Days after Russia sparked a brief crisis in Europe by cutting off gas to Ukraine (and therefore points west), comes another sign of Moscow using petro-politics in a bid to restore its lost Great Power status. Under the five-year deal… Read moreGazprom eyes stake in Iran pipeline
Looks like it is back to the bad old days in Iran—the years of revolutionary fervor in the early ’80s when music was banned from the public airwaves. Writes one of our readers: “Too bad the neo-cons are too stupid/sectarian/scared… Read moreIran: president bans Western music
The best-case scenario for the Bush administration in Iraq now is a modicum of stability under a Shi’ite-dominated regime more loyal to Tehran than Washington. In the January 2005 elections, voters trounced the US proxies, the secular Shi’ites of Iyad… Read moreIsraeli intelligence sets deadline for strikes on Iran
According to the Voice of the Islamic Republic of Iran radio, Nov. 4, the supreme Iranian leader Ayatollah Ali Khamene’i appeared to distance himself from the statement of hardline Iranian President Mahmud Ahmadinezhad that Israel should be “wiped off the… Read moreIranian supremo: throwing Jews into the sea not halal
On Oct. 8, Maryam Namazie of the Organization of Women’s Liberation in Iran (OWLI) , was awarded the National Secular Society‘s first Irwin Prize for “Secularist of the Year” in London . The £5,000 annual prize, sponsored by NSS member… Read moreIranian feminist wins “secularist of the year” award in UK
This profile of Maryam Rajavi, leader of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, in the Sept. 24 New York Times (online at Iran Focus) is a skillful piece of subtle obfuscation. It notes (largely in the past tense) the ties between the… Read moreIran: Mujahedeen Khalq new US proxy?
Gary Milhollin, director of the Wisconsin Project on Nuclear Arms Control and publisher of IranWatch.org, has the lead op-ed in the Aug. 23 New York Times, “Don’t Underestimate the Mullahs,” warning that Iran could be much closer to having The… Read moreIran: nuclear paranoia in the New York Times
Violent clashes between Kurds and police erupted in the north Syrian town of Ein al-Arab Aug. 16, according to the Arab Organisation for Human Rights in Syria (AOHRS). The organization said the violence flared after police halted a march in… Read moreMore Kurdish unrest in Syria, Iran
President Bush refuses to rule out military action in response to Iran’s renewed nuclear operations. “As I say, all options are on the table. The use of force is the last option for any president and you know, we’ve used… Read moreUS, EU at odds on Iran military option; Caspian oil route in background
It has gone largely unnoticed in all the coverage of Iran’s resumed nuclear fuel enrichment operations, but an official statement issued by the Islamic republic at the emergency meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in Vienna Aug. 9… Read moreIran issues anti-nuke fatwa
Iran has resumed operations at its Isfahan plant to enrich uranium ore for reactor fuel. The plant will convert yellowcake, or uranium ore, into uranium hexafluoride gas to be fed into centrifuges for uranium enrichment in the still-closed neighboring Natanz… Read moreHalliburton tied to Iran nuke program?
TruthOut offers the following tidbit from Newsweek on a National Intelligence Council finding that, contrary to Bush’s dearest dreams, Iran “is not in a prerevolutionary state.” We wonder if this document was drawn up before several cities in western Iran… Read moreNational Intelligence Council: Iran stable
