At a summit expected to produce at least the new outline of free trade agreements with key Asian markets, Middle East geopolitics took center-stage, at least initially, as the United States and Russia reaffirmed their intention to work and shape a common response regarding Iran's nuclear program.
A massive explosion at a military arms depot near the Iranian capital Tehran on Saturday killed 17 Revolutionary Guards and wounded 15, a representative of the elite fighting force told the semiofficial Fars news agency.
The incident occurred in the village of Bigdaneh, near the city of Karaj.
A massive explosion at a military arms depot near the Iranian capital Tehran killed 15 servicemen on Saturday and seriously wounded several others, in what officials were treating as an accident.
United States Defense Secretary Leon Panetta does not think attacking Iran would be a good idea, even if Iran is building nuclear weapons.
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney laid down a foreign policy marker on Wednesday, saying that if elected he would not allow Iran to develop nuclear weapons.
Russia and China voiced their opposition to new round of sanctions against Iran in a meeting in Moscow. Russia and China have expressed “the mutual conviction that the application of new, additional sanctions against Iran will not lead to the desired result,” Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
As expected, Tehran is annoyed with the International Atomic Energy Agency's Tuesday report stating serious concerns about Iran's clandestine program aimed at developing nuclear warheads.
Russia attacked Tuesday's International Atomic Energy Agency report on Iran's nuclear program, saying that it would not allow the United Nations to impose any punitive measures on the Islamic republic.
Pakistan is on a clandestine mission of hiding its nuclear arsenal from the Pentagon and is transporting weapons of mass destruction in low-security vans on roads used by civilians, The Atlantic and National Journal report, quoting unnamed U.S. officials.
Moments after the International Atomic Energy Agency issued its report on Iran's nuclear weapons program, Iran went on the defensive, calling the finding a hoax devised by the United States.
Iran has conclusively worked on nuclear weapons, as well as tested weapons' parts, in the past and could still be doing it, the International Atomic Energy Agency said in a report.
As the United Nations International Atomic Energy Agency prepares to unveil its report on Iran's nuclear program, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Tuesday that the Islamic republican did not need a nuclear mob to confront the United States.
Russia thinks that a pre-emptive military strike against Iran and Iran's nuclear weapons program by Israel or any Western power would be an extremely bad idea.
With Israeli President, Shimon Peres, trying to show U.N. nations the threat Israel faces from Iran and urging them to build pressure on Iran to disclose its nuclear programs, Iran seems to be inching towards becoming the next target of the U.S. and UK coalition forces.
Documents provided by secret intelligence to United Nations' nuclear watchdog, International Atomic Energy Agency has mentioned that the Iran Government has reached its full nuclear capability with the assistance of foreign scientists.
Israeli President Shimon Peres has warned that an attack on Iran is becoming more and more likely.
Actress Naomi Watts and former CIA operative Valerie Plame Wilson presented their message to Congress Wednesday: no nukes, please.
Both an Israel-Iran war and a nuclear Iran would pose serious threats to security in the Middle East, as well as in the rest of the world.
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) had confirmed what many in the west already assumed – that the Iranians are building nuclear weapons.
A new report by the Daily Mail indicates that the United States and Britain are working together to draft a plan to attack Iran as evidence of new nuclear weapons capabilities in the Middle Eastern country arises.
Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain said on Wednesday that his opponents are trying to destroy me over allegations of sexual harassment that have rocked his 2012 bid.
