Syria Comment
March 12, 2011
The new resolution is the third to impose sanctions on Iran for its refusal to cease enriching uranium.
March 4, 2008Officials with the U.N. nuclear watchdog said Iran had refused to deal with the evidence that served as the basis for American charges that Iran had tried to design a weapon.
February 23, 2008The decision reverses the United States’ longstanding refusal to share the data, citing the need to protect intelligence sources.
February 15, 2008The content of the new United Nations Security Council resolution draft to induce Tehran to give up its nuclear program has not been announced.
January 23, 2008Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei tells visiting International Atomic Energy Agency chief Mohamed ElBaradei that Iran's nuclear case should be handled by IAEA and not United Nations Security Council, which has imposed two rounds of sanctions on Iran
January 13, 2008Mohamed ElBaradei, chief of International Atomic Energy Agency, urges Iran to move more quickly to clarify questions about its nuclear activities; describes his talks in Tehran with Gholam Reza Aghazadeh, chief of Iranian Atomic Energy Organization, as 'frank and friendly'
January 12, 2008The trip comes at a time of renewed efforts by the United States to keep the pressure on Iran on the nuclear issue.
January 8, 2008Nine months after new sanctions were imposed on Iran, it has steadily increased its enrichment of uranium, which can be used to produce electricity or fuel bombs.
November 30, 2007British Prime Min Gordon Brown says Britain will push for worldwide ban on foreign investment in Iran's oil and gas industry and other financial sanctions unless two reports due this month show that Iran is ready to abandon its efforts to acquire nuclear weapons; reports by European Union foreign policy chief Javier Solana and by International Atomic Energy Agency chief Mohamed ElBaradei are due before end of month
November 13, 2007International Atomic Energy Agency director Mohamed ElBaradei urges Bush administration to tone down rhetoric on Iran, while maintaining diplomatic pressure on country to halt its pursuit of nuclear weapons program; American lawmakers are split on whether administration's tough talk has helped or hindered efforts to influence Iran
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The Op-Ed columnist Roger Cohen speaks with Mohamed ElBaradei, the Nobel laureate and opposition leader, about democracy in Egypt.
Egyptian opposition leader Mohamed ElBaradei addressed protesters in Cairo's Tahrir Square saying we "cannot go back" and demanding "the end of the regime." (Video: Reuters)
Egyptians were more concerned with ousting President Hosni Mubarak than the speech Tahrir Square by opposition leader Mohamed ElBaradei.
Mohamed ElBaradei, the Nobel laureate who has become a leading opponent of President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt, returned to Cairo in an attempt to galvanize youth-led street protests that extended into a third day across the country.
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