AFP: Canada’s prime minister on Tuesday cautioned US President Barack Obama about pursuing diplomacy with Iran. “I certainly would not fault President Obama and our allies from trying,” Stephen Harper said in Ottawa.
Canada’s prime minister cautions Obama over Iran
Demonstrators near UN: Iran’s new president has blood on his hands
CBS: Thousands rallied near the United Nations Tuesday to protest Iran’s new president. As WCBS 880′s Alex Silverman reported, the demonstrators were joined by some high-profile politicians who said Rouhani’s recent talk of opening dialogue with the United States is merely a ruse.
Obama: Syrian chemical weapon ban must be enforced
AP: President Barack Obama said Tuesday the U.N. Security Council must agree to a resolution on Syrian chemical weapons that includes consequences for President Bashar Assad if he doesn’t meet demands to dismantle his stockpile.
Five reasons not to trust Iran on nukes
Bloomberg: Iranian President Hassan Rohani who this week is attempting to charm the pants off the United Nations, President Barack Obama, world Jewry and Charlie Rose — may succeed in convincing many people that the supreme leader of Iran doesn’t actually want to gain control of a nuclear arsenal.
How Obama was checkmated by Iran
Bloomberg: “Down is up and up is down. I feel like we have passed through the looking glass and are looking back at a backwards world,” a military historian of the modern Middle East wrote in a recent note to me about the hectic diplomacy over Syria and Iran.
US seeks ‘substance’ from Iran in nuclear talks
AFP: The United States is looking to see if Iran is prepared to engage seriously with the international community in the dragging talks on its suspect nuclear program, US officials said Monday.
Britain awaits ‘concrete’ steps by Iran: Hague
AFP: The international community is waiting for “concrete steps” by Iran before moving to improve relations with the country’s new government, British Foreign Secretary William Hague said Monday.
Easing sanctions no easy goal for Iran’s president
AP: Near Iran’s border with Iraq, work crews are putting finishing touches on a petrochemical plant expected to pump out hundreds of tons a year of oil-based products that the country hopes can slip through the net of Western economic sanctions.
U.S. senators urge Obama to take tough line on Iran
Reuters: In a pair of letters, Democrats Robert Menendez and Charles Schumer, and Republicans Lindsey Graham and John McCain, said Obama should use his U.N. speech to restate the U.S. goal of stopping Iran from achieving nuclear weapons capability and demanding verifiable actions from Tehran.
US-Iran prisoners appeal to Rowhani
AFP: Supporters of two US citizens jailed in Iran appealed for their freedom Monday as President Hassan Rowhani arrived for the UN General Assembly, with one handing him a letter.
