http://78.38.204.135/Majles Rss FeedTEHRAN, August 21 (ICANA) - An Iranian parliamentary think-tank has reviewed the seasonal reports filed by the Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) about Iran’s peaceful nuclear program warning that these reports could be eventually used as a pressure lever against Tehran.NewsPage.aspx?NewsID=1757582011-08-21T11:32:44.0000000+04:30TEHRAN, August 20 (ICANA) - The Majlis Research Center (MRC), the think-tank of the Iranian Parliament, has analyzed the recent parliamentary elections in Turkey where the ruling party, led by Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, won 326 seats (49.91 percent of the votes).NewsPage.aspx?NewsID=1757492011-08-20T22:30:04.0000000+04:30TEHRAN, July 15 (ICANA) – After meeting Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi, IAEA Director General Yukiya Amano said his agency "is not in a position" to be able to announce that Iran has full cooperation with the IAEA, saying the essential and critical issue is that Tehran "is not meeting its obligations."NewsPage.aspx?NewsID=1722512011-07-15T14:22:12.0000000+04:30TEHRAN, July 12 (ICANA) – Turkey has started a new era in its history. We have witnessed Turkey playing an important role in the Arab-Israeli conflict, in Iran’s nuclear dossier, and in the Lebanese case. Turkey’s foreign policy seems to have changed after the recent elections.NewsPage.aspx?NewsID=1719692011-07-12T14:01:00.0000000+04:30TEHRAN, July 12 (ICANA) – In the ninth decade of his life, Ahmad Jannati, the all-powerful overseer of elections in Iran and a regular speaker of Tehran Friday prayers, has kept up his morals and his optimism and remains committed to his trademark style of speech.NewsPage.aspx?NewsID=1719652011-07-12T13:44:33.0000000+04:30TEHRAN, July 11 (ICANA) – What follows is an interview conducted by Mosallas (Triangle) magazine with Kayhan Barzegar, Director of the Institute for Middle East Strategic Studies and a faculty member at the Science and Research Branch of the Islamic Azad University in Tehran.NewsPage.aspx?NewsID=1718222011-07-11T13:55:35.0000000+04:30TEHRAN, July 8 (ICANA) – Gaddafi's opponents are trying to capture the capital, Tripoli, while Libya's Army prevents any advancement towards his base, using more modern weaponry.NewsPage.aspx?NewsID=1715112011-07-08T21:36:14.0000000+04:30TEHRAN, July 8 (ICANA) – Amid media reports that Iran plans to segregate male and female students at its universities a senior Iranian lawmaker says gender-based separation of students in the universities does not make sense.NewsPage.aspx?NewsID=1714982011-07-08T13:14:58.0000000+04:30TEHRAN, July 5 (ICANA) – Former Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Velayati resigned from membership at a three-member committee appointed by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to broker unity among the Principalists for the parliamentary election of May 2012.NewsPage.aspx?NewsID=1712402011-07-05T11:21:15.0000000+04:30TEHRAN, July 2 (MNA) -- The United Nations Human Rights Council has recently designated former Maldives foreign minister Ahmed Shaheed as the Special Rapporteur to investigate the human rights situation in the Islamic Republic of Iran.NewsPage.aspx?NewsID=1709392011-07-02T22:20:06.0000000+04:30TEHRAN, June 24 (ICANA) – These days, walking in the streets of Tehran seems impossible even for a few moments. The hot and polluted weather forces everyone to take faster steps to reach a cool place. The political arena in Iran has become strangely similar to its weather: steamy, breathtaking, polluted and, in short, unbearable.NewsPage.aspx?NewsID=1697522011-06-24T18:01:01.0000000+04:30TEHRAN, June 24 (ICANA) – What follows is a commentary by Dr. Mostafa Kavakebian, member of National Security and Foreign Policy Commission of the Iranian Parliament (Majlis).NewsPage.aspx?NewsID=1697512011-06-24T17:53:04.0000000+04:30TEHRAN, June 21 (ICANA) – The rift between President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Iran's conservative-dominated parliament widened on Tuesday after deputies launched impeachment proceedings against his foreign