Ashton’s Iran talks produce nothing

Nuclear talks between Iran and six world powers in Istanbul last week ended without producing any concrete results.

EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton, who met Iran’s chief nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili, described the talks as “useful” although she was unable to report any substantive development.

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There’s delusion and 'delusion' when it comes to Iran

Ever since Iran's insistence on developing nuclear technology triggered the worlds biggest security nightmare, there have been a number of naive souls who have sought to contend that, on the contrary, we really have nothing to fear.

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Israel's warning over Syria chemical weapons

Israel's Deputy Foreign Minister , Zeev Elkin , has asked world leaders to “take control " of Syria's stocks of chemical weapons.

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US policy on Iran is not working

The failure this week of G5+1 negotiations with Iran in Almaty, Kazakhstan, raises the question of the viability of Western efforts to stop the Islamic Republic from getting a nuclear bomb.

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How Nazi Germany lost its nuclear edge

It was no accident that the atomic bomb and the Holocaust came about at the same time. When the Nazis came to power in Germany in 1933, neither was on anybody's agenda. Nor was the intention to systematically kill Jews - that would come later. Instead, the top item on the Nazi master-plan was to rid German culture of perceived pollution. Artists were to be asked to sign an oath of loyalty.

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