Iranian negotiation says he would continue resisting int’l community demands on nuclear program if elected president. By JPOST.COM Iran does not recognize Israel as a state or the “red line” determined by Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, Iranian nuclear negotiator and candidate in the Iranian presidential election Saeed Jalili told the Financial Times on Thursday. The … Continue reading »
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Radioactive Regime Iran and its apologists
The list is long of Occidentals who’ve fallen for Persia. This isn’t surprising. Compared with Arab lands save Egypt, Iran has a longer history—Hegel described the Persians as “the first Historic people”—and a more layered modern identity. Compared with the Turks, whose indefatigable martial spirit is reified in the unadorned stone power of Istanbul’s magnificent … Continue reading »
The Middle East’s coming proxy war
Will a nuclear-ambitious Iran stand alone against a possible joint US-Israeli strike? The certain answer is no Bassem Aly Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, left, chats with the Syrian President, Bashar al-Assad, and the Iranian President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, before an official dinner in Damascus in 2010 (Photo: Reuters) The year 2008 saw the first … Continue reading »
US Senate: Will back Israeli attack on Iran
[Congressional Bills 113th Congress] [From the U.S. Government Printing Office] [S. Res. 65 Introduced in Senate (IS)] 113th CONGRESS 1st Session S. RES. 65 Strongly supporting the full implementation of United States and international sanctions on Iran and urging the President to continue to strengthen enforcement of sanctions legislation. _______________________________________________________________________ IN THE SENATE OF THE … Continue reading »
Explaining Bibi’s Red Line (With a Bit of H.S. Chem.)
Uranium enrichment: Reaching the 20% U235 is the uphill-tough-sledding part. To then go from 20% U235 to 90% U235 is really the downhill-easy-run part. And Israel is a one bomb country.by Mark Langfan This essay will attempt1) to explain what Bibi’s Iranian “Red-Line” actually means, 2) to show why Bibi’s Iranian Red-Line is reasonable, and … Continue reading »
Khamenei aide says “total upheaval in the Middle East” will bring the Mahdi
From AEI Critical Threats: Representative of Supreme Leader to the IRGC, Hojjat al-Eslam Ali Saidi addressed the coming of the Mahdi [12th Shia Imam]: “The fourth way [of bringing about the arrival of the Mahdi] is by preparing upheaval in the Middle East and so long as there is not total upheaval in Middle East … Continue reading »
Leftists Rally to Support Iran’s Genocidal Quest for Nukes
Far-left activists Ramsey Clark and Sara Flounders, co-founders of the International Action Center (IAC), have initiated a petition entitled “Hands Off Iran,” supporting the genocidal regime’s right to maintain a nuclear program. The petition-signing event, described by the IAC as a “gala celebration for Ramsey Clark’s 85th birthday and the 20th anniversary of the International Action Center,” took … Continue reading »
Bibi’s Bomb: The Iranian Threat Is No Joke
Alan Johnson Using only a red felt-tip pen and a cartoon that seemed straight out of Danger Mouse or Wacky Races, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stood on the podium of the United Nations General Assembly and drew Israel’s red line in the face of the grave strategic threat facing his country. If Iran enriched … Continue reading »
North Korea: Next step is a nuclear test
(Reuters) – North Korea’s next step after rattling the world by putting a satellite into orbit for the first time will likely be a nuclear test, the third conducted by the reclusive and unpredictable state. A nuclear test would be the logical follow-up to Wednesday’s successful rocket launch, analysts said. The North’s 2009 test came … Continue reading »
#Iran safeguards report November 2012
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Diplomats claim Iranian nuclear program is on verge of breakthrough
Tehran may be only days from being able to create weapons-grade uranium VIENNA (AP) — Iran is on the threshold of being able to create weapons-grade uranium at a plant it has heavily fortified against Israeli attack, diplomats told The Associated Press on Thursday, calling into question an Israeli claim that Iran had slowed its … Continue reading »
#Iran: We Lie to International Inspectors on Our Nuke Program
Western countries have long suspected Iran of misleading international inspectors over the extent of its nuclear program – and now a top Iranian official has admitted as much. In an interview with the London-based Arabic Al-Hayat daily, Fereydoun Abbasi, head of Iran’s Atomic Energy Agency, said that Tehran had on occasion “misled” International Atomic Energy … Continue reading »
The Dangers of Accepting Iran as a Nuclear Threshold State
It has already been noted many times that one key difference between Israel and the U.S. over Iran is that Washington can wait far longer than Israel before it decides that it has no choice but to use force in order to destroy the Iranian nuclear program. In the simplest of terms, while the U.S. … Continue reading »
The Most Dangerous Man in the World
By REUEL MARC GERECHT/ One of the startling cultural disconnects in studying Iran is how unimpressive the officials of the Islamic Republic usually are. Reading Persian history inclines one to expect Iranians to be highly cultured and nuanced, delicately balanced between a conservative religious faith and a love of refinement and pleasure. Remember the Persian … Continue reading »
Potential Change in Iran’s Nuclear Fatwa?
by Lyle Bacaltos/ugust 2, 2012 Download PDF An official Iranian statement released on August 9, 2005 at a meeting with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) claimed that Ayatollah Ali Khamenei issued a fatwa forbidding the production, stockpiling, and use of nuclear weapons. Recent news reports have raised the question whether the fatwa has changed. … Continue reading »
Iran May be Building a Third Enrichment Plant
By Elad Benari/ Iran may be building a third gas centrifuge enrichment plant, according to a report on Monday by the Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS). The report, posted on ISIS’ website, notes that the question of whether Iran is building a third plant “has been on the minds of Iran watchers in … Continue reading »