minister.NewsPage.aspx?NewsID=1695342011-06-21T23:01:29.0000000+04:30TEHRAN, June 20 (ICANA) – Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s Justice and Development Party (AKP) won another landslide victory in the general election on June 12.NewsPage.aspx?NewsID=1693322011-06-20T22:08:28.0000000+04:30TEHRAN, June 20 (ICANA) – Turkey’s ruling party, led by Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, won 326 seats in the recent parliamentary election. This victory means that the party can continue its efforts to improve the Turkish economy and raise the country’s stature in the international arena and move forward with the process of demilitarizing Turkish politics.NewsPage.aspx?NewsID=1693272011-06-20T21:57:35.0000000+04:30TEHRAN, June 17 (ICANA) – One of the countries most jubilant about the AKP’s June 2011 parliamentary victory in Turkey is Iran. After the formal announcement of the polls results, Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was one of first leaders who extended his congratulations to Recep Tayyip Erdogan and President Gul.NewsPage.aspx?NewsID=1688412011-06-17T22:21:47.0000000+04:30TEHRAN, June 17 (ICANA) – Significant developments in previous years in the US-UK relationship have led some analysts to argue that there is no longer a "Special Relationship" between US and Britain.NewsPage.aspx?NewsID=1688402011-06-17T22:13:13.0000000+04:30TEHRAN, June 17 (ICANA) – You could call it poetic justice. Back in 1999, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, then an up-and-coming young mayor of Istanbul with populist appeal and Islamist leanings, was sentenced to 10 months in jail for reciting a century-old poem that the country's generals — the enforcers of Turkey's constitutionally mandated secularism — found offensive.NewsPage.aspx?NewsID=1688392011-06-17T21:30:04.0000000+04:30TEHRAN, June 11 (ICANA) – Afghanistan is an important member of the international community and its domestic circumstances deeply affects security and stability of the region.NewsPage.aspx?NewsID=1679782011-06-11T20:33:55.0000000+04:30TEHRAN, June 10 (ICANA) – Saudi Arabia and the Persian Gulf Cooperation Council countries’ historic failure at the 159th meeting of OPEC to increase the oil production, means that the new powerhouse in OPEC is Iran, oil analysts and energy experts stated.NewsPage.aspx?NewsID=1677692011-06-10T22:51:23.0000000+04:30TEHRAN, June 6 (ICANA) – In recent weeks, Saudi Arabian officials have expressed interest in inviting Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi to Riyadh for talks about recent developments in the Middle East and North Africa.NewsPage.aspx?NewsID=1672322011-06-06T21:16:13.0000000+04:30TEHRAN, June 3 (ICANA) – Various concerts of big powers have been regulating international relations throughout the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries. The concert included Russia, Great Britain, Austria, Prussia, and France during the 19th century.NewsPage.aspx?NewsID=1669272011-06-03T20:44:07.0000000+04:30TEHRAN, June 3 (ICANA) – Since the failure of a brief effort at engaging Iran, the Obama administration has pivoted to economic pressure, piling sanction after sanction on the Islamic Republic to try to persuade it to curb a program that could give it the capacity to make nuclear weapons.NewsPage.aspx?NewsID=1669262011-06-03T20:41:08.0000000+04:30TEHRAN, June 2 (ICANA) – It is clear that the United States and its Western European allies were caught completely unprepared for the revolutions in Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen, and Bahrain, as well as the upheavals throughout the Arab world.NewsPage.aspx?NewsID=1668822011-06-02T22:54:03.0000000+04:30TEHRAN, June 1 (ICANA) – Tension has been governing Iran’s relations with Saudi Arabia for a while now.NewsPage.aspx?NewsID=1668312011-06-01T23:50:02.0000000+04:30TEHRAN, June 1 (ICANA) – Up until a few months ago, the discussion over Iran’s nuclear program was a purely diplomatic and technical issue, and the negotiations were never influenced by the post-election incidents of 2009 or Iran’s human rights record.NewsPage.aspx?NewsID=1668282011-06-01T22:34:00.0000000+04:30TEHRAN, June 