When he spoke about issues that I cover, the nuclear weapons issues, what struck me is that the Iranian president was offering a reasonable basis for real negotiations.

The United States, which warned time and again to impose sanctions against Iran, has softened its tone on Iran's nuclear program, the Washington Post said on Wednesday.

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) qualified as outrageous and dishonest a report presented by a U.S. congressional intelligence committee on Iran’s nuclear program, according to diplomatic sources.

Once again the guardians of reaction and fundamentalism have created tragedy in their torture chambers, and the life of a freedom seeking student was sacrificed to protect the interests of the ruling reaction and despotism.

The pretext for war with Iran will solely be based on its plans to build a nuclear bomb and its sponsorship of terrorism. An attack against Iran because of its nuclear program is illegal according to Article 51 of the United Nations Charter.

The Tudeh Party of Iran warns against the rising tensions and the issue of Security Council resolution against Iran. We believe the world public opinion in its vast majority, and definitively, are against a new war and military intervention in the internal affairs of Iran.

In the face of mounting international isolation, eroding popular support and growing discontent even within the U.S. political and corporate elites, the Bush Administration has put the nation and the world on a collision course with Iran.

Condoleeza Rice, the US Secretary of State, who has been vocal in her opposition to Iran-Pakistan-India (IPI) pipeline project has close links with Chevron, the giant US oil company. Rice served on the board of directors of Chevron until she resigned to become Bush’s national security advisor in 2001.

WASHINGTON has a strange idea of how to emphasise its supposed commitment to a diplomatic solution of current concerns about Tehran's nuclear ambitions.

THE Iran issue is now reaching a flash point with a number of reports coming out of the Bush administration of a military strike and even a possible nuclear “bunker” bomb to “destroy” Iran’s nuclear capabilities.

THE story of subversion of the UNCTAD itself by GATT that later morphed into WTO, enveloping within itself subjects like investments, intellectual property rights and a plethora of non-trade issues, is the story of continuing poverty of nations and backwardness of their development.

It's wonderful that so many people are here as we deliver the petition to the White House. It would be nice if President Bush were here, but I understand he's run for the border in search of his lost 30 percent approval rating.

The current nuclear standoff is only a symptom of a greater struggle for control and dominance of the greater Middle East and Central Asian region.

U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice couldn't possibly have been more accurate when she accused Iran of "playing games" with the international community.

After the British Labour party‘s worst local election result since 1982, Tony Blair swiftly moved to reshuffle his cabinet which led to some a high profile ministers losing their posts.

We call upon the public opinion around the globe to defend the Iranian peoples’ struggle for democracy, human rights and social justice, we urge all the progressive and peace-loving forces to raise their protest voice against warmongering slogans.

"When it came to pinning the terrorist label on the Saddam Government," Dilip Hiro wrote in 2004 ("Secrets and Lies," p. 381), "all the Bush administration had to do was point a finger at the Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization..."

An AP article on Tuesday begins: "President Bush bats away talk of bombing Iran's disputed nuclear sites as 'wild speculation.' But plodding diplomacy hasn't borne fruit so far, and the administration is facing a hard truth: There may be no way to stop Iran from getting the bomb."

In the recent years and in the course of disputes about Iran’s nuclear policies, the Tudeh Party of Iran has always stressed that peaceful use of nuclear energy is the indisputable right of Iran and all other countries of the world.

A few months ago, I predicted that there would be no U.S. military strikes on Iran. While the Bush administration would desperately love to, given the balance of forces it is almost certain to be a strategic disaster.