Friction between Iranian, Syrian soldiers surfaces
Interesting stuff. The Daily Star, BEIRUT, Nov 26: A pro-Syrian opposition website has published footage on YouTube of an Iranian Revolutionary Guard commander in Syria criticizing the callous behavior...
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Let’s make a deal! Iran runs the table
UPDATE 2-Iran names 7 Western oil companies it wants to return Dec 4 (Reuters) – Iran on Wednesday named seven Western oil companies it wants back in its vast oil and gas fields if international...
View ArticleAmerican missing in Iran since 2007 was working for the CIA
The Guardian/AP – In March 2007, retired FBI agent Robert Levinson flew to Kish Island, an Iranian resort awash with tourists, smugglers and organized crime figures. Days later, after an arranged...
View ArticleBehind Prime Minister Netanyahu’s Opposition to the Geneva Agreement, Part One
The agreement between Iran and the P5+1 powers has been received with considerable optimism in much of the world, as has the beginning of its implementation this week. Iran will limit its enriched...
View ArticleBehind Prime Minister Netanyahu’s Opposition to the Geneva Agreement, Part Two
Fragmentation Netanyahu might have a bolder ambition in mind than merely preventing Iran from advancing its nuclear program. The Middle East is changing more rapidly than at any time since the end of...
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Israel and Saudi Ambitions
Israel-Palestine: When the Map Lies The US and Iran are negotiating to end the over 33 years of lack of diplomatic recognition and the US-led sanction on Iran. This effort causes the Right Wing Israeli...
View ArticleTurkey’s Erdogan visits Iran to improve ties after split over Syria
Reuters, By Parisa Hafezi ANKARA, Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan visited Iran on Wednesday to bolster trade and energy ties, state TV said, in what also looked like a bid to defuse tensions over...
View ArticleThe battle of Anbar and the future of Iraq and al Qaeda, Part Two
The Sunni of Anbar The grim strategic situation facing Iraqi Sunnis today parallels that of ten years ago when they were beset by powerful enemies in al Qaeda but also US troops and Shia militias. The...
View ArticleIran and U.S. agree final nuclear deal may be unreachable
Reuters, By Parisa Hafezi & Louis Charbonneau, February 17 Vienna – The United States and long-time arch-foe Iran agree on at least one thing ahead of Tuesday’s negotiations on a long-term nuclear...
View ArticlePopulation Wars
What country has a lower birthrate than London or Paris? Answer after the break. Iran. Births in Iran dropped to 1.6 children per woman in 2012 from 6.4 three decades earlier, UN data shows. The rate...
View ArticleIranian Ship, in Plain View but Shrouded in Mystery, Looks Very Familiar to U.S.
NYT – Iran is building a nonworking mock-up of an American nuclear-powered aircraft carrier that United States officials say may be intended to be blown up for propaganda value. Intelligence analysts...
View ArticleTuesday Tensions bedevil Arab summit
Kuwait is hosting the Heads of Arab states for their annual summit for the first time since joining Arab League. Qatar is being pressured to stop supporting the Muslim Brotherhood and other radical...
View ArticleObama signs law barring Iran U.N. envoy
Al Jazeera, April 18 Washington – President Barack Obama on Friday signed into law a bill barring entrance to the U.S. for any foreign diplomat seen as a threat to American security or who has engaged...
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Republicans Suck
Really: Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl can expect a buoyant homecoming after five years in Taliban hands, but those in the government who worked for his release face mounting questions over the prisoner swap...
View ArticleAge of terrorism, extremism over: Rouhani
PressTV, June 29 Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani has reaffirmed the importance of strengthening cooperation among regional countries to combat terrorists, stressing that the era of violence and...
View ArticleIran warns US against using ISIL threat to push a hostile agenda
Al Jazeera, By Azadeh Moaveni, September 16 Despite already having demonstrated its centrality to the campaign to push the Islamic State (ISIL) out of Iraq, Iran was pointedly excluded from Monday’s...
View ArticleIran hits back after West condemns its human rights record
Reuters, By Stephanie Nebehay, October 31 Geneva – Iran defended itself on Friday against Western accusations of repression and a sharp rise in executions, including that of a woman hanged for...
View ArticleU.S. delays release of study on 1953 Iran coup
AP, December 19 The State Department is delaying the release of a volume from its U.S. foreign relations history that deals with the CIA-backed overthrow of an Iranian prime minister in the 1950s out...
View ArticleUMass bans Iranians from some engineering, science programs
AP -The University of Massachusetts at Amherst has banned Iranian nationals from admission to certain graduate programs that school officials say aligns its policy with U.S. sanctions against Iran....
View ArticleKhamenei: Iran Could Cut Europe’s Access to Gas if Sanctions not Lifted
Al-Akhbar English/Reuters, February 18 Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei vowed on Wednesday that his country would resist global sanctions imposed over its nuclear program, saying that Iran...
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