Diplomats say Iran has withdrawn a bid for a seat on the UN nuclear watchdog's policy-setting board after failing to win consensus backing from a regional group of Middle East and South Asian countries.
Speaking at the United Nations General Assembly, he urged countries that have pledged support for the Palestinians to meet their obligations of both "political and financial support" and to "stop trying to tear Israel down."
The family of dissident Iranian cleric Ayatollah Hossein Kazemeyni Boroujerdi has written to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon asking him to address human rights violations in Iran at the 65th session of the UN General Assembly that opens today.
U.S. President Barack Obama will use a speech to the United Nations General Assembly today to make a plea for international support for the Middle East peace process.
The United States says it "strongly" welcomes Russia's decision to ban Russian supplies of air-defense missiles and other arms to Iran.
The six world powers looking to curb Iran's controversial nuclear program say they remain determined to seek a negotiated solution to the standoff.
Iran's President Mahmud Ahmadinejad has adopted the old Cold War approach in charging the West with hypocrisy for expressing outrage over the fate of an Iranian woman sentenced to death by stoning while staying silent about an American woman on death row in Virginia.
The chief of Russia's general staff says Russia has dropped plans to supply Iran with S-300 missiles because they are subject to international sanctions.
Iranian Culture Minister Mohammad Hosseini has announced plans to create a new five-person board that will approve the content of all books prior to publication.
The blast occurred during an annual parade to mark the Iran-Iraq War in Mahabad, a city with a predominantly Kurdish population in West Azerbaijan Province, which borders Iraq and Turkey.
The seventh visit of Iran's president to New York is drawing its share of controversy, but the overall public perception seems to be more subdued compared to his previous appearances before the UN General Assembly.
The BRIC nations want the United Nations to rebuke countries that resort to unilateral sanctions not approved by the UN Security Council, Brazilian Foreign Minister Celso Amorim said.
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