The scheduled start of drilling this month by China National Petroleum Company (CNPC) in Iran’s South Pars gas field could be both a harbinger and explanation of much wider geopolitical developments. First of all, the $5 billion project – signed last year after years of foot dragging by western energy... » read this article

The Islamic Republic of Iran busted a spy racket linked with the US intelligence agency CIA and arrested 30 people for operating an internet network to gather secret data. In 2006, America's Central Intelligence Agency, CIA, drew up a plan for destabilizing Iran and the Congress allocated a 400 million... » read this article

Around the world, anti-war activists are preparing for major protests this spring to oppose the continuing U.S.-led occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan.  Meanwhile, a storm of developments is dramatically increasing tensions between the United States and the Islamic Republic of Iran.  In response, the Campaign Against Sanctions and Military Intervention... » read this article

Iran insists the US was backing the leader of an armed Sunni group heading an insurgency in the country who was captured earlier this week. Washington denies the claims. Abdolmalek Rigi says he was on his way to the Manas air base in Kyrgyzstan to meet with a US official... » read this article

"Why is Iran the target of so much rage," former CIA officer Philip Giraldi asks, "even though [Iran] has not threatened the United States or any vital American interest?" Israel and its friends' influence over Congress and the media is surely a large part of the answer. How else can... » read this article

The coup d'etat government of Iran must step down and the constitution must be rewritten according to the wishes of the people. That is what the people of Iran are demanding on the 31st anniversary of their 1979 revolution. For the eighth straight month, hundreds and thousands of Iranians filled... » read this article

U.S. Ambassador Christopher Hill’s warning on February 18 that it could take months to form a new government in Baghdad after the Iraqi elections, scheduled for March 7, and that in turn could mean considerable political turmoil in Iraq, and the warnings of observers and experts as well as officials... » read this article

Describing the events in Iran yesterday, CNN correspondent Ivan Watson made a point of mentioning that free food and drink were handed out in Azadi Square to those celebrating the 31st anniversary of the revolution – as if the treats were part of a cunning ploy by the Ahmadinejad government.... » read this article

UPDATE: The Associated Press has pulled the original article by George Jahn and it is being replaced by a more benign article called “Iran to stop enrichment if given nuclear fuel” by Nasser Karimi. (2/9/2010) In a widely-circulated article which has further fueled Western hysteria about the prospect of an... » read this article

“For wicked men are found among my people; they lurk like fowlers lying in wait. They set a trap; they catch men” - Jeremiah 5:26-29, Hebrew Old Testament “Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence. Any man who has once... » read this article

Iran has been simmering since demonstrations erupted after Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the Iranian president, won the disputed presidential elections in June. The pro-reformist opposition called the vote fraudulent, but Iran's government retorted that the opposition protesters were doing the bidding of western powers - especially the US, UK and Israel. The... » read this article

New revelations about two documents leaked to The Times of London to show that Iran is working on a "nuclear trigger" mechanism have further undermined the credibility of the document the newspaper had presented as evidence of a continuing Iranian nuclear weapons programme. A columnist for the Times has acknowledged... » read this article

In a New York Times op-ed this week that advocates bombing Iran, the author, Alan J. Kuperman, director of the Nuclear Proliferation Prevention Program at the University of Texas at Austin, begins by suggesting that President Barack Obama should “sigh in relief that Iran has rejected his nuclear deal”. In... » read this article

The images coming out of Iran in recent days have spoken for themselves, and I don’t have much to add to what others have said. It is nearly impossible for anyone — let alone an outsider half a world away — to predict what the outcome of the protests will... » read this article

Instead of the breakthrough he had hoped for in nuclear diplomacy with Iran, Barack Obama has allowed himself to be painted into a corner. But so, too, have his Iranian counterparts, with neither side now capable of breaking the deadlock. Mr Obama, under pressure from sceptics of engagement in Washington,... » read this article

Editor's Note: Regarding "soft war", discussed below, valuable insight for the following report is provided in Eva Golinger's article describing the U.S. intervention strategy, "Smart Power": A Definitive Report on the Crisis in Honduras: A Victory for “Smart Power” - Les Blough, Editor   TEHRAN, Dec. 7 (Xinhua) -- A... » read this article

“President Ahamadinejad’s foray into Latin America last November was a huge success and he won support for his country’s nuclear programme and expanded Iran’s reach in Latin America in a three country good-will tour of Brazil, Bolivia and Venezuela.” (December 03, Colombo, Sri Lanka Guardian) The saga of Iran’s nuclear... » read this article

Edited by Joanne Hanrahan Original Article (Farsi) In its 2010 budget bill, the U.S. House of Representatives Armed Forces Committee requires the Secretary of Defense to prepare a report on Iran’s major security and military strategy and submit it to the U.S. Congress. The secretary is also charged with finding... » read this article

The Historical & Strategic Context of Western Terrorism in The Gulf (Part 1) From one of the world’s foremost authorities in terrorism and conflict analysis, this masterful study - published by Voltaire Network in two parts - dissects the structure of Western policy in the Middle East. Based on an... » read this article

Hundreds of thousands of Iranians held rallies on Wednesday across the country to mark the 30th anniversary of the seizure of the U.S. embassy in Tehran by Iranian students during the 1979 Islamic Revolution. In Tehran, the demonstrators gathered outside the former U.S. embassy compound in the center of the... » read this article