The BBC reports today that price of oil is back up to over $70 a barrel following a drop of more than $1.50 following news yesterday that Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad had written Bush a personal letter. This was initially… Read moreAhmadinejad letter signals escalation
Just as the PUK shows signs of losing control of its stronghold in northern Iraq, it launches attacks across the border in Iran—with doubtless US (and likely Israeli) assistance and direction. Iran, of course, replies by bombing Kurdish civilians, which… Read morePUK raids Iran; Tehran shells Kurds
He knows how to play to a heartland audience. It’s the Jews who are gonna make me sacrifice your sons on the killing fields of Iran. Never mind that Iran’s growing sway over the Baghdad regime poses a threat to… Read moreBush: I’ll attack Iran to “protect Israel”
An ominous sense of deja vu. The US invasion of Iraq and rift with France immediately preceded new oil deals between Saddam and the French giant Total. (Seee WW4 REPORT #56) Now, just as Bush is rattling the sabre and… Read moreFrench oil giant in talks with Iran
From Human Rights Watch, March 9: Iranian police and plainclothes agents yesterday charged a peaceful assembly of women’s rights activists in Tehran and beat hundreds of women and men who had gathered to commemorate International Women’s Day, Human Rights Watch… Read moreIran: police attack Women’s Day march; crackdown on Sufis
Pejman Akbarzadeh, a member of the Tehran chapter of Artists Without Frontiers and the author of a two-volume work on Persian music, writes in response to Melody Zagami’s review in our March issue of Nasrin Alavi’s book We Are Iran:… Read more“Farsi” or “Persian”?
Boy, things are really getting out of hand. Here’s how the European double standard on free speech paradoxically legitimizes and strengthens Holocaust revisionism. Europe defends Islamophobia in the name of freedom of expression, while denying that same freedom to the… Read morePoland blasts Tehran’s Holocaust “fact-finding” trip
From Haartez, Feb. 19: Jewish group: Try Ahmadinejad for incitement to genocide The European Jewish Congress (EJC) is set to file a complaint in the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague against Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for incitement to… Read moreGenocide incitement charges for Ahmadinejad?
From the UK Telegraph, Feb. 12: US prepares military blitz against Iran’s nuclear sites Strategists at the Pentagon are drawing up plans for devastating bombing raids backed by submarine-launched ballistic missile attacks against Iran’s nuclear sites as a “last resort”… Read morePentagon prepares Iran air campaign
How does this square with the fatwa against nuclear weapons reportedly issued by Iran’s Ayatollah Ali Khamenei last year (which predictably failed to accrue any media attention in the West)? From the neo-conservative Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), Feb…. Read moreIran issues pro-nuclear fatwa?
Gee, we sure wish this was getting more headlines! The first paragraph is annoyingly sarcastic (the global protests he refers to, of course, have unfortunately not occurred). But the last paragraph is spot on! Why do so few on the… Read moreTehran’s striking bus drivers: real defenders of Muslim rights
The National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) carries this Jan. 25 report on Tehran’s accusations that the UK was behind the previous day’s bomb blast in Iran’s heavily Arab western district of Ahwaz. Of course, the NCRI’s armed wing,… Read moreTehran: UK behind terror blasts
