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Japan’s private sector banks have restricted loans to Iran and rejected a request to pay for oil imports in currencies other than dollars, the Financial Times quoted banking and official sources as saying.

Friends of Free Iran inter-parliamentary group in a statement today warned against maintaining the People’s Mojahedin of Iran (PMOI) on the terror list by the Council of Ministers of Environment, describing it as a legal catastrophe and a political scandal.

THE conventional wisdom says that we have two choices in confronting and containing Iranian nuclear ambitions – United Na tions sanctions and diplomacy, or a military strike to knock out key nuclear sites.

Ever since Iran’s nuclear issue has been handed to the United Nations Security Council for punitive actions, crisis in the region has been flaring up at periods, each time the case is opened or closed for review.

Several conflicts of various intensities are raging in the Middle East. But a bigger war, involving more states — Israel, Lebanon, Syria, Iran, the Palestinian Authority and perhaps the United States and others — is growing more likely every day, beckoned by the sense that America and Israel are in …

Iranians gathered on Thursday outside the British Parliament calling on the British government to respect the democratic rights of the main Iranian opposition group, the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI).

Does Iran know how sensitive the current circumstances in the region are? Does it know that the scenario of what happened in Iraq during the era of the deposed, executed President Saddam Hussein is about to be repeated on the “noble” Iranian people, thanks to the policy of Ahmadinejad, who …

The argument for negotiating with Tehran’s mullahs rests upon several flawed presumptions: 1. Iran’s regime is stable and the Iran’s rulers have sufficient power to suppress opposition. 2. The West is willing to offer to Iran something that Iran wants. 3. Iran’s ayatollahs are willing to compromise their ideological aspirations. …

Yesterday, the Afghan President, Hamid Karzai, was outraged at his people getting killed in the streets of Kabul and other cities by what he called foreigners.

Norman Podhoretz, Editor-at-Large of Commentary Magazine, published an essay in the June 2007 issue of Commentary Magazine and republished it in the Wall Street Journal on May 30, 2007 (“The Case for Bombing Iran”), in which he declared his fervent prayer that President George W. Bush would choose to bomb …