Afghan President Hamid Karzai has said that anti-corruption units should be allowed to operate “free from foreign interference or political influence.” Karzai made the remarks in Kabul on Friday during a meeting with visiting US Senator John Kerry. “The president and I agreed that the work of these entities must be allowed to continue free [...]

A subcommittee of the Iranian Parliament (Majlis) has rejected US Senator John Kerry’s request to visit Tehran, an MP says. “Members of the Iranian parliament’s Foreign Relations Committee (a subcommittee of the Majlis National Security and Foreign Policy Committee) voiced opposition to the request after studying the issue,” MP Hossein Ebrahimi told the Fars news [...]

A senior Iranian lawmaker says Tehran does not take rumors of US Senator John Kerry’s proposed visit to Tehran seriously. The American bimonthly, Foreign Policy magazine on Friday reported that Kerry had “offered” to travel to the Iranian capital to broker “a last-ditch agreement” with Tehran over its nuclear program. “American senators have time and [...]