US Secretary of State John Kerry has denounced a Republican letter to Iran as an unprecedented and calculated attempt to interfere with nuclear talks underway between Tehran and the P5+1 group, saying he will not apologize for the letter when negotiations resume on Monday morning. A group of 47 Republican senators ignored protocol and sent an open ...

[caption id="attachment_141124" align="alignright" width="180"] U.S. President Barack Obama answers a question after his end of the year press conference in the briefing room of the White House in Washington, December 19, 2014.CREDIT: REUTERS/LARRY DOWNING[/caption] WASHINGTON (AP) -- Republicans critical of U.S.-Iran nuclear talks contend President ...

[caption id="attachment_115926" align="alignright" width="158"] President Barack Obama talks with House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Sept. 9, 2014. The president met with Congressional leaders to discuss options for combating the Islamic State. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)[/caption] A bipartisan ...

[caption id="attachment_54052" align="alignright" width="187"] United Nations Security Council in session (file photo)[/caption] It isnowclearthat any deal with Iran will by its terms be a non-binding agreement. That means the United States will have no international law obligation to comply with the agreement, considered in isolation, and that ...

[caption id="attachment_153528" align="alignright" width="210"] Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu listens as U.S. President Barack Obama (R) speaks, during their meeting in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington October 1, 2014.[/caption] In a letter to Iran this week, nearly four dozen Republican senators showcased the limitations ...

[caption id="attachment_153835" align="alignright" width="208"] The Iranian and US delegations hold a second round of nuclear negotiations in the Swiss city of Montreux on February 23, 2015[/caption] But Ron Johnson of Wisconsin maintains thatany nuclear deal should still go before Congress for approval. The letter 47 Republicans sent earlier ...

[caption id="attachment_154701" align="alignright" width="158"] FILE - In this Nov. 4, 2014 file photo, then-Sen.-elect Tom Cotton, R-Ark. waves at his election watch party in North Little Rock, Ark., after defeating incumbent Sen. Mark Pryor[/caption] European allies are joining the Obama administration in criticizing Republican congressional interjection ...

[caption id="attachment_148397" align="alignright" width="193"] US State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki[/caption] US State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki has said that the United Nations Security Council would endorse any final nuclear agreement between Iran and the P5+1 group. "We would anticipate that, if we're able to reach a joint comprehensive ...

[caption id="attachment_137649" align="alignright" width="164"] US State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki[/caption] (Reuters) - The U.S. State Department fought back on Friday against the latest Republican criticism of theIrannuclear talks, saying any moves to lift U.N. sanctions if there was a deal would not limit U.S. options for future action ...

[caption id="attachment_146991" align="alignright" width="225"] (AP Photo/Mandel Ngan, Pool)[/caption] Washington (AFP) - US President Barack Obama said he was "embarrassed" for Republicans who signed a controversial letter warning Iran's leaders about reaching a nuclear deal with the White House. "I am embarrassed for them," Obama said in an ...

[caption id="attachment_79648" align="alignright" width="248"] Germany'sforeign ministry spokeswoman Sawsan Chebli[/caption] Berlin, Mar 13, IRNA -- A German foreign ministry spokeswoman warned against ongoing Israeli and US hardline efforts to sabotage a likely nuclear agreement between Iran and six world powers (US, Russia, China, France, Britain ...

[caption id="attachment_155194" align="alignright" width="238"] Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei addresses the members of Iran's Assembly of Experts, Tehran, March 12, 2015.[/caption] TEHRAN Irans highest leader issued a sharp response Thursday to a letter to the countrys leadership by Republican lawmakers, deriding ...

[caption id="attachment_155321" align="alignright" width="199"] Iranian Jewish MP Siamak Moreh Sedgh (L) and schoolboys read prayers during a demonstration in front of the United Nations building in Tehran, Nov. 19, 2013. (photo by BEHROUZ MEHRI/AFP/Getty Images)[/caption] In a phone interviewwith Al-Monitor,Siamak Moreh Sedgh,the onlyJewish representative ...

[caption id="attachment_155308" align="alignright" width="201"] US Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (left), Senator Ted Cruz (center) and Senator John Cornyn[/caption] A petition to the White House demanding treason charges against 47 Republican senators who attempted to sabotage US President Barack Obama's efforts to reach a nuclear accord ...

[caption id="attachment_155298" align="alignright" width="236"] Former Iranian nuclear negotiator Sirous Nasseri[/caption] Tehran, March 12, IRNA -- A nuclear agreement between Iran the major powers would include the removal of all sanctions imposed by the UN Security Council, says former Iranian nuclear negotiator Sirous Nasseri. Therefore, ...

[caption id="attachment_155290" align="alignright" width="226"] German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier speaks while meeting with Secretary of State John Kerry at the State Department in Washington, Wednesday, March 11, 2015. (AP Photo/Molly Riley)[/caption] WASHINGTON (AP) -- European diplomats involved in nuclear negotiations with Iran ...

Daily look at Irans late-breaking news and upcoming events:   Leader of Islamic Revolution: US senators letter reveals collapse of US political ethics Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has slammed US senators letter against a possible deal over Irans nuclear program saying it reveals the collapse of US political ...

[caption id="attachment_147051" align="alignright" width="229"] Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (AFP)[/caption] TEHRAN (FNA)- Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei played down the recent letter by 47 US senators who threatened to abort or change any possible nuclear deal between the US administration ...

[caption id="attachment_153050" align="alignright" width="199"] Secretary of State John Kerry testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Feb. 25, 2015, before the House Appropriations subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations and Related Agencies. Kerry has implored skeptical senators not to criticize nuclear negotiations with Iran before ...

[caption id="attachment_146991" align="alignright" width="228"] (AP Photo/Mandel Ngan, Pool)[/caption] The Republicans much-maligned open letter to Tehran has forced the White House to admit an uncomfortable truth: The deal might not outlast the Obama presidency. Beyond the theatrics of the open letter that 47 Republican senators sent to Iran,...