TEHRAN (Tasnim) - Germany called for less rhetoric and more action in the wake of President Obamas pledge to stop spying on world leaders. While the announcement was greeted with optimism, politicians said it was too little, from a German point of view. Barack Obama sought to allay European fears of the NSA gathering intelligence on its leaders ...

TEHRAN, Nov. 10 (MNA) A new poll by German public television (ARD) indicates that only 35 percent of Germans still see the United States as a good partner. That figure has fallen 14 points since just this past July when about half of all Germans saw America as a partner they could trust. The new poll also indicates that 61 percent of Germans now see ...

TEHRAN, Nov. 3 (MNA) Germany and the United States plan to ink a no-spy agreement next year to prohibit the bilateral spying of citizens and governments as a consequence of the U.S. spying scandal, a German newspaper reported in its Sunday edition. The initative came after German and U.S. officials held talks at the White House earlier in the week,...

TEHRAN (FNA)- Malaysia summoned the heads of the US and Australian missions in protest at spying allegations, its furious foreign minister said, as a row over a vast US-led surveillance network deepened in Asia. China and Indonesia have already demanded explanations from Australia over reports that Canberra's missions were being used to monitor ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Judiciary Chief Sadeq Amoli Larijani lambasted Washington for eavesdropping the phone talks and messages of the world people and leaders, calling the move as the worst kind of violation of human rights. The Americans have violated human rights in its worst form by wiretapping the (phone) conversations, Amoli Larijani said,...

[caption id="attachment_31936" align="alignright" width="180"] Director of US National Intelligence James Clapper[/caption] TEHRAN (Tasnim) - The United States espionage chiefs said spying on allies is necessary and the collection of millions of European phone records was conducted with the help of European governments. The US national intelligence ...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- When President Barack Obama visited Berlin in June, German Chancellor Angela Merkel made a point of showing him a balcony in her office overlooking train tracks that crossed the border of her once-divided country - a symbol of her upbringing on the east side of the divide, where eavesdropping by secret police was rampant during the ...

Berlin, Oct 29, IRNA -- The German parliament is set to discuss next month the latest media relevations that US spies had eavesdropped on the cell phone of Chancellor Angela Merkel, the weekly Der Spiegel reported here Monday. German lawmakers are to convene in a special session on November 18 to deliberate on the large-scale US espionage activities ...

Germany says its confidence in the United States has been shaken by recent revelations that the US National Security Agency spied on Chancellor Angela Merkel. "If the Americans intercepted cell phones in Germany, they broke German law on German soil," Germanys Interior Minister Hans-Peter Friedrich told the German newspaperBild am Sonntagon Sunday,...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) - The United States may have bugged German Chancellor Angela Merkel's phone for more than 10 years, according to a news report by the German magazine Der Spiegel. The report said that Merkel's mobile telephone had been listed by the NSA's Special Collection Service (SCS) since 2002, marked as "GE Chancellor Merkel", and was still ...

TEHRAN, Oct. 27 (MNA) Thousands march on Capitol Hill in Washington to protest US government's mass online surveillance programmes. Thousands of protesters have marched on the Capitol Hill in Washington to protest against the US government's online surveillance programmes seen as encroaching on private life. Saturdays protest comes amid a widening ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) - Germany summoned the US ambassador to Berlin over claims that the US carried out surveillance on German Chancellor Angela Merkel's mobile phone. Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle will meet US envoy John B Emerson later today. The move comes just hours after the White House insisted the US was not listening in on her phone ...

(Reuters) - German and French accusations that the United States has run spying operations in their countries, including possibly bugging Chancellor Angela Merkel's mobile phone, are likely to dominate an EU leaders' meeting starting on Thursday. The two-day Brussels summit, called to tackle a range of social and economic issues, will now be overshadowed ...

TEHRAN, Oct. 24 (MNA) German Chancellor Angela Merkel has called US President Barack Obama after receiving information that the US may have spied on her mobile phone. A spokesman for Mrs Merkel said the German leader "views such practices... as completely unacceptable". Mrs Merkel called on US officials to clarify the extent of their surveillance ...