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| Identifier | Subject | Date | Office | Classification | Tags |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 06IRANRPODUBAI19 |
REFORMISTS STRIKE DISSONANT CHORD [...] No summary [...] |
2006-12-13 13:52:00 | Iran RPO Dubai | SECRET//NOFORN | PGOV PREL IR |
| 07SINGAPORE587 |
SM GOH'S VISIT TO IRAN AND SINGAPORE'S COOL [...] (C) Summary: Singapore's relations with Iran remain cool, despite Senior Minister Goh Chok Tong's visit to Iran this month and the city-state's broader effort over the last three years to expand its links with the Middle East. In 2004, Singapore had Iran in its sights as a potential economic [...] |
2007-03-23 10:12:00 | Embassy Singapore | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ETRD ECON PGOV EPET SN IR |
| 08ANKARA1992 |
TURKEY/IRAN: TURKEY EAGER FOR CHANGE IN IRAN [...] (C) Summary: Turkish officials and Think-tankers in Ankara told Department of State Iranian Affairs Office Director Todd Schwartz during November 13 meetings that the U.S. should initiate direct talks with Iran and signal a willingness to "extend a hand of friendship" early in the Obama Admini [...] |
2008-11-17 15:55:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ENRG IR TU |
| 08BERLIN322 |
IRAN: BUNDESTAG PASSES RESOLUTION CALLING FOR FREE [...] (C) SUMMARY: On March 6, the German Bundestag passed a unanimous resolution on the upcoming Iranian parliamentary elections, calling for a free and fair campaign and free and democratic elections. Speakers from Germany's four main political parties underscored the deteriorating Iranian huma [...] |
2008-03-13 16:23:00 | Embassy Berlin | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL KDEM IR GM |
| 08ISTANBUL466 |
IRAN'S "BRAIN DRAIN": A SNAPSHOT FROM SHARIF [...] (C) Summary and comment: We spoke recently with several students from Iran's prestigious Sharif University of Technology who are headed to the U.S. for graduate/PhD studies. The students shared their views on Sharif's academic competitiveness and student body; described their reliance on th [...] |
2008-08-27 13:45:00 | Consulate Istanbul | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM IR TU |
| 08ISTANBUL560 |
IRAN EXPERTS REACT TO US ELECTIONS WITH SURPRISE, [...] (S) Summary: Our contacts in Turkey and in Iran who follow US-Iran relations closely, including think tank experts, correspondents, and businessmen, have expressed a range of reactions regarding the implications for US-Iran relations to the election of Barack Obama. Their views ran the gamu [...] |
2008-11-05 13:01:00 | Consulate Istanbul | SECRET | PREL PGOV IR US TU |
| 08LONDON2789 |
IRAN: FURTHER READOUT ON GHALIBAF VISIT TO JAPAN [...] (S/NF) Summary: Tehran Mayor and possible 2009 Iranian Presidential candidate Mohammad-Baqer Ghalibaf while on a mid-October visit to Tokyo made comments suggesting he may support a marginally less confrontational approach to the nuclear issue, according to informal readout provided London Iran W [...] |
2008-11-04 13:15:00 | Embassy London | SECRET//NOFORN | KNNP PGOV PREL UK JA IR |
| 08OTTAWA1552 |
US-EU-CANADA TRILATERAL MEETINGS ON IRAN AND US-EU [...] (C) Summary: On December 8, the United States, European Union, and Canada held their regularly scheduled trilateral discussion on Iran at the Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) in Ottawa. Later in the day, U.S. and EU representatives met at the French Emba [...] |
2008-12-12 21:40:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EUN UN XG XF IR CA |
| 08TOKYO2954 |
MAYOR OF TEHRAN VISITS JAPAN [...] (C) Tehran Mayor Mohammad-Baqer Ghalibaf visited Japan October 16 - 21, confirmed MOFA Second Middle East Director Motosada Matano. According to Matano, Ghalibaf was invited by the Japanese under the auspices of their "Opinion Leader Program." The Japanese view him as important because he is [...] |
2008-10-22 08:58:00 | Embassy Tokyo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KNNP IR JA |
| 09ISTANBUL105 |
FACEBOOK IN IRAN: DO YOU KNOW WHO YOUR FRIENDS [...] (C) Summary: In early February the Iranian regime reportedly unblocked internet access in Iran to social networking sites like Facebook. Since then tens of thousands of Iranians have signed up, according to Iranian contacts, and use the website not only for socializing but also for politica [...] |
2009-03-13 07:39:00 | Consulate Istanbul | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINS PHUM ECPS IR |
| 09ISTANBUL131 |
A LEADING IRANIAN ANALYST'S ADVICE ON ROXANA [...] (S/NOFORN) Summary: A leading Iranian analyst shared views with us on March 26 on Iranian-American journalist Roxane Saberi's detention, US-Iran engagement, and Iran's presidential elections. Regarding Saberi's detention, he said if the USG follows the model used in 2007 in response to Hale [...] |
2009-03-31 10:20:00 | Consulate Istanbul | SECRET | PREL PGOV PINS PHUM IR |
| 09ISTANBUL14 |
US-IRAN RELATIONS: CONTACTS IN TURKEY AND IRAN [...] (C) Summary: Iranian contacts and local experts have cautioned it would be a mistake if the USG, as it considers whether, when, and how to engage Iran, withheld such an approach in an effort to impact the outcome of Iran's elections, in this case against Ahmadinejad. One expert argued that [...] |
2009-01-09 11:13:00 | Consulate Istanbul | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINS TU IR |
| 09ISTANBUL175 |
PROMOTING "CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY IN IRAN" [...] (C) Summary: A Turkish NGO that promotes "corporate social responsibility" (CSR) principles in Turkey has briefed us on its efforts to train an Iranian CSR NGO to survey 100 Iranian companies on the extent to which they implement CSR principles in Iran. Not surprisingly the initial results [...] |
2009-05-20 15:16:00 | Consulate Istanbul | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV PREL IR TU |
| 09ISTANBUL47 |
IRAN/DIPLOMACY: FORMER IRANIAN MFA DG URGES [...] (C) Summary: Kia Tabatabaee, a former Iranian MFA Director General now working for the "Developing Eight" (D8) organization in Istanbul, told us that Iran awaits US steps towards engagement. He urged the US and EU3 to put aside the nuclear issue "for a few months" and cooperate on regional i [...] |
2009-01-29 11:59:00 | Consulate Istanbul | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINS IR TU |
| 09RPODUBAI340 |
IRAN: REGIME STALWARTS TURNS OUT IN FORCE AT JUDICIARY HAIL [...] (C) SUMMARY. IRIG regime stalwarts showed up in force at an August 17 ceremony to greet the new head of the Judiciary Hojjatoleslam Sadegh Larijani (brother of Majlis Speaker Ali Larijani) and to bid farewell to the previous Judiciary head Ayatollah Seyyed Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi. This was [...] |
2009-08-19 11:47:00 | Iran RPO Dubai | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IR |
| 09USUNNEWYORK344 |
AMBASSADOR RICE MEETS JAPAN'S AMBASSADOR TO IRAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Ambassador Rice on March 31 met with Akio Shirota, Japan's Ambassador to Iran, to hear Japan's assessment of U.S. outreach to Iran and Shirota's analysis of Iran's internal political situation. Shirota said President Obama's Nowruz message to the Iranians on March 19 gave Irania [...] |
2009-04-02 00:49:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IR JA UNSC |