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.

Political, Legal Dilemma Facing IAEA

TEHRAN, 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."
7/15/2011 Report

Turkish Rush to Regional Authority

TEHRAN, 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.
7/12/2011 Report

The Bona Fide Principlist

TEHRAN, 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.
7/12/2011 Report

Iran-Saudi Relations: Time for Active Diplomacy

TEHRAN, 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.
7/11/2011 Report

Some Scenarios for Libya

TEHRAN, 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.
7/8/2011 Report

MP Rejects Plan for Gender-Based Separation of Students

TEHRAN, 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.
7/8/2011 Report

Velayati Quits 3-Member Committee

TEHRAN, 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.
7/5/2011 Report

Iran Opposed to Politicization of Human Rights Issue

TEHRAN, 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.
7/2/2011 Report

Egyptian Conservatism toward Iran

TEHRAN, 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).
6/24/2011 Report

Iran Parliament Mounts Pressure on Ahmadinejad

TEHRAN, 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.
6/21/2011 Report

Erdogan, a Success At Home and Abroad

TEHRAN, 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.
6/20/2011 Report

Turkey on the Path of Democracy

TEHRAN, 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.
6/20/2011 Report

Ultra-Importance of Turkish AKP’s Parliamentary Victory for Iran

TEHRAN, 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.
6/17/2011 Report

Arab Spring and the US-UK ’Special Relationship’

TEHRAN, 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.
6/17/2011 Report

Prime Minister Erdogan: Turkey's Man of the People

TEHRAN, 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.
6/17/2011 Report

Afghanistan after Long NATO Presence

TEHRAN, June 11 (ICANA) – Afghanistan is an important member of the international community and its domestic circumstances deeply affects security and stability of the region.
6/11/2011 Report

KSA Lost Dominance in OPEC, Iran New Powerhouse

TEHRAN, 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.
6/10/2011 Report

Conditions for Talks with Saudi Arabia

TEHRAN, 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.
6/6/2011 Report

Iran and Concert of Powers

TEHRAN, 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.
6/3/2011 Report

China Undercuts Sanctions on Iran

TEHRAN, 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.
6/3/2011 Report