‘Nuclear assassinations disgrace IAEA’
‘Nuclear assassinations disgrace IAEA’
The assassination of Iranian scientists has disgraced the UN nuclear agency as the body has provided Western intelligence agencies with confidential information on Iran’s nuclear experts, a political analyst tells Press TV.
Anti-US chants as slain Iran nuclear expert buried
Thousands of mourners chanted “Death to Israel” and “Death to America” on Friday during the funeral of a slain nuclear expert whom Iranian officials accuse the two nations of killing in a bomb blast this week as part of a secret operation to stop Iran’s nuclear program.
Iranian paper calls for retaliation against Israel
Israel is pushing U.S. toward Iran war, Russian official says
Iran: The Neocons Are At It Again
The same neocons who persuaded George W. Bush and crew to, in Ron Paul’s inimitable words, “lie their way into invading Iraq” in 2003, are beating the drums of war more loudly these days to attack Iran. It is remarkable how many of these war-mongers are former draft dodgers who wanted other Americans to fight the war in Vietnam.
Iran and the Terrorism game
In the few venues which yesterday denounced as “Terrorism” the ongoing assassinations of Iranian scientists, there was intense backlash against the invocation of that term. That always happens whenever “Terrorism” is applied to acts likely undertaken by Israel, the U.S. or its allies…
Russia warns EU over Iran oil sanctions
A senior Russian official warns the European Union not to join US oil sanctions against Iran because the measure will have adverse economic consequences for the bloc’s member states.
Unemployment and Rising Prices: The Face of Iran Sanctions
Sanctions Harm Private Industry, Leave Populace Seeking Government Aid
Top Iran leader is warned by U.S. on strait threat
Use of force tops agenda on Iran
How close is the west getting to all-out conflict with Iran? As 2012 gets under way, the question is right at the top of the international security agenda.
EU’s Iran Oil Embargo Said Likely to Be Delayed Six Months
Japan joins US, EU in Iranian oil embargo
No proof of nuclear bomb development by Iran – Patrushev
Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev has said that Western countries have no evidence that Tehran is trying to create a nuclear weapon.
Oprah: No Huge Endorsement Event For Obama This Time
Oprah Winfrey tells CNN she still supports President Obama, however she will not do a large endorsement event like she did during the 2008 campaign cycle.
Moore Warns Obama: “There Are Enough Pissed Off People That Will Go Somewhere Else”
Michael Moore comes out swinging at President Obama at a Tavis Smiley forum on poverty in America.
N Korea signals it’s open to US disarmament deal
Bahrain protests: Police use tear gas to break up march
Security police have used tear gas and stun grenades to break up an anti-government march in Bahrain’s capital, Manama.
Video : US Marines Urinating On Corpses
Taliban set terms as US pushes for talks
Group says it will step up “political efforts” but not give up armed struggle as US prepares way for Afghan peace talks.
Assessing the Afghan war: Guess what? We aren’t winning
Russia Says NATO, Persian Gulf Nations Plan to Seek No-Fly Zone for Syria
Russia received information that members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and some Persian Gulf countries are preparing military intervention in Syria, the head of the Russian Security Council said.
Yemen’s rival forces given two-day deadline to demilitarize
A Yemeni committee of security and military agencies has given rival forces two days to remove military barricades and gunmen from the capital Sana’a as part of an effort to re-establish security in the country, reported state news agency SABA Thursday.
U.S. drone strike kills six militants in North Waziristan region of Pakistan
Syria: Camera crew captures attack that killed French journalist
Syrian TV has released footage of the attack captured by a camera crew in which French journalist Gilles Jacquier was amongst at least eight people killed in the Syrian city of Homs.
Russian weapons ship arrives in Syria – paper
Supreme Court upholds ban on Palestinians living with Israeli spouses
A legal challenge to a law that bans Palestinians from living in Israel with spouses who are Israeli citizens was rejected by a panel of Supreme Court justices yesterday.
Iranian Scientist Killed in Third Assassination
Terrorists Kill Commerce Deputy of Iran’s Nuclear Enrichment Site
An Iranian university professor and deputy director at Natanz enrichment facility was killed in a terrorist bomb blast in a Northern Tehran neighborhood on Wednesday morning.
More murder of Iranian scientists: still terrorism?
Several days ago I referenced a controversy that arose in 2007 when the law professor and right-wing blogger Glenn “Instapundit” Reynolds criticized President Bush for not doing enough to stop Iran’s nuclear program and then advocated that the U.S. respond by murdering that nation’s religious leaders and nuclear scientists.
Iranian Scientist Killed in Third Assassination Targeting Nuclear Program
An Iranian nuclear scientist was killed in a Tehran bomb blast, state media reported, in at least the third assassination targeting the nation’s atomic program that the U.S. and Israel have vowed to halt.
Bomb kills Iran nuclear scientist as crisis mounts
US denies killing Iran nuclear scientist with magnetic bomb
‘Western powers and their allies appear to be relying on covert war tactics to try to delay and degrade Iran’s nuclear advancement,’ security expert says
‘IAEA leaked secret info to Iran enemy’
A senior lawmaker says assassination of Iranian scientist Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan proves that the confidential information provided to international bodies by Iran has been leaked to the country’s enemies.
Iran says Fordo uranium enrichment site runs under IAEA watch
China unbowed by US pressure over Iranian oil
US Treasury Secretary fails to persuade China to back sanctions against Iranian oil industry during talks in Beijing.
Iranian president arrives in Cuba; U.S. warns of ‘dangerous alliance’
Ahmadinejad’s Latin America tour seen as effort side-step international tensions and find new markets as the European Union considers an outright embargo on Iranian oil.
