NPR: Obama: U.S. to pursue face-to-face negotiations with Iran on nuclear programTuesday, September 24, 2013 “Certainly sanctions have sharpened the focus and sharpened the choices of Ira...
Four years after President Barack Obama famously extended his hand of friendship to Iran, Tehran finally seems willing to unclench its fist. The most decisive geopolitical handshake of this decad...
This week's events at and surrounding the UN General Assembly will help determine whether the U.S. and Iran can resolve their differences, or if hardliners on either side will once again succeed ...
Iran's new president has sent positive signals and undertaken actions that suggest a nuclear compromise is achievable, U.S.-Iran tensions can be resolved, and the human rights situation in Iran c...
“Rouhani and his foreign minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, may not have approval from the Islamic republic establishment as a whole, but at this point it looks increasingly clear that they have th...
"Amid the debate over how to respond to Bashar al-Assad's alleged use of chemical weapons against the Syrian people...But while the United States may not be able to orchestrate a decisive shift i...
“In political systems [like the one in Iran], where institutions aren’t that strong, personalities make a huge difference,” says Parsi. “And Zarif is a heavyweight.” &nbs...
Iranian Nobel prize laureate Shirin Ebadi has long argued that the United States and Iran need to have a dialogue with each other at three different levels: between their executive branches, betw...