“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

6 October 2009 The media campaign of half-truths and fabrications over Iran’s nuclear programs stepped up a notch over the weekend. A prominent front-page article in Sunday’s New York Times breathlessly revealed “a confidential analysis” by International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) inspectors who “concluded” that Tehran had sufficient information to... » read this article

Scott Ritter, Fmr. U.N. Weapons Inspector in Iraq (1991-98), discussed his London Guardian op-ed which challenges the idea that Iran is close to producing a nuclear weapon. Washington, DC. It was very much a moment of high drama. Barack Obama, fresh from his history-making stint hosting the UN security council,... » read this article

2 October 2009 Following international talks in Geneva yesterday, US President Obama repeated Washington’s threats against Iran, warning that the US was “prepared to move towards increased pressure” if Tehran failed to take “swift action” to meet its nuclear obligations. The talks involved senior officials of the so-called P5+1—the US,... » read this article

In his latest column for the New Statesman, John Pilger compares the current drum-beating for war against Iran, based on a fake "nuclear threat", with the manufacture of a sense of false crisis that led to invasion of Iraq and the deaths of 1.3 million people. In 2001, the Observer... » read this article

Thursday is a fateful day for the world, as the US, other members of the United Nations Security Council, and Germany meet in Geneva with Iran in a bid to resolve outstanding issues. Although Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad had earlier attempted to put the nuclear issue off the bargaining table,... » read this article

Analysis finds holes in US Iran story: US may have pretended to know about facility. The story line that dominated media coverage of the second Iranian uranium enrichment facility last week was the official assertion that U.S. intelligence had caught Iran trying to conceal a “secret” nuclear facility. But an... » read this article

30 September 2009 In an editorial published Sunday, the Financial Times of London joined the media onslaught against Iran, calling its rulers “cheats and deceivers” who “cannot be remotely trusted” in relation to the country’s nuclear program. If the newspaper is committed to exposing “cheats and deceivers,” why has it... » read this article

The Turkish president has condemned Western countries' focus on Iran's nuclear program, stressing that the world should deal with Israel's nuclear weapons instead. Turkey's "Radikal" newspaper on Sunday reported that Recep Tayyip Erdogan's strong comments against Israel's nuclear program was similar to his "one minute" stance in Davos in January... » read this article

A few random thoughts and observations on the latest developments with Iran: How big’s a mountain? It’s a clandestine nuclear facility under construction “inside a mountain“. The only adjective that got left out was “deep,” yet knowing that detail might be the key to knowing exactly what “very heavily protected”... » read this article