In an interview today on the Charlie Rose show, Admiral Michael Mullen cautioned that a unilateral Israeli attack on Iran could endanger the stability entire region, leading to an escalation that could imperil American forces in the Gulf region. Then Mullen spoke...
President Barack Obama followed in the footsteps of his predecessors today, renewing the annual sanctions that ban US companies from trading or investing in Iran. Obama cited the "continuing and unusual and extraordinary threat" posed by the Iranian government, which...
Afghanistan, Iran and Pakistan have reportedly conducted their first joint anti-narcotics operation this week along the three nations' mutual borders. The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime said that the operation resulted in a seizure and the arrests of...
Speaking at an Israeli cabinet meeting today, Military Intelligence chief Major-General Amos Yadlin declared that Iran "has crossed the technological threshold, so that reaching a military nuclear ability is only a matter of matching the strategy to the goal of...
Today, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton proposed a high-level international conference on Afghanistan, which would be sponsored by the United Nations and would seek to arrive at a "common set of principles, perhaps embodied in a chairman's statement, on a common way...
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton lashed out at the Iranian government today, declaring them a threat to the Middle East, Europe and Russia. Clinton also claimed that "it is clear that Iran intends to interfere with the internal affairs of all of these people."...
A report issued today by the Washington Institute for Near East Policy (WINEP) warned that the Israeli government believes that it still retains the ability to destroy Iran's nuclear program with a unilateral attack, and as the international community's diplomatic...
The reports yesterday that the Obama Administration has offered to abandon the missile defense shield in Eastern Europe in return for Russian help in diplomatic measures against the Iranian government were publicly responded to by Russian President Dmitry Medvedev...
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says she has serious doubts that Iran would respond to the Obama Administration's interest to engage in diplomacy on its nuclear program, and that "our eyes are wide open on Iran." Secretary Clinton apparently did not believe that...
Russian newspapers are reporting this evening that President Barack Obama has offered to abandon America's controversial missile defense shield program in Eastern Europe in return for Russian help in stopping Iran's civilian nuclear program. Such a move had been...
