Iran says the United States should accept its consequences after a U.S. surveillance aircraft went down in Iranian territory earlier this month. The Obama administration has made a formal request for Iran to return the aircraft, but Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast said Tuesday that the U.S. should apologize instead. Iran has complained to […]
US Calls on Iran to Return Downed Drone
Posted December 13th, 2011 at 5:00 am (UTC-5)
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US Calls on Iran to Return Downed Drone
Posted December 12th, 2011 at 7:15 pm (UTC-5)
The Obama administration has made a formal request to Iran for the return of a U.S. surveillance aircraft that went down in Iranian territory earlier this month. President Barack Obama, in a session with reporters Monday, refused to comment on what he termed “intelligence matters that are classified.” But news reports say the aircraft with […]
Obama: US Wants Iran to Return Downed Drone
Posted December 12th, 2011 at 2:55 pm (UTC-5)
U.S. President Barack Obama says the United States has asked for Iran to return a U.S. surveillance drone that Tehran says it brought down through a cyber attack. President Obama said Monday he would not comment on classified intelligence matters, but that the United States has asked for the drone back and will “see how […]
Iranian Human Rights Activists Criticize Tehran’s Satellite Jamming
Posted December 9th, 2011 at 4:05 pm (UTC-5)
Two prominent Iranian human rights activists are calling on the European Union and United States to take action against European satellite companies who host Iranian state programming. Nobel Peace Prize winner and human-rights lawyer Shirin Ebadi and the director of the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran Hadi Ghaemi made the comments on Friday […]
Iranian Human Rights Activists Criticize Tehran’s Satellite Jamming
Posted December 9th, 2011 at 12:05 pm (UTC-5)
Two prominent Iranian human rights activists are calling on the European Union and United States to take action against European satellite companies who host Iranian state programming. Nobel Peace Prize winner and human-rights lawyer Shirin Ebadi and the director of the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran Hadi Ghaemi made the comments on Friday […]
Family of Missing Ex-FBI Agent Releases Hostage Video
Posted December 9th, 2011 at 8:35 am (UTC-5)
The family of a retired FBI agent thought to have been kidnapped in Iran in 2007 has released a hostage video showing him to be alive. In the the 54-second video released Friday, an exhausted-looking Robert Levinson is seen in a makeshift cell pleading for the U.S. government to “answer the requests” of the unspecified […]
Japan Widens Sanctions Against Iran
Posted December 9th, 2011 at 3:30 am (UTC-5)
Japan announced Friday that it is imposing a fresh round of financial sanctions against Iran, as European Union leaders meeting in Brussels consider their own plan to turn up the pressure on Tehran over its controversial nuclear program. Japan’s cabinet on Friday said it will freeze the assets of 106 organizations, one individual and three […]
Iran Shows Footage of Purported US Drone
Posted December 8th, 2011 at 6:50 pm (UTC-5)
Iranian state television on Thursday released the first images of what it said was a U.S. unmanned reconnaissance drone downed on Sunday along Iran’s eastern border after it made a brief incursion into its airspace. The footage shows Iranian military officials inspecting an aerial vehicle resembling a high-tech RQ-170 Sentinel drone. The vehicle appears to […]
Iran Shows Footage of Purported US Drone
Posted December 8th, 2011 at 5:55 pm (UTC-5)
Iranian state television has released the first images of what it said was a U.S. unmanned reconnaissance drone downed on Sunday along Iran’s eastern border after it made a brief incursion into its airspace. The footage broadcast Thursday evening, shows Iranian military officials inspecting an aerial vehicle resembling a high-tech RQ-170 Sentinel drone. The vehicle […]
US Condemns Iran’s Blockage of ‘Virtual Embassy Tehran’
Posted December 7th, 2011 at 9:05 pm (UTC-5)
The United States has condemned Iran’s blockage of an interactive online “Virtual U.S. Embassy Tehran,” less than 24 hours after it was officially launched in Washington. In a statement Wednesday, the White House said that “through this action, the Iranian government has once again demonstrated its commitment to build an electronic curtain of surveillance and […]
