The phone call today between President Barack Obama and Iranian President Hassan Rouhani was the first direct contact between a U.S. president and his Iranian counterpart since Iranian revolutionaries stormed the U.S. embassy during Iran’s Islamic Revolution and seized fifty two American hostages. The New York Times notes that Rouhani,...

CNN struggled today to address accusations that it had mistranslated an interview between the station’s Christiane Amanpour and Iranian president Hassan Rouhani. Two key passages of the interview – condemning the “Holocaust” and declaring that “whatever criminality they [the Nazis] committed against the Jews, we condemn” – were cited as...

Analysts are piling on to the already expressed skepticism of U.S. lawmakers regarding optimistic claims being aired by Iranian officials. Newly inaugurated Iranian president Hassan Rouhani yesterday suggested that Iran is looking to resolve its dispute with the West within three to six months. Bloomberg columnist Jeffrey Goldberg had already on Tuesday aired...

Two months after anti-regime activists blasted the regime for “spreading lies and disinformation about the existence of political prisoners as they are simultaneously imprisoning hundreds for exercising their legal rights,” former Iranian President Mohammad Khatami is calling on Tehran to release all the country’s political prisonersKhatami published his comments on his official website following...

With many analysts and politicians crediting the international sanctions regime for bringing Iran to the negotiating table – and with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani focusing on sanctions in a speech that many panned as angry and combative – analyst attention is turning to the degree to which trade and financial...

A handshake between President Barack Obama and Iranian President Hassan Rouhani had the potential to be, according to TIME a handshake that would “shake the world.” Journalists and analysts suggested over the weekend and into Monday that a meeting between the two leaders had the potential to be a diplomatic...