Iran's new parliament will be largely dominated by conservative supporters of supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, according to results from last week's election.
President Barack Obama and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu may not have bridged their differences on how to deal with Iran, but each managed to give the other a measure of reassurance.
Israel's prime minister warns of the dangers of a nuclear Iran, which he says will provide a 'nuclear umbrella' to terrorists; in earlier meeting, New York Times reports Obama said talk of war is increasing oil prices.
Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday winds up a high-profile US visit focused on Iran's nuclear threat after warning that his country would not live in the ''shadow of annihilation'' and telling President Barack Obama that Israel must remain the ''master of its fate'' in a firm defense of his right to mount a unilateral strike against Tehran.
President Barack Obama and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu may not have bridged their differences on how to deal with Iran, but each managed to give the other a measure of reassurance.
As if their own fraught history and the prospect of a nuclear Iran weren’t enough, Barack Obama and Benjamin Netanyahu will bring to their meeting on Monday each nation’s vexing and at times self-contradictory relationship with war.
UN nuclear watchdog chief says his agency is unable to provide credible assurance to conclude that 'all nuclear material in Iran is in peaceful activities.'
President Obama said it was still possible to resolve Iran's suspected bid for a nuclear weapon through diplomacy, but added that a military option was still on the table and that containment was not an option.
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper said Canada wants to see a ''peaceful resolution'' to the crisis over Iran's nuclear program but he added that he recognizes Israel's right to defend itself through military action.
