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Israel’s military may have negotiated access to strategically placed air bases in Azerbaijan that could be used in an attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities, US officials have said. The unconfirmed report in Foreign Policy magazine suggested deepening co-operation between Israel and the Caucasian republic, which shares a border with Iran. It said that Israel and [...]
March 30th, 2012 | Filed under Middle East,News Watch | Read More »

U.S. intelligence analysts continue to believe that there is no hard evidence indicating Iran’s decision to build a nuclear bomb, The New York Times reported on Saturday. Unlike the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog saying on Friday that Iran had accelerated its uranium enrichment program, U.S. intelligence agencies believe otherwise, The Times cited unnamed current and [...]
February 26th, 2012 | Filed under Middle East,News Watch | Read More »

A prominent political analyst says the US has engaged in an act of war through its efforts to impose an oil embargo against Iran as well as targeting the trade of other nations with the Islamic Republic. China also condemned the US-led unilateral sanctions imposed against Iran, saying the American establishment is seeking to internationalize [...]
January 15th, 2012 | Filed under Middle East,News Watch | Read More »

An Iranian university professor was killed by a bomb placed on his car by a motorcyclist in Tehran on Wednesday, a city official told the Fars news agency, blaming Israel for an attack he said was similar to ones targeting nuclear scientists a year ago. Iran said Israel and the United States were behind a [...]
January 11th, 2012 | Filed under Middle East,News Watch | Read More »

Two former CIA analysts have advised US President Barack Obama to immediately put an end to the “torrent of war propaganda against Iran” as this will lead to the destruction of Israel and devastation of world economy. Ray McGovern and Elizabeth Murray wrote on the consortiumnews.com that Obama’s “repeated use of the bromide that ‘everything [...]
January 1st, 2012 | Filed under Middle East,News Watch | Read More »

TEHRAN, Iran – Iran backed down Saturday from its earlier threats to block the strategic oil route through the Strait of Hormuz, apparently confirming U.S. assertions that such threats packed more “bluster” than bite. Talk of blocking the strategic oil route through the Strait of Hormuz is a discussion of the past, a commander of [...]
January 1st, 2012 | Filed under Middle East,News Watch | Read More »

TEHRAN – A senior Iranian commander said Thursday that Washington was “in no position” to give orders to Iran when it comes to the Strait of Hormuz, as tensions continued to rise between the countries over the key oil transit channel. Brigadier General Hossein Salami, the deputy commander of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, said that “the [...]
December 29th, 2011 | Filed under Middle East,News Watch | Read More »

In what seems to be nothing but US-style barefaced arrogance, President Barack Obama has demanded the return of a spy drone which violated the airspace of the Islamic Republic but which was to the humiliation of the US officials downed by the Iranian army. The top-secret RQ-170 Sentinel drone, which was used by Washington as [...]
December 14th, 2011 | Filed under Middle East,News Watch,Perspective,Viewpoint | Read More »