Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak said Friday that Iran’s nuclear program poses a danger that extends beyond Israel.
Under Ahmadinejad’s government increasing numbers of journalists have been imprisoned and publications closed down
More than 100 journalists and bloggers have been imprisoned in Iran since the disputed election last June, making it the world’s leading enemy of free expression. At least 65 remain in jail – more than any single country has imprisoned since 1996.
Two of those imprisoned, Mehrdad Rahimi and Kohyar Goodarzi, have been labelled “mohareb” (enemies of God) – a heresy charge punishable by death under the Iranian law. One other journalist is on death row.
Recently, the world’s leading international journalists’ and other human rights organisations announced a mega-campaign for the…
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Thursday that a new Middle East — one “without Zionists and without colonialists” — was quickly emerging as regional bonds grow stronger by the day.
The presidents of Syria and Iran put on show of unity
Ahmadinejad and Assad accuse the Americans of trying to dominate Middle East
Iran and Syria put on a show of defiant unity today, scorning US efforts to break up their alliance and warning Israel not to risk attacking either of them.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the Iranian president, flew to Damascus for talks with Bashar al-Assad days after the US appointed an ambassador to Syria after a five-year gap – a move seen by some as the start of a diplomatic thaw.
“The Americans want to dominate the region but they feel Iran and Syria are preventing that,” Ahmadinejad said during a press conference with Assad.
“We tell them that instead of interfering in the region’s affairs to pack their things and…
If the west really wants to support the green movement it should shower the country in free satellite internet access
Washington and other western capitals seem to lack an efficient policy to support Iran’s protest movement. They wish that the so-called green movement could replace the current military-messianic alliance at the country’s helm with a more reasonable interlocutor that would be amenable to solve Iran’s nuclear dossier, and co-operate in other arenas, chiefly Iraq and Afghanistan.
However, thanks to a number of systemic changes, direct logistical, financial or military assistance cannot be contemplated. Yet, there is one option that might prove a highly efficient way of…
Iranian authorities have arrested the leader of a Sunni militant group blamed for dozens of attacks inside the country, state media said Tuesday.
In a short letter to the IAEA, Iran makes clear what it will take to stop its rush to enrich more highly enriched uranium
This is a letter to the IAEA from Iran’s representative in Vienna, Ali Asghar Soltanieh, obtained by The Guardian, that casts some light on Tehran’s game plan. Sent ten days after the production of 20% enriched uranium began for the first time at the pilot centrifuge plant in Natanz, it demands the right to either buy 20% uranium fuel rods, or to carry out a simultaneous exchange, swapping rods for Iranian LEU.
Soltanieh’s letter makes no mention of the months of negotiations last year in which Iran initially agreed to send its LEU abroad to be turned into the 20% rods…
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Iran has moved almost all its enriched uranium out of underground storage and into plain view. But why?
They were many striking elements in the new International Atomic Energy Agency report on Iran, not least its blunt language on the “possible military dimensions” of the Iranian programme. But the strangest part of it was this:
On 14 February 2010, Iran, in the presence of Agency inspectors, moved approximately 1950 kg of low enriched UF6 from FEP to the PFEP feed station. The Agency inspectors sealed the cylinder containing the material to the feed station.
That means that Iran took 94% of its entire stock of low enriched uranium (LEU) from the huge underground tunnels and chambers of its…
Ban is latest development in dispute between Iran and other Arab states over a waterway in the Middle East
Iran’s enthusiastic guardianship of its sovereignty appears to have extended to international air travel.
From now on, the Iranian government has announced, any airline which refers to the waterway between Iran and Arab states as the Arabian Gulf rather than the Persian Gulf will be banned from its airspace.
“The airlines of the southern Persian Gulf countries flying to Iran are warned to use the term Persian Gulf on their electronic display boards,” the country’s transport minister, Hamid Behbahani, told the Daily Iran newspaper.
“Otherwise they will be banned from Iranian airspace…
Iran has picked potential sites for uranium enrichment plants and could begin planning for two of them this year, an Iranian nuclear energy official said Monday.
Israeli prime minister prepared to bypass UN security council to impose ‘effective, biting’ sanctions on Tehran
Iran says airlines will be banned from flying into its airspace unless they use the term “Persian Gulf” on in-flight monitors.
Iran’s vice-president says the country will build two new uranium enrichment sites in the next 12 months.
