Iran

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 …

Iranian authorities have launched a ferocious crackdown on dissent, targeting labor leaders, universities, the press, women’s rights advocates and Iranian-Americans, The New York Times reported on its website late Saturday.

The United States dismissed on Sunday the idea of a partial suspension of uranium enrichment by Iran, saying that Washington and its allies still insisted on a full suspension.

A ROYAL NAVY helicopter that crashed in flames in Basra last year, killing all five on board, was shot down by a sophisticated surface-to-air missile supplied to Iraqi militants by Iran, according to US officials.