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Iran and Iraq exchange border fire
AFP Iraqi border guards exchanged fire with Iranian troops along the two countries’ border yesterday, the first major incident between the two since Iran took over a disputed oil well in December. An Iraqi
Read More »41 Journalists Jailed in Iran
The press freedom organization Reporters Without Borders says it is concerned by what it calls the growing repression of journalists and cyber-dissidents in Iran. In a report issued Sunday, the RSF (Reporters Sans Frontieres)
Read More »Protest in London over ‘rigged’ Iranian election
Green flags and banners fly as a crowd of 2,000 or so demonstrators chant anti-Iranian regime slogans. Many pump their fists into the air, screaming in Persian: “Guns and tanks are of no use
Read More »Iran Police Crack Down As Thousands Protest
His backers were demonstrating over the re-election of hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who won by a landslide despite opposition claims the result was rigged. The protesters defied a call from the country’s supreme leader
Read More »Iran Protesters Start Hacking
RINF NEWS As protesters take to the streets, both sides of the debate have taken to the the Internet. Twitter and other blogs are being used to direct users to a number of sites and tools that encourage
Read More »Craig Murry on Iran
For me, any sensible discussion of Iran must accept a number of facts. I will set these out as Set A and Set B. Both sets are true. But ideologues of the right routinely
Read More »Iran Restricts Foreign Media
Cell Phone Network Shut Down, Websites Blocked in Effort to Control Information Coming Out of Tehran As Friday’s election gave way to a weekend of riots in the capital city of Tehran and accusations
Read More »Iran lacks nuclear bomb fuel: US officials
WASHINGTON (AFP) - Iran has yet to decide whether to build a nuclear bomb and currently lacks the weapons-grade highly enriched uranium needed to do so, top US intelligence officials told lawmakers on Tuesday. But
Read More »Iran Next Target, Warns Israeli Diplomat
The Age A SENIOR Israeli diplomat has warned that Israel is ready to launch a military offensive against Iran to prevent it from developing nuclear weapons. In an interview with The Age, Dan Gillerman,
Read More »Iran moves to hold war crimes tribunal
The Iranian cabinet introduces a bill to take action on individuals accused of war crimes amid a seeming ceasefire in the Gaza Strip. The cabinet of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad laid out details of
Read More »FIVE FORMER SECRETARIES OF STATE SUPPORT DIRECT TALKS WITH IRAN
National Security Network – Five former American secretaries of state all reaffirmed their support for direct talks with Iran. Henry Kissinger went as far as to say that there must be high-level talks with
Read More »US a Step Closer to Iran Blockade
Asia Times | The United States government has imposed new sanctions on Iran, this time targeting its shipping industry, by blacklisting the main shipping line and 18 subsidiaries, accusing the maritime carrier of being engaged
Read More »Obama: Nuclear Iran ‘unacceptable’
YNet News | WASHINGTON – Iran is a “major threat” and it would be “unacceptable” for the rogue nation to develop a nuclear weapon, Barack Obama said Thursday. Obama: Nuclear Iran ‘unacceptable’ ‘Iran a major threat;
Read More »War with Iran – On, Off or Undecided?
By Stephen Lendman – RINF | There’s good news and bad, mostly the latter but don’t discount the good. On May 22, (non-binding) HR 362 was introduced in the House – with charges and
Read More »Bush must be stopped before starting war with Iran
By JOE PARKO | The Bush administration, in rhetoric that is eerily similar to that used to build the case for a war against Iraq, asserts that the Iranian Quds Force is arming anti-U.S.
Read More »Strike on Iran still possible, U.S. tells Israel
LA Times | WASHINGTON — Bush administration officials reassured Israel’s defense minister this week that the United States has not abandoned all possibility of a military attack on Iran, despite widespread Israeli concern that Washington
Read More »Rice says Iran not serious at weekend nuke talks
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice accused Iran on Monday of not being serious at weekend talks about its disputed nuclear program despite the presence of a senior U.S. diplomat, and warned it may soon
Read More »Breaking Iraq and Blaming Iran
By Andrew G. Marshall | In September of 2005, the southern Iraqi oil city of Basra, under British occupation since the 2003 invasion, was the scene of an extraordinarily controversial incident, which has since
Read More »Rice: US still puts conditions on talks with Iran
AP News | Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Friday that the United States still has conditions for negotiating with Iran even though the Bush administration is sending a senior diplomat to weekend talks
Read More »President George W Bush backs Israeli plan for strike on Iran
By Uzi Mahnaimi in Washington | President George W Bush has told the Israeli government that he may be prepared to approve a future military strike on Iranian nuclear facilities if negotiations with Tehran
Read More »Iran’s top nuclear negotiator faces charges over Halliburton ties
Iran Focus | Iran’s judiciary has arrested several executives of a privately-owned oil drilling company over their dealings with the U.S.-based oil giant Halliburton and one of the country’s top nuclear negotiators is facing
Read More »Iran blames West for ‘artificially’ raising oil prices, says war threat is a ‘joke’
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia | Iran’s president again took aim at the West, blaming the U.S. and Europe for “artificially” raising oil prices and dismissing as “a funny joke” fears that his country could come under attack.
Read More »Ex-Agent Says CIA Ignored Iran Facts
By Joby Warrick | A former CIA operative who says he tried to warn the agency about faulty intelligence on Iraqi weapons programs now contends that CIA officials also ignored evidence that Iran had suspended
Read More »U.S. escalating covert operations against Iran: report
U.S. congressional leaders agreed late last year to President George W. Bush’s funding request for a major escalation of covert operations against Iran aimed at destabilizing its leadership, according to a report in The
Read More »Bush threatens Iran with military action
By Colin Brown | George Bush has warned Iran that military action is still “on the table” if it fails to respond to tightening diplomatic pressure to abandon its nuclear weapons programme. The EU
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