1 (ICANA) – The brief detention of an Iranian diplomat in Cairo and his departure from Egypt once again reminds one about the disapproval of the opponents of enhanced Tehran-Cairo ties over the resumption of political and economic relations between the two countries.NewsPage.aspx?NewsID=1668262011-06-01T22:21:48.0000000+04:30TEHRAN, May 31 (ICANA) – The brief detention of an Iranian diplomat in Cairo and his departure from Egypt once again reminds one about the disapproval of the opponents of enhanced Tehran-Cairo ties over the resumption of political and economic relations between the two countries.NewsPage.aspx?NewsID=1666102011-05-31T22:05:19.0000000+04:30TEHRAN, May 31 (ICANA) – “I am grateful to the Egyptian people, the Egyptian revolution, and the Egyptian government, because they opened our way of communication with the outside world.”NewsPage.aspx?NewsID=1666082011-05-31T21:35:11.0000000+04:30TEHRAN, May 31 (ICANA) – President Obama gave two speeches on May 19th and 21st regarding the Middle East. The first speech was delivered at the US State Department, and reviewed the developments and popular uprisings within the past six months. The second speech was delivered at the annual meeting of the American-Israeli Public Relations Committee.NewsPage.aspx?NewsID=1666072011-05-31T21:30:41.0000000+04:30TEHRAN, May 31 (ICANA) – Since the presidency of Vladimir Putin, Russia has developed a special interest in the Middle East and North Africa.NewsPage.aspx?NewsID=1666062011-05-31T21:25:50.0000000+04:30TEHRAN, May 29 (ICANA) – The nature of the popular uprising in Libya is quite different from the situation in other countries of the Middle East and North Africa where people power mass movements have challenged entrenched authoritarian governments.NewsPage.aspx?NewsID=1660532011-05-29T10:43:44.0000000+04:30TEHRAN, May 29 (ICANA) – Despite the popular uprising in Egypt, which resulted in the overthrow of Hosni Mubarak, unfortunately, there is still no clear roadmap for the reestablishment of Tehran-Cairo relations, and Egypt’s interim government has done almost nothing to restore diplomatic ties.NewsPage.aspx?NewsID=1660492011-05-29T10:35:16.0000000+04:30TEHRAN, May 28 (ICANA) - A well-known British think-tank said the US mistakes in its wars on Iraq and Afghanistan as well as the harsh military approach adopted by the Saudi and Bahraini dictators against peaceful protesters have increased Iran's might and power in the region.NewsPage.aspx?NewsID=1659722011-05-28T17:51:56.0000000+04:30TEHRAN, May 28 (ICANA) - Since the official establishment of Israel in 1948, there were always legal disputes regarding the Palestinian territories and this continued up until 1967, when Israel occupied parts of Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Egypt, and Palestine in the Six-Day War.NewsPage.aspx?NewsID=1658382011-05-28T11:15:42.0000000+04:30TEHRAN, May 26 (ICANA) – The contents of the recent letter of Iran’s chief nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili to his European interlocutor and EU’s foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton have turned out to be far from exciting to her.NewsPage.aspx?NewsID=1657062011-05-26T13:27:10.0000000+04:30TEHRAN, May 26 (ICANA) – Although President Barack Obama’s May 19 address on U.S. Middle East policy had a number of positive elements, overall it was a major disappointment. His speech served as yet another reminder that his administration’s approach to the region differs in several important ways from that of his immediate predecessor, but he failed to consistently assert principled U.S. support for human rights, democracy, or international law.NewsPage.aspx?NewsID=1657032011-05-26T13:22:34.0000000+04:30TEHRAN, May 25 (ICANA) – If you haven't listened to Benjamin Netanyahu's address to the US Congress on May 24, I'll tell you that you haven't lost something worthwhile. It was a farcical tirade devoid of any shred of sanity and full of hallucinatory and grotesque remarks.NewsPage.aspx?NewsID=1656832011-05-25T23:05:51.0000000+04:30TEHRAN, May 25 (ICANA) – U.S. President Barack Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron