Iran continues to make headway on its nuclear program and the rest of the world is watching on while the theocratic regime comes closer to obtaining a nuclear bomb.
Reza Khalili writes:
Russia turned on the switch to Iran’s first nuclear power plant on Aug. 21 after repeated delays and more than 15 years of construction. [...]
Finally someone who gets it:
The recent revelation of Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates’ January memorandum to senior White House officials apparently outlining a range of options for dealing with Iran’s persistent drive to achieve nuclear-weapons capability is most timely. On April 19, hard-line Iranian authorities banned the country’s two remaining official “opposition” parties [...]
The United States Defense Department has released a 12 page unclassified report on Iran’s military power that describes Iran’s relative growing military power (including Iran’s nuclear program) and its efforts to become a regional superpower by supporting terrorist organizations and waging a proxy war against the United States and its allies.
Personally I think that the [...]
Iran’s selected president, Mahmoud Ahmedinejad, is currently in Afghanistan to meet with Afghan president Hamid Karzai. During a press conference yesterday Ahmedinejad claimed that the United States has created the terrorists in Afghanistan.
It has been evident for years now that Iran supports different armed groups in Afghanistan. Iran even supports its former archenemy, the Taliban’s. [...]
On Sunday Iraqis voted in the country’s parliamentary election and according to early reports no party, or blocs of parties, managed to win enough votes to be able to form a single-majority government.
The election process has been hailed as relatively democratic, despite evidence of fraud (tens of thousands of Kurds was according to reports denied [...]
It seems that no one in the West knows what to with Iran. The Obama administration and its allies are grasping for any solution, even if the solution would lead to other problems. Pundits and self-described experts on Iran are proposing everything from sanctions, military attacks and unconditional engagement to ignoring Iran.
The Obama administration’s Iran [...]
After listening to Hillary Clinton talking about how Iran’s Revolutionary Guard is “supplanting” the government of Iran one really becomes bewildered by the United States Iran-policy.
Apparently, the US believes that the supreme leader, Ayatollah Khamenei, and Mahmoud Ahmedinejad are powerless figures, who are being controlled by the Revolutionary Guard. It seems that the fact that [...]
In the video above, Congressman Rob Andrews expresses the fundamental problem with the United States policy towards Iran, the Fox News anchor makes a couple of important points, but it is strange that the U.S. still doesn’t understand that:
1. Sanctions will not cause a change in the Islamic Republics behavior.
2. The U.S. will not [...]
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Watch – Iran’s Smoking Gun:
Mohamed El-Baradei said that Iran has not yet given the IAEA any written response in which Iran rejected the 5+1 proposal, and Hillary Clinton said that the U.S. doesn’t consider Mottaki’s rejection as Iran’s “final word”.
It is quite absurd to expect anything else from Iran, they will prolong this Cat and Mouse game as long [...]
