Annan snubbed, ignored in Iran meeting
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The U.N. chief got little satisfaction Sunday at the close of his trip to Tehran, snubbed by Iran's leader over international demands to stop enriching uranium and ignored in warnings not to incite hatred by questioning the Holocaust.
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U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan meets   Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Sunday after a U.N.   official said Tehran would cooperate on a truce between Israel   and the Iranian-backed Lebanese group Hizbollah.
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U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said Friday that Iran has a vested interest in a peaceful Iraq and should be part of discussions to resolve the conflict there.
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Talks between Tehran and the EU on  Iran's nuclear programme are put back, Iranian representatives say.
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Secretary-General Kofi Annan appealed for nations to unite against human rights abuses, religious divisions, brutal conflicts and an unjust world economy in an emotional farewell on Tuesday. But his remarks were overshadowed by a military coup in Thailand and the Iranian president's fiery defense of his country's nuclear program.
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President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told U.N.   Secretary-General Kofi Annan on Sunday that Iran wanted to find   a negotiated solution to its nuclear dispute with the West but   would not freeze uranium enrichment before talks.
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U.N. Secretary of State Kofi Annan, visiting Iran Saturday, raised concerns with officials over an exhibition of cartoons about the Holocaust that opened in response to Muslim outrage over the Prophet Muhammad caricatures.
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Iran rejected on Sunday a U.N.  resolution calling on it to freeze uranium enrichment  activities and threatened to stop snap checks of its atomic  facilities if its case were sent to the U.N. Security Council.
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Both the head of the world nuclear watchdog and the Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman rejected allegations that the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) chief colluded with Iran by omitting critical information from an inspection report over the
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UN chief Ban Ki-moon says he was "shocked" at comments by the Iranian president about  Israel.
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The State Department said Thursday that Iran's refusal to comply with U.N. Security Council demands to curtail its nuclear program is a "missed opportunity" for the Iranian government and the Iranian people.
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U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan held   talks in Iran on Saturday to seek help in shoring up a   Hizbollah-Israel ceasefire and to discuss Tehran's nuclear   standoff with the West.
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Iran's top nuclear negotiator dismisses threats of force against it, as the UN prepares to make a crucial report.
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Iran fails to comply with demands to halt uranium enrichment, UN watchdog says.
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A senior Iranian official said Wednesday  that Iran has no fear of being sent to the U.N. Security  Council for violating the non-proliferation pact, though it  would be a setback in its cooperation with the U.N.
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Iran's senior nuclear negotiator said Sunday that "many misunderstandings were removed" in talks with the European Union about his country's refusal to meet U.N Security Council demands that it freeze uranium enrichment.
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U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said   Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Sunday reaffirmed   support for a U.N. resolution on Lebanon and his determination   to negotiate an end to Tehran's nuclear standoff with the West.