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).