News Archive - 24 November 2013

The White House says President Barack Obama has phoned Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to discuss a tentative deal with Iran over its nuclear program.

The White House says President Barack Obama has phoned Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to discuss a tentative deal with Iran over its nuclear program. White House spokesman Josh Earnest told reporters travelling with Obama on Sunday that the United States looks forward to consulting...

>RIYADH (Reuters) - People in the Middle East will lose sleep over a nuclear deal between global powers and Iran, a Saudi foreign policy adviser said on Sunday, signaling the deep unease Sunni Muslim Gulf states have over Western rapprochement with their Shi'ite foe. At the time the adviser spoke,...

>* Iran gets limited relief from sanctions in return* Israel condemns pact as "historic mistake"* Risk of hardliners on both sides undermining deal (Adds U.S. congressional reaction, comments from Iran's foreign minister)By Parisa Hafezi and Justyna PawlakGENEVA, Nov 24 (Reuters) - Iran and six world powers clinched a deal...

>"This can be the basis for further intelligent actions. Without a doubt the grace of God and the prayers of the Iranian nation were a factor in this success," Khamenei wrote in a letter to President Hassan Rouhani published by the IRNA state news agency.(Reporting By Jon Hemming) FILED...

U.S. Senator Jerry Moran, R-Kan., issued a statement Sunday in reaction to President Barack Obama's announcement that a six-month international deal has been reached in regard to Iran's nuclear program.

The interim nuclear accord between Iran and the six world powers is a significant accomplishment by any measure. The agreement is the product of years of co-ordinated, sustained diplomacy, mostly involving the US and its principal European partners.

WASHINGTON (AP) — For 51 years of war and peace, Republicans and Democrats rallied around a bill to pay the troops, buy ships and aircraft and set military policy.

To hear the top brass talk sometimes, you might think the biggest threat to national security is your paycheck.

>WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Despite humiliation, solitary confinement and having a gun held to his head during the U.S. Embassy crisis in Iran three decades ago, former hostage Bruce Laingen still favors diplomacy with Tehran. The most senior diplomat at the embassy when it was seized by Islamist students in...

>DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran's nuclear deal with the West is not intended to let more of its oil into the market, the White House said, but an easing of the ban on European shipping insurance may help smooth crude exports to its big Asian customers. Iran and six world powers...

>GENEVA (Reuters) - The U.N. nuclear watchdog is to play a major role in verifying the implementation of a landmark deal to curb Iran's atomic activities that negotiators for Tehran and six major powers reached in Geneva on Sunday. With inspectors present in Iran virtually around the clock -...

GENEVA (AP) - Iran struck a historic deal Sunday with the United States and five other world powers, agreeing to a temporary freeze of its nuclear program in the most significant agreement between Washington and Tehran in more than three decades of estr...

Authorities identify two men who launched double suicide attack on Iranian embassy which killed 25 people in Hezbollah bastion.

WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama says a nuclear deal with Iran is an "important first step" toward addressing the world's concerns over the Islamic republic's disputed nuclear program.

BEIRUT, Lebanon, Nov. 24 (UPI) -- Lebanon security officials say the two suicide bombers outside the Iranian embassy who killed 29 people were Lebanese and Palestinian nationals.

JERUSALEM: Isolated and angry with its ally the United States, Israel Sunday bitterly denounced a “bad” nuclear deal between world powers and Tehran while repeating its threat of military action against Iran.

>All Arab countries apart from Syria and Iraq are ruled by Sunni Muslims who mainly regard Shi'ite Iran as a foe and have been deeply uneasy over the prospect of any rapprochement with the West that would benefit Tehran.Arab leaders worry that the deal, under which Iran is being...

>* U.S. says shipping, insurance sanctions remain in place* Sees Iran's multi-billion dollar losses continuing (Adds detail on EU insurance)By Daniel FinerenDUBAI, Nov 24 (Reuters) - The nuclear deal signed on Sunday will not allow any more Iranian oil into the market, or let western energy investors into the...

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