Partner Links: Learn Hebrew • Travel to Israel • Live Kotel Camera • Israel Pharmacy • Cellphone Rentals in Israel • Shalem College Open House

Wednesday, May 22, 2013
Sivan 13, 5773
4:30 pm IDT
Site updated 1 minute ago

The Times of Israel

The one-stop news site
covering Israel, the region and
the Jewish people worldwide

Founding editor:
David Horovitz

Fair, fresh and fast

The Jewish world's
fastest-growing
news site

Topic: Iran

Page 2 of 113
<
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
...
113
>

May 18, 2013
3:56 am

North Korean army officers punch the air as they chant slogans during a rally at Kim Il Sung Square in downtown Pyongyang, North Korea, Friday, March 29 (photo credit: AP/Jon Chol Jin)

UN panel: Sanctions delaying North Korea nuke program

International measures against Pyongyang have stifled, but not halted, unsanctioned nuclear project, Security Council finds

May 17, 2013
10:36 pm

Syrian President Bahsar Assad, center, shakes hands with a member of Iran's parliamentary committee on national interest and foreign policy, in Damascus, Syria, Monday, April 22, 2013. (photo credit: AP/SANA)

France opposes Syria conference if Iran to attend

From the web No date has yet been agreed for the international meeting, which appears to face growing obstacles, Reuters reports

May 17, 2013
7:09 pm

Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei casts his ballot for the parliamentary runoff elections, in Tehran, last May (photo credit: AP/Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader)

Iran may ban candidates who seek ties with US

Election official, apparently targeting Rafsanjani, derides notion that renewing diplomatic relations with DC will ease nuclear sanctions

May 17, 2013
4:06 pm

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (photo credit: Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Hold Syrian peace talks, says UN chief

From the web Reuters: Ban Ki-moon makes push for international conference that will include Assad government and opposition representatives

May 16, 2013
5:24 pm

Iranian women queue to cast their ballot for the parliamentary elections at Masoumeh shrine in the city of Qom, Iran, on Friday, March 2, 2012 (photo credit: AP/Kamran Jebreili)

Iranian cleric: Women can’t be president

Ayatollah Mohammad Yazdi’s ruling effectively terminates bids of about 30 female would-be candidates

May 16, 2013
4:58 pm

Iran’s chief nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili speaks during a press conference in New Delhi, in January 2013. (Photo credit: AP/Tsering Topgyal)

Iran, world powers to resume nuclear talks

Tehran’s chief negotiator doesn’t say whether new round to begin before or after upcoming elections in the Islamic Republic

May 15, 2013
10:03 pm

Iran's envoy to the International Atomic Energy Agency, Ali Asghar Soltanieh (photo credit: AP/Ronald Zak/File)

UN fails again to reach nuke probe deal with Iran

Tehran chief negotiator calls 10th inconclusive IAEA meeting ‘constructive,’ continues to deny interest in nuclear arms

May 15, 2013
7:23 pm

Wendy Sherman (photo credit: CC-BY dbking, Flickr)

US explores new ways to press Iran on nuke program

State Department’s nuclear negotiator with Tehran presents Congress with new range of options to deter Islamic Republic

May 15, 2013
12:38 pm

Former Iranian President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, waves to media, as he registers his candidacy for the upcoming presidential election, May 11, 2013 (photo credit: AP/Ebrahim Noroozi)

Iran hard-liners urge election ban on 2 candidates

Leaders try barring ex-president Rafsanjani for supporting the opposition and a confidant of Ahmadinejad for ‘un-Islamic attitudes’

May 15, 2013
11:47 am

Poster of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah from 2006 (photo credit: Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Hezbollah to open ‘new front’ in Golan Heights

Iran reportedly convinces Assad to let Lebanese group attack Israel from Syrian territory, calls on ‘all Arabs and Muslims’ to unite and join fight

By Michal Shmulovich

May 15, 2013
1:14 am

Silver medalist Sadegh Saeed Goudarzi, from Iran; gold medalist Jordan Ernest Burroughs, from the US; bronze medalist Soslan Tigiev, from Uzbekistan; and bronze medalist Denis Tsargush, from Russia, participate in the medals ceremony for men's 74-kg freestyle wrestling competition at the 2012 Summer Olympics, in London, Friday, August 10, 2012. (photo credit: AP/Paul Sancya, File)

Wrestlers from Iran, US and Russia take to the mat for sport

Exhibition matches, to be held at Grand Central Station, designed to highlight the sport’s international appeal and popularity with sport threatened at Olympics

By Luke Meredith

May 14, 2013
11:57 pm

Wrestlers in the 74 kilogram weight class Hassan Tahmasebi, left, of Iran, shakes hands with USA wrestler Kyle Dake, Tuesday, May 14, 2013 (photo credit: AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)

US, Russia and Iran work to save Olympic wrestling

Countries’ representatives cooperate in an effort to overturn a committee ruling to drop the sport from 2020 competition

By RACHEL COHEN

May 14, 2013
5:15 pm

EU Foreign Policy chief Catherine Ashton, left, speaks with Iran's chief nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili during May 2012 talks in Baghdad (photo credit: Hadi Mizban/AP)

Iran seeks ‘constructive’ EU stance in nuke talks

Foreign Ministry spokesman says Tehran’s nuclear negotiator hopes to restart dialogue with the US and other world powers

May 14, 2013
4:52 am

A conference on facilitating the entry into force of the comprehensive nuclear test ban treaty. (phot credit: CC BY The Official CTBTO Photostream, Flickr)

US to boycott UN anti-nuke meetings chaired by Iran

Tehran to assume ceremonial presidency of influential Conference on Disarmament later this month

By Edith M. Lederer

May 13, 2013
10:06 pm

Venezuela's newly elected President Nicolas Maduro celebrates his victory at the Miraflores Palace in Caracas, Venezuela, Sunday, April 14, 2013. (photo credit: AP/Ramon Espinosa)

Venezuela’s ‘anti-Semitic’ leader admits Jewish ancestry

Nicolas Maduro defends Caracas’s policies toward Israel, says his grandparents were Sephardic Jews who converted to Catholicism