Feb 09 Watch News Wrap: Iran Warns Against Rally in Support of Egypt Protests In other news Wednesday, the government of Iran warned organizers of a rally to support Egyptian protesters that their event is a political act that threatens to divide Iran. In northern Iraq, three car bombings killed at least seven people… Continue watching
Feb 03 Resource: 30 Years of Uprisings By Larisa Epatko The upheaval in Egypt is reminiscent of past protest movements and rebellions that have produced varying results. Some have brought down governments and transformed societies, others have dissipated or been crushed. We highlight some of them here. Continue reading
Jan 21 Watch News Wrap: At Nuclear Talks, Iran Says Uranium Enrichment Not Negotiable In other news Friday, representatives from six world powers met in Istanbul, Turkey, for talks with Iran about its nuclear program. Iranian delegates said they were off to a positive start but would not consider a freeze on uranium enrichment,… Continue watching
Dec 06 Watch Iranian Nuclear Program: Will U.S. Concede Anything in Talks? Iran struck a defiant note as talks began anew with the U.S. and five other countries over its nuclear ambitions. Margaret Warner talks with former State Department official Suzanne Maloney of the Brookings Institution about Iran's nuclear program and the… Continue watching
Dec 06 Watch Nuclear Talks Resume as Iran Makes 'Yellowcake' Announcement International talks on Iran's nuclear program resumed Monday shortly after Tehran claimed it had mastered the uranium-mining process to become "self sufficient" in creating nuclear fuel. Margaret Warner has an update. Continue watching
Dec 06 Iranian Nuclear Talks Resume, But Expectations Low By Larisa Epatko Delegates from Iran and the European Union, U.S., Russia, Britain, France and Germany met in Geneva Monday for their first nuclear talks in more than a year. Continue reading
Dec 02 Watch News Wrap: Iran Announces Arrests in Nuclear Scientist's Murder In other news Thursday, Iran said it has detained several people in connection with the car-bomb attacks on two of its nuclear scientists, one of whom died. Also, NATO announced the death of three more troops in Afghanistan during the… Continue watching
Oct 26 Watch Bags of Cash: Are Iran, Karzai Playing All Sides? Jim Lehrer gets perspectives on the Iranian payments to Afghanistan officials from former Afghan Interior Minister Ali Jalali and Steve Clemons of The New America Foundation and The Washington Note blog. Continue watching
Oct 26 Watch Iran Says Payments to Afghan Government for Reconstruction Iran said Tuesday that it is helping Afghanistan financially, but said it is helping with reconstruction, not trying to buy influence over the Karzai administration. Jim Lehrer has more. Continue watching
Oct 01 Watch Hunting an 'Industrial-Strength' Computer Virus Around the Globe Hari Sreenivasan has the latest on a powerful computer virus that could be targeting nuclear facilities in Iran. Continue watching