent videotaped overture to Iran.
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.
