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
Gee, we can hardly wait for this one. From Reuters, Jan. 15: TEHRAN – Iran is planning a conference to assess the scale of the Holocaust, which President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad rejects as a myth, Foreign Ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi… Read moreIran plans conference to “assess” Holocaust
OK, was the CIA behind this one? Pretty convenient timing, just as Iran has removed International Atomic Energy Agency seals on from three nuclear production facilities at Natanz, Pars Trash and Farayand Tec—announcing a resumption of uranium enrichment activities in… Read moreIran: Revolutionary Guard brass killed in air crash
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 ÂŁ5,000 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?
