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
The Feb. 8 NY Times featured an op-ed by Shirin Ebadi, Iranian dissident attorney and winner of the 2003 Nobel Peace Prize, co-authored with Hadi Ghaem of Human Rights Watch: "The Human Rights Case Against Attacking Iran". Ebadi is skeptical… Read moreIranian Nobel Laureate dissident blasts US intervention
The right-wing Jerusalem Post was handed a propaganda coup Feb. 1 by one of Iran’s official press agencies, which marked the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz (commemorated by media and political leaders worldwide) in its own typically heartwarming… Read moreIran news agency: Holocaust was Zionist plot
In a little-noted but potentially ominous move, Halliburton has announced that is pulling out of Iran, where it has long maintained oil industry maintenance services, exploiting loopholes in the sanctions. The company’s CEO Dave Lesar said "the business environment currently… Read moreIran: Halliburton out, Air Force in?