turned up the heat on Muammar Gaddafi in a joint appearance Wednesday, with the president saying that "ultimately" the Libyan leader would go.NewsPage.aspx?NewsID=1656822011-05-25T23:02:18.0000000+04:30TEHRAN, May 21 (ICANA) - The first Black US president gets behind a podium, delivers a key speech and declares himself, to be a follower of the "science cult."NewsPage.aspx?NewsID=1648482011-05-21T22:00:09.0000000+04:30TEHRAN, May 21 (ICANA) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrives in the United States today for a much anticipated visit. He will do a little fund-raising, will speak before Congress and at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) annual conference, and will meet with President Barack Obama.NewsPage.aspx?NewsID=1648452011-05-21T21:26:58.0000000+04:30TEHRAN, May 19 (ICANA) – The Obama administration, like most experts and Arab governments, were caught off guard by the upheaval and rapid fall of regimes in Tunisia and Egypt. Huffington PostNewsPage.aspx?NewsID=1645632011-05-19T22:59:35.0000000+04:30TEHRAN, May 19 (ICANA) – Budget cuts, CCTV's, bail-outs, unemployment and police brutality. Welcome to Europe! a continent that they themselves claim practicing free-market policies and being more democratic than most other countries.NewsPage.aspx?NewsID=1645532011-05-19T22:30:47.0000000+04:30TEHRAN, May 15 (ICANA) – It is now 63 years past the Zionists' first military offensive against the defenseless Palestinian people which led to the occupation of Palestine and 44 years past Israel's military occupation of the West Bank, Gaza Strip and East Beit-ul-Moqaddas (Jerusalem), and the indifferent world sees the massive violations of human rights and massacre of the defenseless people by the Zionist regime, and yet takes no action.NewsPage.aspx?NewsID=1639762011-05-15T20:06:08.0000000+04:30TEHRAN, May 15 (ICANA) – American moms will be getting generous gifts on Mother's Day, but lawmakers in the US, which alleges to be a fervent advocate of human rights, have proved that they don't care for women, specially mothers.NewsPage.aspx?NewsID=1639752011-05-15T20:02:06.0000000+04:30TEHRAN, May 15 (ICANA) – Friday's announcement of George Mitchell's resignation as the U.S. mediator in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict appears to be yet another sign of the disarray and failure of U.S. President Barack Obama's policy on the Middle East.NewsPage.aspx?NewsID=1638092011-05-15T17:54:32.0000000+04:30TEHRAN, May 15 (ICANA) – Announcement of Bin Laden’s death by President Obama on May 1, 2011, has been the most important news and security development in the world and countries or international and regional players which have remained indifferent to it are but a few.NewsPage.aspx?NewsID=1638352011-05-15T11:56:52.0000000+04:30TEHRAN, May 15 (ICANA) – Saudi King Abdullah's sudden and hasty decision to invite Jordan and Morocco to join the [Persian] Gulf Cooperation Council ([P]GCC) signals his extreme concern about the potential collapse of the Arab world's backward monarchical or semi-monarchical regimes.NewsPage.aspx?NewsID=1638122011-05-15T10:49:34.0000000+04:30TEHRAN, May 15 (ICANA) – As the 60-day Congressional deadline for terminating U.S. combat operations in Libya gets closer, the Obama administration and its legal advisors are said to be discussing loopholes that would provide them a legal platform to circumvent the War Powers Resolution of 1973.NewsPage.aspx?NewsID=1638112011-05-15T10:47:47.0000000+04:30TEHRAN, May 15 (ICANA) – Gov. Nathan Deal signed one of the nation's toughest immigration enforcement measures into law Friday, thrusting Georgia to the forefront of America’s thorny debate over illegal immigration and triggering immediate threats of court challenges.NewsPage.aspx?NewsID=1638102011-05-15T10:46:09.0000000+04:30TEHRAN, May 13 (ICANA) – Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi's Tripoli compound stayed relatively quiet for nearly two weeks after April 30, when a NATO missile destroyed one of the buildings, killing Qaddafi's son, Saif al-Arab, and several other family members.NewsPage.aspx?NewsID=1635832011-05-13T16:41:24.0000000+04:30