One day after British Foreign Secretary William Hague condemned the announcement of expansion in Iran’s nuclear program, the matter was a topic of conversation on Tuesday between Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon and British Minister for the Middle East Alistair…
The top diplomat in the UK on Monday condemned the Iranian decision to launch uranium enrichment operations for nuclear fuel in their underground Fordo facility near the city of Qom. In a statement published on the UK’s Foreign and Commonwealth…
The European Union member states are discussing possible restrictions on crude oil imports from Iran as sanctions over their nuclear program, with the plan to have an agreement in place by the end of the month. Iran was the fifth…
Ahead of the first face-to-face talks between the Israelis and the Palestinians in more than a year, a spokesman for Israel said they are entering the discussions with “great seriousness.” Meanwhile, the Palestinian chief negotiator told Ynet that Tuesday’s meetings…
Negotiators from the Palestinians and Israelis are set to meet directly with representatives from the Mideast Quartet on Tuesday, the first such interaction since the Palestinians suspended peace talks in the second half of 2010. Despite the significance of the…
The Palestinian application for full membership to the United Nations has apparently stalled for now, but new member nations joining the UN Security Council in January could alter the current vote balance on the matter. As part of the UN’s…