
Our Men in Iran?
• newyorker Posted by Seymour M. HershFrom the air, the terrain of the Department of Energy’s Nevada National Security Site, with its arid high plains and remote mountain peaks, has the look of northwest Iran.
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From the air, the terrain of the Department of Energy’s Nevada National Security Site, with its arid high plains and remote mountain peaks, has the look of northwest Iran.
The mounting threat of a US-Israeli military attack against Iran is based on several factors including:
The Obama administration's man in charge of squeezing Tehran over its nuclear program is unapologetic for the difficulties faced by banks in their dealings with Iran since the U.S. tightened sanctions against the country.
Iran boosts its nuclear program in 2011 adding both nuclear material and facilities, CIA report says
Obama plans regime change by any means, including war
Rhetoric about Iranian intentions to build nuclear weapons still sputter despite intelligence consensus to the contrary
Israel is tightening the noose around Iran. The Israeli government has signed a secret agreement with the government of Azerbaijan to lease two former Soviet military airfields located close to the Iranian border. One of the facilities is being used
Coordinated pressure by the Obama administration and its European allies has caused a rapid fall in oil revenue to Iran, squeezing that nation’s economy ahead of nuclear talks next month, U.S. officials and industry analysts said Friday. The finan
Two major pipeline projects are at present vying to secure future energy supplies to Pakistan, India and China. One originates in Iran while the second one draws on reserves in Turkmenistan.
There isn't a whole lot the American public can do to stop a war that its political class wants. Yet I wonder if the Iranian people themselves could contribute to the cause. The single most important thing for them to do is to speak directly to the W
But at Haaretz, Amir Oren says that Israel has put off an attack until 2013 because of a U.S. analysis showing that Iranian counterattack would kill 200 Americans at once. Oren doesn't say where these Americans would die, but that the analysis has sc
Senator blocks sanctions bill saying it could be used as a means to go to war
The US is sending an amphibious assault group and a couple of thousand US Marines to the Persian Gulf.
Founder of the Trends Research Institute Gerald Celente discusses how conditions of this recession are similar to post-World War recessions.
The US has pressured SWIFT, the international financial messaging service, to drop Iran from its network. According to legendary gold investor Jim Sinclair this will backfire with dire consequences for the dollar.
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Speaking today in South Korea, President Obama warned that there was little time left to resolve the ongoing dispute with Iran through diplomacy, insisting that the “window is closing” for the Iranians.
Iran's atomic energy programme calls into question the sustainability of Israel's own nuclear ambiguity.
The EU’s “blacklist” contains names of those private persons in Iran whom Brussels would like to apply personal pressure on, in addition to numerous sanctions already burdened on the Islamic republic.
Fidel Castro ‘s latest reflections hints to the danger of a looming US Iran war. Fidel Castro warns that a war with Iran war would be the worst mistake in US history.
Israel says it "cannot afford" to wait for an Iranian nuclear weapons program, which intelligence says doesn't exist
The United States, European allies, and Israel all agree that Iran does not have a nuclear weapon, has not decided to build one, and is several years away from having a deliverable nuclear missile.
UK activists from the ‘Stop the War Coalition’ have held a day of action to speak out against war with Iran.
Following last Friday’s majority vote by the Israel Security Council authorizing Iranian “action” when required
In an article posted on the Bloomberg website, the neocon propagandist, Jeffrey Goldberg, tells us an attack on Iran is “historically inevitable” and will not result in World War Three.
A Chinese telecommunications equipment company has sold Iran's largest telecom firm a powerful surveillance system capable of monitoring landline, mobile and internet communications, interviews and contract documents show.
Authorities have interviewed at least 13 people since 2005 with ties to Iran's government who were seen taking pictures of New York City landmarks, a senior New York Police Department official said Wednesday. Police consider these instances to be
The State Department announced on Tuesday that it would exempt 10 European countries and Japan from penalties for doing business with Iran's central bank, because those countries are making significant progress toward weaning themselves off of Irania
Update: as we hit print, we see headlines that the UK will cooperate with the US on bilateral agreement to release oil stocks.
Last week, the Tehran Times noted that the Iranian oil bourse will start trading oil in currencies other than the dollar from March 20. This long-planned move is part of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s vision of economic war with the west.