Iran-US Relations

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and US Secretary of State John Kerry have held fresh talks in Munich as a March deadline for a nuclear deal between Tehran and the P5+1 group approaches.

The glaring miscalculations of the Ahmadinejad government led to a decline in Iranian authority, says Sadegh Kharrazi, a former Iranian diplomat.

Kayhan, a principlist daily, has criticized government’s business performance, saying that removal of sanctions is not a magic bullet to fix Iran’s economy.

To mark Martin Luther King Day, the Supreme Leader has tweeted “Discrimination still prevails in the US.”

Alan Eyre says conclusion of a comprehensive deal at nuclear talks is a tough job. If it had been easy, a settlement would have been reached already.

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif is to hold talks in Geneva with his US counterpart John Kerry as Tehran and P5+1 are set to start a new round of nuclear negotiations.

Hadi Ajili, a professor of international relations, says US sanctions against Iran are viewed by some as being tactical and by others as strategic.

After the Geneva interim deal, all countries were deeply interested to have relations with Iran and this was too scary for the Americans, said Araghchi.

How a principlist daily reacts to President Obama’s Iran comments in an interview with NPR in late December.

Mehdi Motaharnia says President Obama’s recent comments on Iran shows he is a realistic, pragmatic, and visionary leader.

Iran’s Foreign Ministry says reopening of embassies in Tehran and Washington is not on the agenda of talks between Iran and the US.

The request by the US for a spy exchange has been submitted to Iran’s Judiciary, but Tehran has not responded to it yet.

Shamkhani rejected assumptions that regular meetings between Iranian and US diplomats during nuclear talks could lead to rapprochement between the two nations.

The secretary of Iran’s Human Rights Council says Iranians put their weight behind President Rouhani’s government regardless of the result of nuclear talks with P5+1.

Iran’s judiciary chief lashed out at the American legal system for exonerating the police officers who kill unarmed citizens.

Iran has described a US Senate report on the CIA’s torture program as “shocking," saying this shows violence, extremism, and secrecy are institutionalized in the US security system.

Kitty Piercy, the mayor of Eugene in the US state of Oregon, has sent a letter to Tehran Mayor, voicing happiness with mutual ties between two cultural institutes in the US and Iran.

Gholamali Haddad Adel says that the US will never get the red-carpet treatment in Iran, citing the loss of countless Iranian lives in their quest of freedom.

With tough 24 hours ahead of nuclear talks, Zarif and Kerry had a one-on-one meeting in Vienna.

Trade offices will reopen in Iran and the US in the future.

President Rouhani might be the last moderate president who rides in the vehicle of words; a chance which shouldn’t be blown.

Diplomats and economists who favor contacts between Iran and the US make their case.

Iran denies BBC reports that it is cooperating with the US in the fight against ISIL terrorists.

Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has said that establishing relations with the United States and holding talks with the country, except on certain issues, have no value.

A NEW poll has shown that the majority of Americans say the US should seek to work with Iran to help the Iraqi government beat back the ISIL militants.