Israel will dispatch top diplomatic official Major General Amos Gilad to Russia for meetings with high ranking military and diplomatic figures in an attempt to halt a rumored sale of its S-300 anti-aircraft missiles to Iran. The highly advanced system would make...
President-elect Obama speaks on Meet the Press about his Iran position
President Bush once again lashed out at Iran today, declaring their civilian uranium enrichment program a "major threat to peace" and vowing that "for the safety of our people and the peace of the world, America will not allow Iran to develop a nuclear weapon." It...
Last week the United States was reported to have warned Israel against launching any attacks against Iran until after President-elect Barack Obama takes office in January. The report came hot on the heels of the Israeli military's annual security assessment, which...
In statements to reporters today, the Speaker of Iran's Parliament Ali Larijani said official requests from the United States for talks with Iranian parliamentarians are presently being considered, and that it is the general feeling of parliament that "the time has...
There is no shortage of US officials making broad statements accusing the Iranian government of attempting to develop a nuclear weapon, but after last week's International Atomic Energy Agency report on Iran yielded no interesting allegations to latch onto, US...
Amid several bellicose comments about the possibility of an impending Israeli strike against Iran Israeli Defense Ministry officials say they have been contacted by US officials who have asked them to refrain from launching any attacks against Iran until after...
Experts disagree on whether Iran even has the raw material to construct a single nuclear weapon if it chose to do so. They seem to agree, hawkish political sloganeering notwithstanding, that Iran has not diverted any of that material to military ends. Either way, the...
In an interview, former Israeli military chief and potential future Defense Minister General Moshe Ya'alon says that the Iranian revolution must be confronted "immediately," and suggests some rather extreme measures which this confrontation might involve. Firstly an...
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) reports that Iran plans to start installing another 3,000 centrifuges for its uranium enrichment program, which would bring the total amount of centrifuges in operation or in the process of being put into operation to...
