09 February 2012 | News | John Glaser
A follow-up report from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) on Iran’s nuclear program will be published next month and is expected to be harsher than the last one, which the IAEA released in November. The last IAEA report cobbled together old and questionable intelligence and rose unfounded concerns about a possible military dimension to [...]
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09 February 2012 | News | John Glaser
Israel has financed, trained, and armed Iranian dissident groups in order to carry out terrorist attacks on Iranian soil, according to top U.S. officials. The group, Mujahedeen e-Khalq (MEK), is designated as a terrorist group by the United States and is accused of carrying out terrorist attacks in the past, including on American citizens. With the [...]
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08 February 2012 | News | Jason Ditz
Food Prices Soaring in Iran as US Sanctions Miss Regime and Hit Civilians | US slows flow of cooking oil, not crude
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07 February 2012 | News | John Glaser
Members of the State Department-designated terrorist group known as the Mujahedeen e-Khalq (MEK) have been welcomed into a former U.S. military base in Iraq thanks to an agreement Washington pushed through with Baghdad. An agreement pushed by the U.S. with the Iraqi government delayed the closure of Camp Ashraf, where up to 3,200 members of the MEK [...]
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06 February 2012 | News | Jason Ditz
Obama Imposes Yet More Sanctions on Iranian Central Bank | Executive order to seize Iranian assets
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05 February 2012 | News | Jason Ditz
‘No Decision’ on War Yet, But Obama Vows ‘Lockstep’ Support for Israel | ‘No evidence’ Iran could even theoretically attack US, Obama concedes
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05 February 2012 | News | Jason Ditz
Anti-Iran Sanctions Punishing Iranian Civilians
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05 February 2012 | News | Jason Ditz
Israel-Iran War Would Quickly Spread | War would be ‘catastrophic’ for much of world
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04 February 2012 | News | John Glaser
Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum implied that Iran would drop a nuclear bomb in the United States if it had the capability. At a campaign stop in Missouri, Santorum told a crowd that a nuclear Iran would pose a direct threat, even to Missouri. “Once they have a nuclear weapon, let me assure you, you [...]
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03 February 2012 | News | Jason Ditz
US Frets Israeli Attack on Iran
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