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In November I asked: Natanz, Qom, Arak, Isfahan, Bushehr, how many more nuclear facilities? How will this end?

Israel unveils drone that ’can reach Iran’. We are finding out how more every day and it isn’t good as Iran ’to build 2 new nuclear enrichment sites’ and Israel unveils drone that ’can reach Iran’. Iran ’to (...)

25 Feb. 2010 | 1 comment | James Joiner

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U.S. – Iran Power Struggle over Iraq

A secure, stable and democratic Iraq will have first to wait for an end to the raging power struggle over Iraq between the United States and Iran inside and outside the occupied Arab country. By Nicola Nasser* U.S. Ambassador Christopher Hill’s (...)

18 Feb. 2010 | 1 comment | nicola

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Iran Presses Ahead with Nuclear Enrichment Despite Warning from the US and Others

Iran moves ahead with nuclear enrichment

Tehran, Iran- France, Russia and the United States on Tuesday voiced their displeasure with Iran’s escalation of its uranium enrichment and saw this as a great a concern for its neighbors and other countries around the globe. The three countries, (...)

17 Feb. 2010 | 3 comments | Manzer Munir

International

Congress Pushing for Radical Steps to Shake up Iran with New Energy Sanctions

U.S. lawmakers are toughening their stance on Iran’s energy industry with new economic penalties, but experts doubt the Islamic regime will pay much attention and is more likely to open the doors even wider to other players eager to replace fleeing (...)

10 Feb. 2010 | 3 comments | Staffjam

Comment

Caspian Makan for Agoravox on Neda thinking

Caspian was Neda’s boyfriend until 20 of june 2009. In this date Neda was killed during fights against Ahmadinejad’s regime. Caspian was a witness to the revolutionary movement in Iran in the past months. Last 25 of January he answered for (...)

8 Feb. 2010 | 2 comments | paolo praolini

International

Despite the Biased rhetoric I got I was right as without a doubt, Iran has both civilian, military nuke programs!

’Without a doubt, Iran has both civilian, military nuke programs’ I have been saying for years that they are stalling us until they achieve their goal of attaining nuclear weapons. I knew their civilian program was a cover for their long term (...)

29 Jan. 2010 | 3 comments | James Joiner

Comment

Iran Needs a Democratic and Secular Opposition

Unfortunately, the worst-ever condition of our people have not stimulated enough responsible reactions among democratic and secular activists on how to form a united movement to free the country from the plague of the Islamic regime. The lack of a (...)

22 Jan. 2010 | 1 comment | Jahanshah Rashidian

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Iranian Protests for Democracy is a Cry for Freedom Across the Muslim World

Tehran, Iran- Demonstrations in Iran continue a little over a week after the mass protests the occurred throughout Iran on the Shiite festival of Ashura as protestors defy the government’s crackdown on dissent. It appears that for the first time (...)

11 Jan. 2010 | | Manzer Munir

International

Iran’s Nuclear Ambitions Highlight the potential of Uranium and Nuclear Power

One bonus of the global recession is that it wiped a lot of incompetent hedge fund managers and energy speculators from the canyons of Wall Street. As the Gordon Gecko sycophants regroup and look for the next Big Thing, maximizing profit while minimizing (...)

4 Dec. 2009 | | Staffjam

International

What The Persians Did For Us

The recent victory of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad at the presidential election caused a stir. The Iranian population and the international community see the outcome as fraudulent. Since then, this agitation has led to mass protests all over Iran and in other (...)

1 Dec. 2009 | | affable_alpha

International

The Saudi Iranian Neo Cold War : Iran’s proxy war in Yemen !

MIR : The Saudi-Iranian Neo Cold War. Yemen’s fight with rebels a regional concern Of course Iran denies it and warns us to mind our own business. Warns those in the region, do not pour oil on the fire ! Saudi combat jets hit rebel targets (...)

18 nov. 2009 | | James Joiner

International

Iran warned time running out for negotiated nuclear settlement

Iran faces mounting international pressure on nuclear issue. UN considering withdrawal from Congo. Militants bombard French hosted talks in Afghanistan. Obama calls for extension of universal rights to China. US demands release of Burmese dissidents. (...)

17 nov. 2009 | | openDemocracy

Comment

30 Years later in Iran : The tale of two protests ! Death to America vs. Death to the Dictator !

Tale of Two Protests We just marked the Iran hostage crisis 30 years later as in Iran the thirty year anniversary of the storming of the US Embassy and the capture of 54 hostages brought the standard death to America crowd burning American flags. (...)

9 nov. 2009 | | James Joiner

Media

ZDNet apologises to Yahoo for Iran post

Yesterday, “Yahoo gave Iranian authorities the names and emails of some 200,000 Iranian Yahoo users, says a post on the Iranian Students Solidarity blog,” we said in a post, quoting ZDNet’s Richard Koman. “My sources indicate the (...)

12 oct. 2009 | | Jon Newton

International

Iran Isn’t Stalinist Russia

In the October 12 issue of Newsweek, Fareed Zakaria makes a case for containing rather than confronting Iran, partly because he expects “a massive outpouring of support for the Iranian regime” if its nuclear-weapons facilities are attacked by (...)

