Posted on April 14th, 2012 by Marian Houk
After two sessions in one day in Istanbul on Saturday 14 April, six nations agreed to meet again with Iranian delegation on 23 May — in Baghdad. Baghdad — that’s a strange choice of venue. [Are we supposed to believe that Iran prefers Baghdad, because it's annoyed with Turkey?] Here is a photo of Iranian [...]
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Filed under: Iran, Negotiators and negotiations, Nuclear technology and weapons, Turkey
Posted on April 14th, 2012 by Marian Houk
Six-nations talks with Iran about its nuclear program have started in Istanbul. The last such talks, also held in Istanbul, ended without progress in January 2011. UPDATE: After two sessions, it was agreed that further talks will be held on May 23 — in Baghdad. [For those of us with memories of the Iran-Iraq war, [...]
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Filed under: Iran, Negotiators and negotiations, Nuclear technology and weapons, USA
Posted on April 10th, 2012 by Marian Houk
As Iran’s enigmatic-by-necessity former nuclear negotiator Hossein Mosavian [now living in the U.S. after being jailed in Iran for his contacts abroad] has written, here [see previous articles, http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/view/274770], the six-country talks with Iran about its nuclear program that are scheduled to take place this weekend in Istanbul are the first time in nine years [...]
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Filed under: Iran, Israel, Nuclear technology and weapons, Sanctions, USA
Posted on April 9th, 2012 by Marian Houk
After some interesting moves over the past week, the positioning ahead of the 6-nation talks with Iran about its nuclear program is getting tedious. The “P5+1″ talks with Iran [or, as the Europeans prefer to call them, "P3+3"] countries — Germany, Britain, France, China, Russia, and the U.S. — will be held either on the [...]
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Filed under: Iran, Israel, Negotiators and negotiations
Posted on April 8th, 2012 by Marian Houk
In advance of important talks with Iran about its nuclear program on 13 [or 14?] April [apparently in Istanbul, after all] Israeli Maj-Gen (res) Amos Gilad said in a briefing in Jerusalem this week that Iran, today, has ability to put together a nuclear weapon [but probably won't]. Iran does “have the know-how to assemble [...]
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Filed under: Iran, Israel, Negotiators and negotiations, Nuclear technology and weapons, Palestine & Palestinians, UN Security Council, USA
Posted on February 25th, 2012 by Marian Houk
Who or What is Ahvaaz [Avaaz]? And, why do veteran combat journalsts working for major news organizations trust Avaaz with their lives in getting into, and when inside, the Baba Amr quarter of Homs, Syria, which has been beseiged by the Syrian army on a mission to exterminate “Islamist terrorism”? Ahvaaz [Avaaz]: The name of [...]
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Filed under: Boundaries & Borders, Human Rights, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Journalism and Journalists, Syria, Turkey, USA
Posted on November 18th, 2011 by Marian Houk
The IAEA has passed what appears to be a mild resolution in response to its toughest report yet about Iran’s nuclear program. The IAEA report suggested that there was no way to understand parts of Iran’s nuclear research other than to believe there was an aim to study how a nuclear weapon might be developed. [...]
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Filed under: International Atomic Energy Agency - IAEA, Iran, Nuclear technology and weapons, UN General Assembly, UN Security Council, US in UN
Posted on November 9th, 2011 by Marian Houk
The latest and much-anticipated IAEA report on Iran was distributed to members of the Board of Governors in Vienna — and almost immediately leaked to the press. What does it say? It can be read in full here: here. It starts right out with this statement, rebuffing Iran’s efforts to negotiate or wheedle an arrangement [...]
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Filed under: International Atomic Energy Agency - IAEA, Iran, Nuclear technology and weapons, UN Security Council
Posted on March 19th, 2011 by Marian Houk
In a silly but revealing interview with CNN’s Piers Morgan, Israel’s Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu made several noteworthy quotes. The choice, for our Quote of the Day series, however, will go to his remarks explicitly saying that “several Palestinian terrorists” are responsible — though no one has yet been charged, much less tried or convicted [...]
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Filed under: Gaza, Iran, Israel, Journalism and Journalists, Lebanon, Palestine & Palestinians
Posted on December 4th, 2010 by Marian Houk
The Swiss Foreign Ministry has announced that it will host the talks on Iran’s nuclear program in Geneva on 6 + 7 December. The Swiss Government refers to these talks in the European fashion: E3+3, rather than P5+1. The Swiss announcement said that “The E3+3 delegation will be led by the EU High Representative for [...]
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Filed under: Iran, Negotiators and negotiations, Nuclear technology and weapons, Switzerland, USA
