A new poll in the United States shows that a slim majority of Americans believe history will judge the Iraq war as a failure rather than a success. According to results of a Gallup opinion poll released on Friday, 53 percent of Americans surveyed maintain that history will view the US invasion of Iraq and [...]

The Obama administration has lost support of Washington’s political elite for the war in Afghanistan, a senior political analyst has told Press TV. “The political support in the elite has essentially dried up and there is really little chance that it could be successful in the future” said historian and investigative journalist Gareth Porter in [...]

Head of the US State Department’s Iran desk, John Limbert, has resigned from his post due to disillusionment with the Obama administration’s “outreach” to Tehran. US President Barack Obama assigned the retired diplomat, who was one of the 52 Americans held captive in Tehran following the 1979 Revolution, to the Iran desk nine months ago. [...]

US and European officials reportedly fear that veto-wielding UN Security Council member China may rebel against the latest economic sanctions against Iran. “This is a significant challenge we face,” the Los Angeles Times quoted Stuart Levey, the Treasury Department’s top sanctions official, as saying at a Senate committee meeting last week. Levey added that the [...]

Reactions to the appointment of high-profile general Petraeus to run the US-led war in Afghanistan have varied from surprise to praise. While the US troops in Afghanistan expressed surprise for Gen. McChrystal’s forced resignation following the publication of comments by him and his staff critical of Obama administration officials, some members of congress have praised [...]

An opinion poll suggests that the international community should force the US to accept Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad proposal for dismantling its nukes. Nearly 53 percent of respondents to the Press TV poll held that the international community should step up pressure on the Obama administration to dismantle its nukes. Some 38 percent of the [...]

The Palestinian resistance movement, Hamas, says Israel is the sole obstacle to peace in the Middle East, calling on the Obama administration to withdraw support for Tel Aviv. Speaking to PBS television on Friday, Hamas political leader Khaled Meshaal said US President Barack Obama should deal with “the reality” of Israel being an impediment to [...]

British Foreign Secretary William Hague has publicly announced the country’s number of nuclear warheads at 225, with 160 already “operationally available.” Hague disclosed the figures in Britain’s first public accounting of its total nuclear arsenal in the House of Commons on Wednesday, after evaluating the situations where the UK may need to use atomic weapons, [...]

Syria’s president says that the Obama administration has failed to make any progress in the Middle East peace process as it has no “influence” in the region. The United States “has no influence because they don’t do anything for peace,” President Bashar al-Assad said in an interview with the Italian newspaper La Repubblica published on [...]

US Senators aim to pass new sanctions against Iran without exempting the so-called “cooperating countries” as demanded by the Obama administration. A conference committee, appointed by the House of Representatives, began discussing the two Iran sanctions bill last week. The administration of President Barack Obama wants the committee to include waivers in the bills for [...]

The Obama administration should address concerns raised after confessions made by Abdolmalek Rigi revealing Washington’s role in unrest inside Iran, the country’s Majlis speaker says. “Rigi’s confessions clearly disclose a close association between Jundallah, the US and NATO,” Iran’s Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani said. Abdolmalek Rigi, ringleader of the Pakistan-based terrorist group of Jundallah, was [...]

Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki has downplayed US and Israeli efforts to persuade regional countries to join a US-led campaign against Iran. Speaking at a joint press conference with his Turkish counterpart, Ahmet Davutoglu, on Tuesday, Mottaki deemphasized US-led concerted efforts to rally up support against Iran. Mottaki advised the Obama administration to learn from [...]

Iran’s Parliament Speaker says his country will ‘speed up’ its nuclear work if the Obama administration continues to threaten the country with a new round of sanctions. “Even if US President Barack Obama dares to repeat threats of tougher sanction against us as much as ten times, we will still be determined to pursue our [...]

Iran says the Obama administration has been pursuing his predecessor’s foreign policy approaches, insisting the US policies have not “changed” whatsoever. “The Obama administration’s policies have not made any changes, compared to that of the Bush administration,” said the Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman, Ramin Mehman-Parast, in a Monday press briefing in Tehran. Obama’s embrace of [...]

China calls on all sides of the Iranian nuclear dispute to step up diplomatic efforts amid Western threats of more sanctions against Tehran. “All parties should enhance diplomatic efforts and adhere to the right track of negotiations,” foreign ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu told reporters. The US says it will seek new sanctions against Tehran if [...]

Longtime US senator George McGovern, shocked by President Barack Obama’s new troop surge, has called the US war in Afghanistan another Vietnam. “I am astounded at the Obama administration’s decision to escalate the equally mistaken war in Afghanistan,” he wrote in an op-ed article in the Washington Post on Sunday. “And as I listen to [...]

Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki has taken a swipe at US President Barack Obama’s double standard polices regarding Iran’s nuclear program and its internal affairs. “The world is awash with US human rights violations in all forms and means, including the killing of innocent civilians in Afghanistan and Iraq, the continuance of the notorious Guantanamo prison [...]

Former chief of the UN nuclear agency has said that Iran’s nuclear issue can only be resolved through diplomacy. “Sanctions are not the solution,” Mohammed ElBaradei told the Austrian newspaper Kurier. He also called on Western countries to keep patience on the Iran issue, saying Tehran presents no threat to their security. “Some people want [...]

Russia has once again announced its opposition to a new round of sanctions against Iran over its nuclear activities. “The language of sanctions is not our language,” said Russia’s top foreign ministry spokesman Andrei Nesterenko on Thursday. The objections came as earlier Associated Press quoted unnamed US officials as saying that the Obama administration is [...]

Denouncing Barack Obama as “white power in black face,” hundreds of African-Americans have marched on the White House to protest against the policies of the US president. Over 200 people gathered for the first public demonstration by African-Americans against the Obama administration since his historic inauguration in January, and slammed the president for continuing what [...]