After Iran, Venezuela?
“The build-up against Venezuela that began during the George W. Bush administration has rapidly accelerated under Obama.”
War Plan Iran: The US Finally Admits Its Criminal Bankruptcy
Officially, America is now bankrupt: financially, economically, politically – and morally. Its criminal aggression towards Iran is just one of many parts of a jigsaw that add up to a clear and grotesque picture of what the United States of America now represents in the 21st Century world.
George Lucas: Hollywood Wouldn’t Back My Film About Tuskegee Airmen Due to All Black Cast
Star Wars creator George Lucas said Monday that Hollywood studios refused to back his new film Red Tails – about World War II’s Tuskegee Airmen – because the cast was all black.
Obama sending 5 US military officers to S. Sudan
President Barack Obama is sending five American military officers to South Sudan amid recent outbreaks of violence in the newly independent African nation.
Russia sends warship to Syria to prevent Libyan scenario
Russia has sent yet another warship to Syria in support of its leader Bashar al-Assad and to show of solidarity with this embattled leader.
UAE sends 12 more monitors to observe Syrian regime
The UAE has sent 12 more monitors to join the controversial Arab League observer mission in Syria.
Report: Eight killed in attack on pro-regime rally in Syria
At least eight people, including a Belgian reporter, were killed Wednesday when shells hit a pro-regime rally in the central Syrian province of Homs, Syrian Al Dunia Television reported.
Al-Assad blames ‘external conspiracies’ for Syrian violence
Deaths in Nigeria as tensions sharpen
Eight people killed in the north and an Islamic school burnt down in the south, as a fuel strike rattles the country.
US gave grant to Pakistani Muslim group which demonstrated in favor of governor’s killer
Afghan government accuses US of torture and false imprisonment
Venezuela’s Chavez welcomes ally Ahmadinejad
Iran court sentences former U.S. Marine to death
An Iranian court on Monday convicted an Iranian-American man of spying for the CIA and sentenced him to death, Iranian state news media reported Monday.
Iran arrests ‘several US spies’ trying to disrupt elections
Iran’s secret services claim to have arrested several people on charges of spying for the US and seeking to disrupt the country’s parliamentary elections.
Iran Trumpets Nuclear Ability at a Second Location
Iran’s top nuclear official announced this weekend that the country was on the verge of starting production at its second major uranium enrichment site, in a defiant declaration that its nuclear program would continue despite new international sanctions restricting its oil revenue.
The New York Times misleading public on Iran
The paper has made faulty allegations about Iran’s nuclear programme without running proper corrections.
Venezuela’s Chavez welcomes ally Ahmadinejad
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez dismissed a U.S. warning to avoid close ties with Iran on Sunday, denouncing what he said was Washington’s attempt to dominate the world as he welcomed the Iranian president to the Latin American nation.
Beijing rejects sanctions on Iranian oil
Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner, visiting Beijing this week, is expected to press Chinese leaders to reduce the country’s oil imports from Iran. But Geithner is likely to find Beijing resistant to putting financial pressure on the government in Tehran.
Iran on edge over upcoming elections
Parliamentary elections in March seen as the most sensitive in the history of the Islamic republic.
U.S. expels Venezuelan diplomat in Miami
Venezuela will not recognize World Bank ruling in Exxon case
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said on Sunday that his country would not recognize any ruling by a World Bank tribunal in a multibillion-dollar arbitration case with Exxon Mobil Corp.
Perry: “I would send troops back into Iraq”
Rick Perry said he would send U.S. troops back to Iraq at a Republican presidential debate in New Hampshire on Saturday.
Syria opposition split raises calls for foreign intervention
Arab League keeps Syria monitors, despite criticism
Cairo – The Arab League agreed Sunday to keep an observer mission in Syria, after the observers reportedly criticized Damascus for failing to comply with a peace plan to end 10 months of bloodshed in the country.
Western oil firms remain as US exits Iraq
The end of the US military occupation does not mean Iraqis have full control of their oil.
Iraq: A country in shambles
Despite promises made for improvements, Iraq’s economy and infrastructure are still a disaster.
Iraqi Torture Scandal Touches Highest Levels of NATO
A scandal unfolding in Denmark over the transfer of Iraqi prisoners by Danish forces to Iraq authorities, even as they knew they would be tortured, threatens to implicate the current Secretary General of NATO Anders Fogh Rasmussen, formerly prime minister of Denmark from 2001-2009.
Obama’s New Military Strategy Doesn’t Add Up
President Barack Obama ordered up yet another strategic review last year. This one explicitly aimed at bringing the nation’s military posture into line with something we can afford.
US Eyes Arms Sales to South Sudan
Obama Claims Arming Unstable Regime ‘Promotes World Peace’
SPLA Hails Obama Decision Allowing South Sudan to Buy US Weapons
The United States President Barack Obama issued a memorandum on Friday notifying the Secretary of State and Congress that he is adding South Sudan to the list of countries eligible to buy weapons from the US.
Kenyan jets kill ’60 or more’ Somali Islamist insurgents
Nigeria: Adamawa Killings Continue
BARELY 24 hours after about 29 persons were killed in Mubi, Adamawa State, gunmen, yesterday, struck again in the state, leaving three other persons dead.
Nigeria’s oil disasters are met by silence
The global media have had little to say on Nigeria’s latest oil spill and the hundreds of others that have destroyed so many lives.
China planning military base in Pakistan, Indian report says
China slams US military adventurism
China says the accusations leveled against the country in the new United States defense strategy are “groundless” and aim to counter the Asian country’s growing power.