Secretary of State Hillary Clinton met with German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier today, and said that while "President Obama has signaled his intention to support tough and direct diplomacy with Iran," the US intends to punish the Iranian government if it...
Iran Denies Rumors of High-Level US Talks
Reports have been swirling around for the past several days that the United States has been holding high-level but discreet talks with Iran even as the Obama Administration has publicly dismissed rumors of any official efforts to improve relations. Now, Iran too is...
Israeli Envoy: Attack on Gaza a ‘Preintroduction’ to Attack on Iran
After ordering a cameraman to turn off his camera, Israeli Ambassador to Australia Yuval Rotem engaged in a very frank discussion about the recent Israeli war in the Gaza Strip, calling it "a preintroduction" to an attack on Iran that Israel apparently expects within...
White House Dismisses Report of Iran Letter
Yesterday it was reported that the Obama Administration was looking at sending a reply letter to the Iranian government which would signal a willingness to improve ties and perhaps hold direct talks between the two. The move would have been the most significant move...
Draft Letters Hope to Improve US-Iran Ties
ts been nearly three months now since Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad offered a congratulatory letter to then-President-elect Barack Obama. The move was seen as one of the most significant overtures toward better relations between the two countries in years,...
Blockade Stalls Gaza Reconstruction
The fragile truce in the Gaza Strip continues to endure. The Israeli invasion force has left... the bodies have largely been recovered from the rubble that used to be the cities and refugee camps of Gaza. This is the time when a war torn nation would begin its...
Report: Western Diplomats Try to Prevent Iran From Adding to Uranium Supplies
With Iran's Bushehr nuclear power plant scheduled to begin operation sometime this year, the nation's ongoing enrichment program is running low on its supplies of raw uranium, which the gas-graphite reactor requires to be enriched to low levels to use. The Times is...
Report Suggests Iran Tried to Buy Copper, Aluminum
Investigating the persistent, evidence-free assumptions that the Iranian government is involved in some untoward effort to produce something nuclear weapons related, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) revealed today that Iran has purchased tungsten copper, and has been...
Iran Bans Activists From Fighting Israel
Iranian leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei announced today that he would ban Iranians from leaving the country to carry out suicide attacks against Israel. The ban is an attempt to silence calls by Iran's far right to take a direct role in confronting Israel on its attacks...
Israel Arrests Iranian TV Journalist for Reporting Start of Gaza Invasion
Among the first to break the news Saturday that Israel had begun its ground invasion of the Gaza Strip was a journalist working for an Iranian television station. What did this reporter get for is troubles? Arrested, for one. In a nation with a history of at least...


