loves to stiff him, play him along and manipulate him. He's the world's celebrity ingenue, the slender naif perpetually undone by the recalcitrance of foreign leaders. ...more

November 25, 2009

NEW YORK (AP) — Federal prosecutors today took steps to seize four U.S. mosques and a Fifth Avenue skyscraper owned by a nonprofit Muslim organization long suspected of being secretly controlled by the Iranian government. ...more

November 12, 2009

President Barack Obama is sticking to his carefully tailored response to Iran's internal crisis as he continued to speak up for protesters' rights without making specific demands on Iran's hard-line leaders. U.S. officials say he is seeking to avoid having the demonstrators accused of being American stooges and is trying to preserve the possibility of negotiating directly with the Iranian government over its nuclear program, links to terrorism, Afghanistan and other issues. ...more

June 22, 2009

No year that saw a 778-point single-day stock market drop, the price of oil fluctuate by more than $100 a barrel and the death of Irvine Robbins - the inventor of Jamoca Almond Fudge ice cream - can be called good. But the election of Barack Obama as president made 2008 important. ...more

January 4, 2009

Militant Shiite leader Muqtada al-Sadr plans to make a series of short visits to Iraq starting within weeks, but has decided to make Iran his home base for years to come, a key aide says. ...more

August 23, 2008

Ahmad Batebi, an Iranian student protester, became a symbol of the Iranian freedom movement. ...more

July 23, 2008

U.S. and Iranian envoys had their highest-level diplomatic contact in 29 years Saturday, but the seven-nation gathering in Geneva on Iran's nuclear program was brought to a halt by Iran's refusal to say whether it will suspend uranium enrichment. ...more

July 20, 2008

Iran indicated Saturday that it has no plans to meet a key Western demand that it stop enriching uranium, a day after Tehran sent the European Union a response to an international offer of incentives for halting enrichment. ...more

July 6, 2008

Kudos To Fagan For Work On Bayport Park Re: Landscape Rules At Bayport by Tony Marrero ...more

June 12, 2008

The wife of a former FBI agent thought to be missing in Iran said Friday she is offering a $5,000 reward for information on her husband after more than a year of silence on his whereabouts. ...more

May 24, 2008