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WASHINGTON, May 7, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- On May 23, the United States and its international partners will sit down in Baghdad for another round of talks with Iran. While a diplomatic deal remains the best hope for a peaceful resolution to the international standoff over Iran's nuclear program, experts disagree over what terms the United States should accept and what can be expected from Iran. On Monday, May 14, 2012, the Bipartisan Policy Center's (BPC) Foreign Policy...

An Iranian news agency reported on Monday that the Iranian oil ministry's computer network came under cyber attack, according to reports by the Associated Press (AP) and Reuters. Mehr reported that the Islamic Republic has disconnected the country's main oil export terminal from the Internet as a preventative measure. The cyberattack affected some data, according to the report, but the ministry has backed it up.  It also said that oil operations were not affected. Hamdollah...

President Barack Obama announced sanctions against Iran, Syria and "digital guns for hire" who use technology to carry out human rights abuses. He announced the new sanctions during a speech at the U.S. Holocaust Museum, asking U.S. intelligence groups to include assessments of the likelihood of mass killings in its coordinated reports. "National sovereignty is never a license to slaughter your people," he said during his speech. "These technologies should be in place to empower...

PARIS, April 19, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- In a letter to the U.S. Secretary of State on her visit to Paris to attend the international conference on the Syrian crisis, the French Committee for a Democratic Iran (CFID) urged Secretary Hillary Clinton to intervene personally to ensure the rights of Iranian dissidents in Camp Ashraf and Camp Liberty in Iraq, who are members of the main Iranian resistance movement, the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK). The...

Brett Smith for RedOrbit.com The Iranian government will step up its censorship efforts this summer with a new national intranet that restricts access to services like Google, Yahoo!, and Hotmail, according to an official statement released this week by Reza Taghipour, the Iranian minister for Information and Communications Technology Iran’s plan for a “clean internet” will cut off millions of its citizens from the rest of the Web by mandating that “(a)ll Internet Service...

NEW YORK, April 10, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- As the United States has removed itself from one extended military conflict in the Middle East -- in Iraq -- another one possibly looms on the horizon, brought on by Iran's suspected nuclear program and, among other things, Israel's desire to abolish it. The U.S. has a tricky and nuanced road to navigate, made only more complicated by Israel's role, the rising price of oil, and the presidential election in November. When Americans were...

LONDON, April 6, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- On the anniversary of the April 8, massacre of the residents of Camp Ashraf, International Solidarity for a Democratic Change in Iran [http://www.isdciran.org ] (ISDCI [http://www.isdciran.org ]) calls on UN, US and EU to take necessary steps to guarantee safety and basic human rights of the residents. ISDCI also calls on US Secretary Clinton to, firstly, uphold her last year's December 25 commitment for a "robust Monitoring" by the U.S....

WASHINGTON, April 5, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- In a letter to the Director of Global News for the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), a copy of which was provided to the US Committee for Camp Ashraf Residents (USCCAR), two highly-decorated former senior US military commanders in Iraq have expressed their concerns about a highly politically-motivated and questionable report the BBC radio is preparing about residents of Camp Ashraf in Iraq and the People's Mojahedin of Iran...

RIVERDALE, N.Y., April 4, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Will Israel attack Iran? The question that is on the minds of politicians, military leaders and people around the world will be elucidated when Dr. Ronen Bergman and Riverdale's Rabbi Irving Greenberg meet to discuss this critical issue on May 1, 2012 at the Riverdale YM-YWHA (The Riverdale Y). Dr. Bergman is a senior political and military analyst for Yedioth Aharonoth, Israel's largest circulated daily newspaper, and a...

NEW YORK, April 4, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- AJC is outraged by German author Gunter Grass' latest published assault on Israel. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20100816/AJCLOGO) In his poem, "What Must Be Said," published today in a leading German newspaper, Suddeutsche Zeitung, the recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature depicts Israeli policies as a threat to world peace, and specifically warns that Israel "could wipe out the Iranian people" with a "first...