President Jimmy Carter meets with Margaret Thatcher at the White House

WASHINGTON, Nov. 26 (UPI) -- Nearly 30 years of U.S. sanctions have left Iran's energy industry in a parlous state. Speaking at the opening ceremony of the first National Stakeholder System Development Congress in Oil Industry, Iran's Deputy Oil Minister Hamdollah Mohammadnejad candidly stated that Iran needs foreign investment of $14 billion annually over the next decade to sustain and improve its energy infrastructure.

WASHINGTON, July 23 (UPI) -- U.S. officials should cease talk about a military option if negotiations fail to immediately end Iran's uranium program, two ex-national security advisers say.

WASHINGTON, July 9 (UPI) -- It has been a rollercoaster week for the Bush administration's plans to build anti-ballistic missile interceptor bases in Central Europe to guard against the future threat of Iranian nuclear attack.

WASHINGTON, June 13 (UPI) -- Russia's clash with the former Soviet republic of Georgia is a move to control the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline, Zbigniew Brzezinski told the U.S. Senate.

WASHINGTON, June 5 (UPI) -- William Odom, a hawk as director of the U.S. National Security Agency who became an Iraq War opponent, has died at 75.

LINCOLN, Vt., June 2 (UPI) -- Retired Army Lt. Gen. William E. Odom, a leading U.S. military and intelligence figure who became a leading critic of the Iraq War has died. He was 75.

WASHINGTON, May 30 (UPI) -- Former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan wrote a blistering memoir in which he accused President Bush of misleading the nation into an unnecessary war in Iraq. But what he had to say is precisely what a large part of the foreign policy establishment, including so-called moderate Republicans, concluded five years ago.

UPI Almanac for Friday, March 28, 2008.

WASHINGTON, March 16 (UPI) -- U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was an intermediary between Hamas and the Israeli government during her recent trip to the Middle East, officials said.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 21 (UPI) -- What would be the consequences of a U.S. military attack against Iran's nuclear program?