Let’s just say that the other 95 percent of the world is filled with disobedient ingrates who can only be stopped by stuffing the Pentagon’s maw with money we don’t have
The country’s top cleric was marking the occasion when Iran’s air force gave its support to revolutionary leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, a key event which led to the toppling of the US-backed shah on February 11, 1979
Tehran has repeatedly called for the removal of all weapons of mass destruction from across the globe
U.S. intelligence has concluded that the document published recently by the Times of London, which purportedly describes an Iranian plan to do experiments on what the newspaper described as a “neutron initiator” for an atomic weapon, is a fabrication, according to a former Central Intelligence Agency official.
Federal prosecutors took steps Thursday to seize four U.S. mosques and a Fifth Avenue skyscraper owned by a nonprofit Muslim organization long suspected of being secretly controlled by the Iranian government.
It will simulate the firing of long-range missiles from Israel’s foes Iran, Syria and Lebanon, and towards the end will include a “live” missile interception, the Yediot Aharonot daily said.
The West will give Iran until the end of the year to prove its nuclear programme will not be used to manufacture weapons.
Iran on Monday test-fired its two long-range missiles which it says could hit targets in arch-foe Israel, as the Revolutionary Guards staged war games for the second straight day.
Iran said Saturday it will allow U.N. nuclear inspectors to examine its newly revealed, still unfinished uranium enrichment facility as world criticism mounted over the underground site that was developed secretly.
The White House and other U.S. officials reacted to the “lie†remark, which also was featured in other Western news accounts, with understandable outrage. However, Iran’s Press TV reported that “Ahmadinejad did not deny the Holocaust, but raised some questions about the matter, asking Western powers for a logical answer.â€
But perhaps they didn’t need to point this out, after all, as anyone with political acumen has already come to the conclusion that Bush and Obama are like competing brands of cola; both were packaged and sold by elitist corporate interests and both are equally bad for you.
Cautious welcome in Russia, which vehemently opposed the scheme, but dismay from Poland and Czech Republic
Secret updates to White House challenge European and Israeli assessments.
Mohamed ElBaradei, outgoing chief of the International Atomic Energy Agency, has called the Iranian threat “hyped,” saying there is no proof the Islamic republic will soon have nuclear weapons.
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The head of Iran’s nuclear organisation, Gholam Reza Aghazadeh, has resigned, according to the Isna news agency.
The report said the nuclear chief had submitted a letter of resignation to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad nearly three weeks ago.
It was not immediately clear what triggered the resignation.
Iran says its nuclear programme is for peaceful purposes, denying Western [...]
Germany’s BND foreign intelligence agency believes Iran is capable of producing and testing an atomic bomb within six months, much sooner than most analysts estimate, according to a report in German weekly Stern.
The plane’s tail burst into flames in the air and the aircraft circled as if looking for a place to land before it crashed, an unidentified witness told the semi-official ISNA news agency.
A defeated candidate in Iran’s disputed election has said the Islamic system may face “collapse” unless it embraces change, in unusually blunt language from a prominent establishment figure.
Discussions on Iranian politics has shifted to a different level after a group of clerics declared the June 12 poll results illegitimate. The unresolved political turmoil leads to ongoing controversy.
