News Archive - 16 June 2013

>DUBAI (Reuters) - Iranian president-elect Hassan Rohani, who won a landslide victory promising better relations abroad and more freedom at home, on Sunday paid his first visit since the vote to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who will ultimately decide the pace of any change. Rohani, a mid-ranking Shi'ite cleric,...

>"The international community must not give in to wishful thinking or temptation and loosen the pressure on Iran for it to stop its nuclear program," Netanyahu told his cabinet, according to a statement released by the Prime Minister's Office.Netanyahu said it was Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and...

>DUBAI (Reuters) - Iranians celebrated into Sunday after moderate Hassan Rohani was elected president in a popular repudiation of conservative hardliners, and he pledged a new tone of respect in Tehran's international affairs after years of increasing antagonism. Rohani, a Shi'ite cleric and former chief nuclear negotiator with Western powers,...

>* The United States and Europe plan to push for nuclear talks with Iran following the surprise victory of centrist Hassan Rohani in presidential elections.()* Airbus is on track to more than double its profit margin by 2015 through greater efficiency and restructured management, said Chief Executive Fabrice Bregier.

>Ties between world No. 1 oil exporter Saudi Arabia and regional competitor Iran are tense over many issues, notably the war in Syria, where they back rival combatants, political unrest in Bahrain, and a dispute over Iran's pursuit of nuclear power.The official Saudi Press Agency reported late on Sunday...

Millions of Iranians poured into the streets Saturday to celebrate the victory of presidential candidate Hassan Rouhani. Huge crowds snarled traffic in the capital, Tehran, demanding the release of hundreds of political prisoners arrested during protests over sham elections four years ago. "My dead brother and sister, I got your...

>* Prices likely to trade inside "zones of resistance"* Impact of Iran presidential elections still unclear (Updates prices)By Luke PachymuthuSINGAPORE, June 17 (Reuters) - Brent crude futures traded below $106 a barrel on Monday, as worries over bulging U.S. inventories and soft global demand forecasts overshadowed supply concerns tied...

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel on Sunday warned the international community against easing sanctions on Iran following the election of a reformist-backed president, saying the country's nuclear efforts remain firmly in the hands of Iran's extremist ruling clerics.

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>WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - The surprise win by Iran's Hassan Rohani in weekend presidential elections offers a possible opening for resolving a dispute with the United States over Tehran's nuclear ambitions, U.S. officials and analysts said on Sunday. However they cautioned that the moderate cleric does not wield the...

Latest VideoJune 16th, 2013     IranIranian TV : Emir of Qatar asked Arab countries to ignore his prime minister ! Iranian TV report that Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani Emir of Qatar have asked Arab countries to cut ties with prime minister and minister of foreign affairs Hamad bin Jassim...

Latest VideoJune 16th, 2013     Love music videos aired on Iranian television Sample of music video with love themes ,  aired after election of new president Hasan Rohani on Sunday 16 June on state run  television .  ...

Latest VideoJune 16th, 2013     Iranian football national team prepare itself to face WC qualification game with South Korea The Iranian national football team lead by Carlos Quieroz exercise in South Korea and prepare itself to face South Korean important game of World Cup qualification on Tuesday 18 June .

>AMMAN, June 16 (Reuters) - Rebel brigades fought Hezbollah-backed forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad in and around Syria's commercial hub of Aleppo on Sunday, trying to claw back territory lost to an assault that threatens the opposition's grip on the city, activists said. Rebel brigades poured into Aleppo last...

>Speaking on CBS's "Face the Nation," Denis McDonough McDonough said: "If he (Rohani) is interested in, as he has said in his campaign, mending Iran's relations with the rest of the world, there is an opportunity to do that."(Reporting by Jackie Frank; Editing by David Brunnstrom) World Tweet this...

>KUWAIT (Reuters) - Kuwait's top court ordered the dissolution of parliament on Sunday and called for fresh elections, a ruling likely to herald fresh political volatility in the U.S.-allied Gulf Arab state. The Constitutional Court made its ruling after throwing out opposition challenges to changes to the electoral...

Latest VideoJune 16th, 2013     University Professor : God was involved in electing Hasan Rohani not his publicity campaign ! University professor Heshmatollah Ghanbari was the first to began flattering new president Hasan Rohani on Iranian TV with his nonsense that it was god who helped Hasan Rohani to be elected...

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Just weeks after Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's election victory in 2005, Iran's top nuclear negotiator Hasan Rowhani stepped down from the post after quarrelsome meetings with the new president.

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran's stock exchange on Sunday climbed for the second continuous day following the surprise election of a reformist-backed president.

>BASRA, Iraq (Reuters) - Attacks across Iraq targeting mainly Shi'ite Muslims killed at least 30 people on Sunday, police and medics said, intensifying fears of a descent into all-out sectarian war. Ten years after the U.S.-led invasion that toppled Sunni leader Saddam Hussein, a stable power-sharing compromise between...