Iran’s chief nuclear negotiator Said Jalili gives a press conference on April 14, 2012 as Iran and six world powers open talks on Tehran‘s disputed nuclear program in Istanbul, Bulent Kilic / AFP / Getty Images Why Netanyahu’s Afraid of Diplomacy by Trita Parsi Apr 17, 2012 2:00 PM EDT Netanyahu and Obama [...]
Iran‘s chief nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili has told Russian and Chinese diplomats he has come prepared for substantive negotiation. Photograph: Osman Orsal/Reuters The first international negotiations on Iran‘s nuclear programme for 15 months will get under way on Saturday in Istanbul amid increasing signs that Tehran is prepared to trade limits on its enrichment of uranium [...]
Demonstrators protest against Syria‘s President Bashar al-Assad. Photograph: Handout/REUTERS Gulf states warned against arming Syria rebels Saudi Arabia and Qatar urged not to supply weapons to rebels for fear of undermining UN efforts to end crisis Ian Black and Julian Borger guardian.co.uk, Thursday 5 April 2012 19.18 BST Article history Saudi Arabia and Qatar are being urged not to supply weapons [...]
Restaurants in Istanbul are translating their menus into Arabic to entice Arab diners. Photograph: Atlantide Phototravel/Corbis In the Turkish restaurants around Taksim Square in Istanbul, the menus are getting a new look. It’s not so much the food that is changing but the languages, as more and more restaurateurs choose to include Arabic. Erkan Ali Karabulut, manager of [...]
The US administration has planned on a full pullout from Afghanistan by 2014 – with some exceptions [EPA] WASHINGTON DC – It is one of the hallmarks of US diplomacy, discerned over many years of close observation, that when problems become seriously intractable, when there is no clear or acceptable solution in prospect, when the [...]
You can watch the video at: http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2011/08/2011821161511993134.html President Bashar al-Assad has warned against foreign military intervention in his country, in an appearance on Syrian television. In an interview broadcast live on Sunday, Assad said: “Any action against Syria will have greater consequences [on those who carry it out], greater than they can tolerate”. “First, because [...]
