Read Obama's address to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee conference, where he talks about his commitment to Israel and the dangers of Iran's nuclear program.
At his annual address at the pro-Israel lobby group AIPAC Sunday morning, President Barack Obama sought to reaffirm his commitment to Israel's security while warning against too much loose talk of war that has driven up the cost of oil.
In the light of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's visit to the U.S. to discuss strategies regarding Iran's allegedly clandestine nuclear weapons program, President Obama has made it clear that the U.S. will strive to protect its ally Israel, though he would persuade the Jewish state to postpone its war plans.
Iran will likely be the most-discussed issue at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) Policy Conference in the next few days, where three of the four remaining candidates for the Republican presidential nomination will give prominent speeches the morning of Super Tuesday.
Obama is concerned that a military strike on Iran by Israel might make Tehran more of a sympathetic figure to some countries
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Despite international pressure against the deal, Pakistan said it would honor a 2010 agreement to build a natural gas pipeline that will eventually send 8.7 billion cubic meters of Iranian gas to Pakistan annually.
For several months, the Iranian people have been living under economic hardship brought on by sanctions imposed by the U.S. and European Union over their government's nuclear energy program, which some believe is a cover for producing nuclear weapons. The sanctions, designed to prevent money-laundering that could fund nuclear research and development, have hampered the country's foreign trade and frozen Iranian firms out of the global banking system.
North Korea has agreed with the United States to suspend major elements of its atomic weapons programme in a surprise breakthrough that could pave the way for the resumption of long-stalled nuclear disarmament talks with the secretive state.
Turkey is maintaining the façade of good relations with Iran, while a larger power struggle for domination of the Middle East is brewing between Ankara and Tehran
China welcomed the pact, but remained somewhat cautious about hopes for a nuclear-free future on the Korean peninsula.
In a surprise move, North Korea agreed to temporarily suspend its nuclear tests and the launch of long range ballistic missile in exchange for 240,000 metric tons of food aid from the U.S. The breakthrough decision was announced in two separate statements released in Washington and Pyongyang on Wednesday.
North Korea has agreed with the United States to suspend major elements of its atomic weapons program in a surprise breakthrough that could pave the way for the resumption of long-stalled nuclear disarmament talks with the secretive state.
While the international community and the U.N. nuclear watchdog allege that Iran is operating a clandestine nuclear weapons program, the latter has gone a step further in denial to condemn the production of atomic weapons as a great sin.
A senior Muslim Brotherhood member and the head of the foreign affairs committee in the Egyptian parliament said on Monday that the popular political uprising that swept across the Middle East last year, overthrowing many dictatorial regimes including that of Egypt, is headed to Iran.
Iran's foreign minister insisted that the country's nuclear program is not intended to make weapons and called for a resumption of talks, while speaking to the United Nations on Wednesday.
According to the rights group, lawyers, teachers, students and journalists are all being arrested as the country prepares for elections on Friday.
Israel may be planning to launch an attack on Iran, without warning its most important ally the U.S., a U.S. intelligence official familiar with the bilateral discussions between the two nations told the Associated Press.
A decades-old dispute between Argentina and the United Kingdom over the remote Falkland Islands, which the Argentines call the Malvinas, heated up Monday when two Carnival Corp. cruise ships were refused entry at the port of Ushuaia.
An ex-official from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said that Iran's use of old technology could be making it difficult for Tehran to expand its nuclear program.
Israel’s hawkish Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is scheduled to visit with President Barack Obama in Washington next week to discuss the Iran matter.
Weapons-grade uranium. There’s an ominous ring to those words.
