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Iran news agency reports Obama, Iranian FM shook hands at UN

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — An Iranian news agency says President Barack Obama and Iran's foreign minister shook hands when they ran into one another on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly in New York. Tuesday's report by the official IRNA agency quotes an unnamed diplomatic

Russia

Obama: US willing to work with Russia, Iran on Syria crisis

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Straining for a solution to Syria's civil war, President Barack Obama on Monday said the United States is willing to work with Russia, as well as Iran to achieve a "managed transition" to remove Syrian leader Bashar Assad from power. Syria cannot "

terrorism

UN agency: Iran’s role in nuclear probe meets standards

VIENNA (AP) — The chief of the U.N. nuclear agency acknowledged Monday that samples used to determine whether Iran tried to develop a nuclear weapon were collected by the Iranians instead of agency experts, but insisted the probe stands up to strict agency standards. Such sampling of soil, air or

Barack Obama

Obama + Kerry = Neville Chamberlain

In September 1938, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain traveled to Munich to meet with Nazi leader Adolf Hitler. There, Chamberlain and other European nations signed the Munich Pact, forcing Czechoslovakia, which was not invited to the talks, to cede the Sudetenland to Germany. The Munich Pact was Britain's

Elizabeth Warren

Markey, Shaheen among top recipients of Iranian-American PAC money

Massachusetts U.S. Sen. Ed Markey, who supports the Obama administration's controversial nuclear deal with Iran, tops the list of candidates supported by "the Iran lobby," according to Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Horowitz Freedom Center. According to Shillman, the Iranian American Political

Democrats

The Iran deal: bad for Israel, bad for America, bad for democracy

With the announcement Wednesday by Senator Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.) that she will support the administration's nuclear agreement with Iran, President Obama now has enough votes to ensure that his unsound deal will go forward. But before he takes that victory lap, President Obama would be wise to consider

massachusetts politics

The Iran deal: Will congressional Democrats choose political power over principle?

As President Obama and Secretary of State John F. Kerry continue to insist this week that the Iran nuclear deal will make the world a safer place, Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatolla Ali Khamenei bragged on Twitter that the pact prevents the "Great Satan" from directly inspecting Iran'

Israel

After Iran deal, Obama struggles to gain Israel’s trust

Written by Josef Federman JERUSALEM (AP) — Seeking to sell his nuclear deal with Iran to a skeptical Israeli public, President Barack Obama has repeatedly declared his deep affection for the Jewish state. But the feelings do not appear to be mutual.