By Gary Thomas Tehran 20 July 2006 Iran says it is still studying a package of incentives offered by the West to get Tehran to halt uranium enrichment. The country's National Security Council has also accused the United States of attempting to block...
By Scott Stearns White House 23 June 2006 Iran says it will not stop enriching uranium as a precondition for potential talks with the United States and European allies. President Bush wants Iran to respond to an offer from the international communit...
By Gary Thomas Tehran 19 July 2006 Iran has not responded to a European offer of incentives designed to induce it to give up any nuclear weapons ambitions. Iranian officials have said Iran will give its answer by the end of August, but the West has...
By Gary Thomas Tehran 17 July 2006 Twenty-seven years ago, a group of Iranian students stormed the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, taking 66 embassy staff members hostage and holding most of them for more than a year. VOA correspondent Gary Thomas, who is i...
By Michael Bowman Washington 16 July 2006 Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice says Iran and Syria are fomenting conflict in the Middle East by supporting Hezbollah and other militant groups. ------- Condoleezza Rice (r) and George Bush at the G-8 su...
By Scott Stearns St. Petersburg 15 July 2006 President Bush and Russian President Vladimir Putin have agreed to continue working together to resolve the stand-off over Iran enriching uranium. But the American leader failed to get President Putin's b...
By Gary Thomas Tehran 13 July 2006 Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad The election of a hard-line conservative to the Iranian presidency last year was a shock for reformists, who had been hoping for a more liberal successor to former President Mo...
By Al Pessin Pentagon 22 June 2006 The top U.S. commander in Iraq has accused Iran of increasing its involvement in the Shiite insurgency in Iraq, and using its allies to launch attacks on U.S. forces. At a news conference at the Pentagon, General G...
By Parke Brewer Leipzig 21 June 2006 The football teams from Iran and Angola concluded their World Cup campaigns by playing to a hard-fought 1-1 draw. VOA Sports Editor Parke Brewer was at Wednesdays Group D match in Leipzig and has a report. ------...
By Paula Wolfson Vienna 21 June 2006 President Bush and European Union leaders say they are united on Iran and pledge to work together to resolve lingering differences on issues of trade and the fate of the U.S. detention camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cub...