Posts Tagged: Hassan Rouhani
Iran’s Rouhani Declares Sanctions Regime on Verge of Complete Collapse
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani declared on Tuesday that the sanctions regime against his country was on the verge of complete collapse and that no country would...
Turkey’s Erdogan Meets With Iran’s Rouhani in Tehran
JNS.org - Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan met with his counterpart Iranian President Hassan Rouhani in Tehran on Tuesday in an effort to forge...
Opinion: Extremist Iranian Regime Has No Business Promoting ‘World Against Violence & Extremism’ Initiative at UN
In his inaugural speech before the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) last year, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani launched his "The World Against Violence and Extremism"...
Israel Says Iran Testing Nuclear Weapons, Obama Stresses Diplomacy
JNS.org - Israeli Intelligence Minister Yuval Steinitz said that Iran has used its Parchin military base for secret testing of nuclear weapons technology. Citing "highly...
Beware of Friendship With Iran
JNS.org - If you want the measure of how American policy has clumsily tailed the shifting system of alliances in the Middle East, look...
Iranian Power Struggle Reaches New Heights, Threats Exchanged
Rifts between clerical and elite circles in Iran have been intensifying over the past year. MEMRI has consistently reported on the power struggle characterizing the pragmatic...
Rouhani is No ‘Moderate’ on Human Rights
The Canadian Parliament has just concluded its third Iran Accountability Week, which sounded the alarm on the fourfold threat posed by the Iranian regime -...
WhatsApp Ban Shows Iran’s True Colors
This week, the Islamic Republic apparently banned the popular WhatsApp messaging application, which is owned by Facebook, reportedly because Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is an...
Misplaced Optimism Over Iran
JNS.org - When Hassan Rouhani was elected as Iran's president in June 2013, you could hear the sighs of relief in Washington, in...
Hezbollah Reportedly Faces Financial Crisis Over Iran Cutbacks and Syrian Civil War
JNS.org - Hezbollah is facing a growing financial crisis, according to new reports. A report in Asharq Al-Awsat, citing sources in Lebanon, said Hezbollah is facing...
Iran Responds to Rick Santorum Article Comparing Islamic Republic to Nazi Germany
Hamid Babaei, Iran's spokesman at the United Nations, used the phrase "patently absurd" to describe an article published by former U.S. Senator Rick Santorum and...
President Hassan Rouhani Admits Iran Intended to Develop Nuclear Weapons
JNS.org - In the first admission of its kind by Iran, the country's president, Hassan Rouhani, said over the weekend that the Islamic Republic...
The Coming Explosion of American Middle East Diplomacy
President Obama has three significant Middle East diplomatic initiatives underway, treating, respectively, Iran's nuclear weapons program; Syria's deadly, exhausting conflict; and the long-standing Israeli-Palestinian dispute....
Davos and the Hatred of Evil
At Davos, where I attended and spoke last week, there was endless talk of a deal between Israel and the Palestinians. According to Martin Indyk,...
