TEHRAN, 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).
TEHRAN, 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.
TEHRAN, 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.

American Misreading of Iran

TEHRAN, 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.
6/2/2011 Report

Unity among Iran, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, and Egypt?

TEHRAN, June 1 (ICANA) – Tension has been governing Iran’s relations with Saudi Arabia for a while now.
6/1/2011 Report

New Aspects in Iran’s Nuclear Case

TEHRAN, 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.
6/1/2011 Report

Egypt and Its Ties with Iran

TEHRAN, 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.
6/1/2011 Report

Egypt and Its Ties with Iran

TEHRAN, 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.
5/31/2011 Report

Reopening Rafah, Arab Spring Token

TEHRAN, 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.”
5/31/2011 Report

Two Speeches and Three Challenges: Obama and the Middle East

TEHRAN, 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.
5/31/2011 Report

Russia’s Failed Middle Eastern Bid

TEHRAN, May 31 (ICANA) – Since the presidency of Vladimir Putin, Russia has developed a special interest in the Middle East and North Africa.
5/31/2011 Report

Gaddafi Is a Goner

TEHRAN, 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.
5/29/2011 Report

Ties with Iran on Back Burner Due to Egypt’s Domestic Problems

TEHRAN, 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.
5/29/2011 Report

British Think-Tank: Saudi, US Blunders Increasing Iran's Might, Clout

TEHRAN, 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.
5/28/2011 Report

Is There Any Hope for Peace in the Mideast?

TEHRAN, 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.
5/28/2011 Report

Prospects of Further Nuclear Talks with Iran

TEHRAN, 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.
5/26/2011 Report

Obama's Mideast Speech: Two Steps Back, One Step Forward

TEHRAN, 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.
5/26/2011 Report

Farcical Hallucinations of Netanyahu

TEHRAN, 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.
5/25/2011 Report

Obama, Cameron: No Letup in Pressure on Gaddafi

TEHRAN, 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.
5/25/2011 Report

Heil Sturmbannführer Obama

TEHRAN, 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."
5/21/2011 Report

Some Questions for Bibi

TEHRAN, 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.
5/21/2011 Report

Quick Facts: US Double Standards Haunt Obama

TEHRAN, 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 Post
5/19/2011 Report

Welcome to Europe!

TEHRAN, 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.
5/19/2011 Report

Israeli Occupation of Palestine Continues Amid Int'l Inaction

TEHRAN, 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.
5/15/2011 Report

US Lawmakers Show Growing Anti-Feministic Attitudes

TEHRAN, 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.
5/15/2011 Report

Quick Facts: US Mideast Envoy George Mitchell

TEHRAN, 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.
5/15/2011 Report

Bin Laden and Strategic Culture of the United States

TEHRAN, 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.
5/15/2011 Report

Saudi Bid to Save Monarchies

TEHRAN, 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.
5/15/2011 Report