Tag: Iran

• Monday, August 24th 2015 - 11:05 UTC

  UK reopens embassy in Teheran and Iran in London; initially at chargé d'affairs level

  

  The British embassy in Iran has reopened, nearly four years after it was closed. Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond attended a ceremony on Sunday in Teheran with Iranian diplomats to mark the reopening while Iran has also reopened its embassy in London.

• Thursday, July 30th 2015 - 07:23 UTC

  Argentina asks if Iran nuke-deal includes delisting Iranian wanted in major bomb attack in Buenos Aires

  

  Argentina's foreign minister is asking U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and European Union Foreign Affairs representative, Federica Mogherini to clarify whether Washington's nuclear deal with Iran includes removing from Interpol's list an Iranian wanted in a major bomb attack in Buenos Aires that took place in 1994 and remains unsolved.

• Thursday, May 21st 2015 - 06:56 UTC

  Iranian officers' interviews, allegedly linked to AMIA bombing, attract world media attention

  

  The interviews with former Iranian officials accused of the 1994 AMIA bombing of a Jewish organization in downtown Buenos Aires aired this week by Argentine news channel C5N were covered by a number of international media outlets.

• Wednesday, May 20th 2015 - 04:31 UTC

  Former Iranian officials deny any involvement in the 1994 AMIA attack in Buenos Aires

  

  Former Iranian foreign minister Alí Akbar Velayati accused Argentina of being under the influence of Zionism and the United States over the investigation into the 1994 bombing of the AMIA Jewish community centre in Buenos Aires which killed 85 and injured 300 and is considered the worst terrorist attack suffered by the country.

• Tuesday, March 31st 2015 - 05:49 UTC

  Maximo Kirchner accused of having secret accounts in the US and Cayman Islands

  

  Maximo Kirchner, son of Argentine president Cristina Fernandez and former Defense and Security Minister Nilda Garre figure with secret bank accounts, stashed with millions of dollars, in the United States and in the Cayman Islands, according to reports in Buenos Aires daily Clarin and Brazil's Veja, the weekly magazine with the largest circulation in that country.

• Thursday, March 26th 2015 - 09:30 UTC

  Timerman rejects Iran cover-up claims and again supports the MoU signed with Teheran

  

  Argentina's Foreign Minister Hector Timerman has rejected the cover-up accusations made by Alberto Nisman before the AMIA special prosecutor was found dead in his Buenos Aires City apartment more than two months ago under unclear circumstances.

• Monday, March 16th 2015 - 10:39 UTC

  Israel newspaper questions Nisman’s accusations against Cristina Fernandez and Timerman

  

  Israeli newspaper Haaretz has published an article questioning the criminal accusation filed by late AMIA prosecutor Alberto Nisman against Argentine President Cristina Fernández and Foreign minister Hector Timerman, while asserting that the official's handling of the case was far from exemplary.

• Friday, March 6th 2015 - 08:08 UTC

  “Nisman did not commit suicide, Nisman was murdered” concludes independent forensic report

  

  The ex-wife of late special prosecutor Alberto Nisman, who was found fatally shot in his Buenos Aires apartment on Jan. 18, hours before he was supposed to brief Argentina's Congress about his accusations against President Cristina Fernandez, said Thursday that an independent forensic report shows that he was murdered.

• Wednesday, February 18th 2015 - 04:40 UTC

  Argentina addresses letters to the US and Israel regarding Iran and AMIA

  

  Foreign Minister Hector Timerman held a press conference to inform Argentina was addressing a letter to both US Secretary of State John Kerry and Foreign Minister of Israel Avigdor Lieberman reaffirming Argentina’s “peaceful” stance in the resolution of conflicts, reiterating also its calls to have the AMIA case negotiations “included” in current talks between Washington and Tehran.

• Tuesday, January 27th 2015 - 06:50 UTC

  Oil Prices Changing The Face Of Global Geopolitics

  

  In a documentary that aired recently on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's popular The Fifth Estate program, an allegory of Vladimir Putin was presented. The wily Russian president was described growing up in a shabby St. Petersburg apartment, where he would often corner rats.