The board expressed gratitude for the Obama administration’s focus on the Iranian nuclear threat, but went on to say that the Iran deal should be strengthened, war is not the only alternative to the deal (Obama has claimed it is) and Israel is being singled out.
Investment in infrastructure, oil imports and ironing out troubles over the planned Chabahar port development project are on the agenda as Iran’s Foreign Minister Javad Zarif meets the government in Delhi on Friday. He said that Israeli propaganda over the course of the...
Moreover, the letter also contained an unmistakable warning: “If the deal is rejected by America, the Iranians could have a nuclear weapon within a year”, it said. “They’d kill them in front of all the villagers, and say ‘We’re going to run our...
China’s foreign ministry voiced its opposition to Saturday’s visits in a statement which said they demonstrated “Japan’s erroneous attitudes toward the historical issues”.
Under the worldwide agreement reached last month, Russia, China and European Union countries will lift their sanctions on Iran as Iran accepts curbs and inspections on its nuclear program.
That reasoning led to the much-criticized White House tactic of insisting that the only alternative to the deal is war with Iran, or some other unacceptable disaster such as the desertion of the United States by its allies or loss of its dominant economic status. In return,...
Chuck Schumer scrambling to abandon the president, is whether an Obama veto will hold. He and his Israeli counterparts believe communities like these would be at greater risk if the Iran deal passed and Iran had more capital to fund terrorism in the region, including Hamas. An...
Abe, the grandson of a wartime cabinet minister, himself did not visit the shrine, which honours 14 Japanese leaders convicted as war criminals by an Allied tribunal, along with millions of war dead.
Tens of thousands gathered in Hiroshima Thursday to mark 70 years since the dropping of the first atomic bomb, with opinion still divided over whether its deadly destruction was justified. Abe said that to demonstrate this determination, Japan will introduce a new resolution at...
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif will arrive in India on Thursday on a 20-hour visit during which he will meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi and External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj.
The commentary said descendants of any country in the world must inherit their predecessors’ past attainments along with responsibilities brought by their forebears’ prior crimes. At the last two ceremonies, he also did not pledge that Japan would never go to war....