The Syrian crisis continues even though the attempt to have a Libyan-style solution through the Security Council failed with Russia and China vetoing this move. The US, other western powers along with the Arab monarchies…
Category: Syria & Iran Crisis
Harretz: Mossad chief’s secret U.S. visit meant to gauge American response to Israeli attack on Iran
The Daily Beast report follows disclosure of Tamir Pardo’s clandestine meetings in Washington last month during Senate panel hearing. ******************* Mossad chief Tamir Pardo’s secret visit to Washington earlier this month was meant…
Last week, the Tehran Times noted that the Iranian oil bourse will start trading oil in currencies other than the dollar from March 20. This long-planned move is part of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s vision of…
TEHRAN (FNA)- Armed resistance is the best option for defending the Palestinian territories against Zionist attacks and aggressions, Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniya underlined. ************* “Gun is our only response to Zionist regime. In time,…
A researcher says in his recent meeting with Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili, Barack Obama discussed the use of the Eurasian country’s soil for a strike on Iran. “On January 30 US President Barack Obama met…
The “tide of war is receding” is a phrase President Barack Obama has employed ad nauseam—once in his State of the Union address, twice in the course of remarks last month at the unveiling of…
The media coverage of Iran is terrible, and seems to be getting worse–see Glenn Greenwald’s latest piece on the ABC and NBC nightly newscasts. And today the New York Times (2/15/12) tells readers this about…
Have American and Israeli efforts to pin international terrorism on Iran just gone global? A series of bomb attacks apparently on Israeli diplomats in India and Georgia are now being linked with blasts in the Thai capital, Bangkok, for which it is reported that three Iranian men have been arrested. Israel is claiming that the explosive devices recovered in Thailand are the same “sticky bombs” that were used in the attacks in New Delhi and Tbilisi, and that is proof that an Iranian terror network is conducting an assassination campaign against its foreign diplomats. “The attempted terrorist attack in Bangkok proves once again that Iran and its proxies continue to perpetrate terror,” said Ehud Barak, Israel’s defence minister. Thai police have named one of the men injured in the blasts on Tuesday in Bangkok as an Iranian national. It is reported that two other men arrested, one in the Thai capital and another detained after he flew to Malaysia, are also Iranian. The Thai authorities
With all the bluster of late in Western media that President Obama is assiduously working to “restrain” Israel from launching a preemptive attack on Iran, recent developments should put paid the lies of this dog-and-pony show. Last Sunday during an interview with NBC News, the president made it clear that “all options” regarding plans for a joint U.S.-Israeli attack “are on the table.” Far from distancing his government from the strident rhetoric emanating from Tel Aviv, Obama added that the administration is working “in lockstep” with Israel to “prevent Iran from getting a nuclear weapon.” Never mind that unlike Israel, which is estimated to possess upwards of 200 nuclear weapons, as a signatory of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty Iran is perfectly within its rights under international law to enrich uranium for peaceful purposes.
Iran’s Ambassador to the UN Mohammad Khazaei has declared Tehran’s willingness to assume a constructive role in resolving the ongoing Syrian crisis in collaboration with the people of the key Arab country. At a UN…