Bertrand Audoin
: From Paris, With Hope
Maria Miller
: Equal Marriage Will Preserve the Institution of Marriage
Damian Collins
: Freedom Cuts Both Ways in the Gay Marriage Debate
David Burrowes MP
: It Is Time to Support the British Traditions of Free Speech, Tolerance - And Marriage
Gabriel Byng
: The Shard Is the St Paul's Cathedral of Our Times
A retired businessman has lost his High Court battle against extradition to the US where he faces charges of conspiring to sell parts for Iranian miss...
An Iranian nuclear scientist has been killed by magnetic car bombs amid rising international tension over the country’s nuclear programme. Profe...
For many who during last year followed the developments of Camp Ashraf in Iraq, home to 3400 Iranian dissidents, the 31 December 2011 was deemed a horrific date.
Iran's enrichment of nuclear material at an underground facility represents a "further escalation" of its violation of UN resolutions, the United Stat...
The last days of 2011 ended with a good humanitarian news; in theory at least. The case in point was the fate of 3300 defenseless Iranian dissidents in Camp Ashraf, Iraq.
An American man has been sentenced to death in Iran for allegedly spying for the CIA, it has been reported. The semi-official Fars news agency is q...
The Navy's newest and most advanced ship is being sent to the Gulf for her first mission amid heightened tensions with Iran over threats by Tehran to ...
Rattling a sabre whenever Washington says so is the most humiliating idiocy. Do any of Britain's leaders really think further economic sanctions will stop Iran's nuclear programme? I cannot believe it.
If it is true that wars begin in the minds of men then Iran and Western powers have been at a state of war for some time. Martial rhetoric has been accompanied by steady military build-up and unprecedented diplomatic shut-down as each side throws away their steering wheel in this most dangerous of games of chicken.
Philip Hammond is to warn Iran that any attempt to block the Strait of Hormuz, a vital shipping lane, would be "illegal and unsuccessful" and would be...
Iran has warned the United States not to return an aircraft carrier to the Persian Gulf after Tehran conducted 10 days of military exercises conducted...
The first test has been met, and the 3400 Iranian dissidents at Camp Ashraf in Iraq have been saved from being massacred or be dispersed throughout Iraq and then be massacred. But many more tests lie ahead, and the world community will be watching.
Pro-military cheerleaders will claim that they fight for their country and keep ungrateful cretins like myself safe and secure. Not once do they dare grasp the notion that some servicemen may enjoy the addictive nature of warfare.
As the last US Forces pull out of Iraq before Christmas, this already troubled country sinks in even more violence and mayhem.
Jimmy Carter was praised for his "masterly" handling of the Iranian hostage crisis by Margaret Thatcher, transcripts of a phone conversation between t...
Twelve months ago, almost to the day, ministers and mandarins at the Foreign Office and MoD would have been watching the unfolding events in Tunisia w...
Iran has threatened to close the Strait of Hormuz, a vital route for the oil trade, if the West widens sanctions against the country amid an ongoing r...
It was a year of political ebb-and-flow as Brussels was whipped into a frantic storm. Policymakers were led by markets and markets became led by po...
Russia has seized radioactive material found in luggage bound for Iran, after radiation levels 20 times higher than the norm were detected in the depa...
The emergence of Islamic identity is just one of the potential threats to women's status in the wake of the Arab Spring according to Iranian-born Sussan Tahmasebi who is working to pass on the lessons learnt by the women's movement in her native Iran.
Britain vetoed a European Treaty - Ho, ho, ho.
It is not enough simply not to hate an enemy. It is not enough to pray for 'them'. 'Love your enemies' and 'Love your neighbour' make fine slogans, but they mean nothing if we don't act upon them. And it is impossible to love someone you are trying to kill or allowing to starve.
So here's the scenario. A sovereign nation in the Middle East is accused of developing weapons of mass destruction. The dictatorial leader is portrayed as psychotic and deranged across the western media, seemingly capable of anything.
It was after Iraq's elections in February 2009 when Nouri al- Maliki visited Tehran to thank the head of Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, for his s...
Howard Dean, the outspoken former Governor of Vermont, recently observed in a speech in Brussels that when President Obama was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2009, he was quite modest about it and said that he hoped to earn it one day.