8 oct. 2009 | | Michael J. Totten

International

Dispatches From The Wars : Iraq Lost. Iran Won. So Where’s That Leave U.S. ?

Long story short, things are looking downright sucky in the two wars that President Obama inherited. Beyond the firestorm over the discovery of a nuclear fuel-processing plant and the threat of sanctions against the slimy Tehran regime is a back story (...)

5 oct. 2009 | | Shaun Mullen

Comment

Obama’s blunder on Iran

We cannot listen to Iran’s Ahmadinejad posturing on the expansion of the Iranian atomic energy program, without recalling Obama’s dramatic reversal on the U.S. land based missile defense system in Europe only days ago. The blunder was not in (...)

28 Sep. 2009 | 1 comment | PacificGatePost

International

Ahmadinejad’s Faux Pas

Among the high ranking authorities of the Islamic Republic of Iran, president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is notorious for his fierce rhetoric and, personal immaturity or even abnormality. His nonesensical paroles, absurd comments, lack of rationality, revolting (...)

28 Sep. 2009 | 1 comment | Jahanshah Rashidian

International

Obama’s decision to use the Aegis because of Iran was obviously a good one and timely!

I am sorry, I do not think I am any different than the rest of you but knowing Iran wants to wipe at least Israel off the map and says they are not developing a nuclear weapon but if they had one would use it on Israel I have to believe while they may (...)

25 Sep. 2009 | | James Joiner

Science & Tech

Iran’s science minister does science the easy way : by plagiarizing

People complain that ministers in the cabinet Iran’s recently selected President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s government will say things so outlandish no one else would even think of saying them, but Declan Butler over at the Nature blog, The Great (...)

24 sep. 2009 | | Effect Measure

Politics

What the Hell is going on ? Iran is taking on the world or are they forming the sides for WW3 or annihilation ?

Demonstrators clash during anti-Israel rally Of course Ahmadinejad has denied that the holocaust occurred before but I really have to wonder what the hell he is up to as Rival Rallies Turn Violent in Tehran and Ahmadinejad continues to Isolate Iran but (...)

22 sep. 2009 | | James Joiner

Comment

Real or Myth

Was Muhammad’s “alleged” first rendezvous with Gabriel, the God’s angel, at Mount Hira near Mecca all about a fictitious tale? Iranians are in a situation to ask themselves such timely questions. Nabuwat or the prophecy of Muhammad (...)

22 Sep. 2009 | 1 comment | Jahanshah Rashidian

Politics

In face of govenment represion, the Iranian working-class shows its heroic strength

On the occasion of Palestine Day in Iran, the Opposition, led by liberal-reformist Mir Hussein Mousavi, and former president Khatami, reared its head once more after months of an apparent bout of silence following the government crackdown on the (...)

22 Sep. 2009 | 1 comment | AllPeopleUnite

International

Rape in the Mullahs’ Prisons

Rape in the Mullahs’ prisons is not an individual decision of an interrogator, as one may commonly believe; it is a systematic process based on a belief system, and for promoting a political agenda. In the Mullahs’ prisons, rapes are often (...)

7 Sep. 2009 | | Jahanshah Rashidian

Politics

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) and its Basij militia set up to protect the ruling system has become the ruling system !

With the horror unleashed by the IRG and Basij and calls for death to opposition leaders by their General a Q & A on the IRG and the Basij is a must read ! There is a question and answer session below that you will want to look at. The more I learn (...)

14 aoû. 2009 | | James Joiner

International

Bolton says Israel will attack Iran by years end, if they do that will unite Iran after Ahmadinejad’s division !

John Bolton : Israel will attack Iran by end of 2009 I find Bolton’s statement disturbing on so many fronts ! I will get to what I have been asserting for years that will come true but first we have been watching something in Iran we have not (...)

11 aoû. 2009 | 1 comment | James Joiner

International

Ahmadinejad sworn in ; Critic worries about Brain Draign and Capital Flight

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was sworn in as president of Iran on Wednesday, to scattered protests. Several hundred protesters were said to have marched around the parliament building where the ceremony took place, despite a heavy police presence. Cell phone and (...)

5 aoû. 2009 | | Juan Cole

Comment

Is Sarah Palin America’s Ahmadinejad ?

See my regular column in Salon.com, "Sarah Palin, meet Mahmoud Ahmadinejad : You two right-wing populists have a surprising amount in common." Excerpt : "Palin portrays herself as the small-town outsider. "I’m not a member of (...)

3 aoû. 2009 | | Juan Cole

International

Khamenei Warns Elite against Public Turmoil

Borzou Daragahi of the LAT explains that Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei warned Monday that the opposition must cease its campaign of civil disobedience. AP argues that the struggle in Iran has moved to a new stage, and is no longer just about street (...)

21 jui. 2009 | | Juan Cole

International

Iranian Student Protests (1999)

Today’s Golden Oldie is a cartoon from July, 1999. Exactly ten years ago this month ...and the news was about Iranian student protests in Teheran !

21 jui. 2009 | | Yaakov Kirschen

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