Asked about Iran’s nuclear programme on Face the Nation on CBS on 8 January 2012, US Defense Secretary, Leon Panetta, replied: “Are they [the Iranians] trying to develop a nuclear weapon? No.”
A series of CIA memos describes how Israeli Mossad agents posed as American spies to recruit members of the terrorist organization Jundallah to fight their covert war against Iran.
The USS John C Stennis, which is among the US warships patrolling the strategically vital strait of Hormuz. Photograph: Ron Reeves/AP
Sabre-rattling at Washington's behest is an idiocy, and likely to do little other than escalate the steps to open conflict
The possibility of a military strike against Iran has become a focal point of U.S. foreign policy debates. As the hawkish voices intensify, we as members of a generation born in the midst of the Iran-Iraq War cannot help but remember the tragedy of those eight years of bloodshed that are so ingrained in our memories.
Netanyahu and Ahmadinejad behave like mutant clones when it comes to their international brinkmanship and their uncanny knack of furthering their peoples' international isolation.
The path to democracy in Iran does not pass through Washington, Paris, London, Brussels, and Berlin, but through Tehran, Tabriz, Mashhad, Esfahan, and Shiraz; the Alborz and Zagros mountains; the shores of the Persian Gulf, the Sea of Oman and the Caspian Sea; the northern forest and the central desert. The sooner Iranians understand this, the better.
Lobbying for a US war with Iran, AIPAC is pushing a bill that would prohibit diplomacy between the two nations.
GVF — Iranian park ranger Asad Taghizadeh is facing an imminent risk of execution over the killing of an illegal hunter, according to media reports.
News of a Kidnapping sells out in Tehran bookshops as detained opposition leader cites it as accurate reflection of his experience