Ethnic tensions are rising in southwest Iran’s Khuzistan province along the Iraqi border, where violence has left three dead and injured in recent days. Protests by the region’s Arab minority were sparked by reports that authorities were planning to colonize… Read moreArab unrest, peace protests in Iran
As Bush equivocates, former UN weapons inspector Scott Ritter states in a commentary for al-Jazeera that he was told by an anonymous "someone close to the Bush administration" that the U.S. military attack on Iran is slated for June 2005…. Read moreRitter predicts: Iran attack in June
A March 3 account in Newsday indicates that Iran’s secret police are hunting down dissidents who have taken refuge in neighboring countries. Newsday highlights the case of Abdulrahim Raeesi, political science professor who was arrested in Tehran by the Ministry… Read moreIranian agents hunt down dissidents abroad?
Iran and Russia signed a deal Feb. 27 to get the Bushehr nuclear reactor, Iran’s first, up and running. Under the deal, Russia agrees to supply fuel, and Iran agrees to have the spent returned to Russia so that it… Read moreIran and Russia sign nuke deal
"This notion that the United States is getting ready to attack Iran is simply ridiculous," Bush told a news conference after talks with European Union leaders in Brussels. "Having said that, all options are on the table," he added, drawing… Read moreBush: Talk of Iran attack “ridiculous,” but…
Up to 400 are reported dead in an earthquake which struck near the city of Zarand in Kerman province of southeastern Iran. (RFE/RL, Reuters, Feb. 22) A December 2003 earthquake at the city of Bam, also in Zarand, killed some… Read moreIran: 400 dead in earthquake
Speaking at an anti-war event in Olympia, WA, former Iraq weapons inspector Scott Ritter claimed that President Bush has already signed off on plans to start bombing Iran in June, ostensibly to eliminate weapons of mass destruction. If we live… Read moreScott Ritter: Iran attack planned for June
Writes Israeli left-wing commentator Uri Avnery in a Feb. 19 piece for Media Monitors Network, "Beware of the Dog!": It is not very flattering to be paraded like a Rottweiler on a leash, whose master threatens to let him loose… Read moreIsraeli air-strikes on Iran planned?
You read it here first, but now its official. Iran’s government has officially blamed US spy drones for a wave of UFO sightings, and warns that it will shoot the craft down. Information Minister Ali Yunessi threatened that if the… Read moreIran: US using spy planes
Two weeks ago, WW4 Report cited a little-noted UPI story that the US Air Force has already started flying misions over Iran, to "grid" the country’s military and industrial infrastructure for bombing raids. Today comes a report from Israel’s Haaretz… Read moreUS air strikes in Iran?
The current White House drive for intervention against Iran may actually have more to do with strategic control of oil and gas resources than Tehran’s nuclear ambitions. Pakistan’s Daily Times reports Feb. 11 that at the Third Asia Gas Buyers’… Read morePipeline politics behind Iran intervention drive?
At a massive Tehran rally marking Iran’s 1979 Islamic Revolution Feb. 10, President Mohammad Khatami pledged that no Iranian government would abandon the country’s program to devlop peaceful nuclear technology. (AP, Feb. 10) He promised a "burning hell" for any… Read morePro-nuke rally in Tehran
