SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Showing impatience with Iranian foot-dragging, President Barack Obama said Thursday that the U.S. and its allies are discussing possible new penalties to bring fresh pressure on Iran for defying international attempts to halt its contested nuclear program.
Obama’s warning came after Iran rejected a compromise proposal to ship its low-enriched uranium [...]
China Daily:
CHIANG MAI, Thailand: Former US President Jimmy Carter said he was pressed by his advisers to attack Iran during the hostage crisis there more than 30 years ago but resisted because he feared 20,000 Iranians could have died.
Islamist militants stormed the US Embassy in Tehran on November 4, 1979, and seized its occupants. Fifty-two [...]
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Iranian state television reports five people have been sentenced to death over the unrest that followed the country’s disputed June presidential election.
At least three others caught up in the turmoil have received death sentences previously.
The report on Tuesday quotes a statement by the Justice Department saying the five sentenced were members [...]
(AFP) Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Monday the “enemies” of his country’s nuclear program had been defeated ahead of the release of the latest UN report on the atomic drive.
International attention focused on the report as US President Barack Obama said “time is running out” for Iran to respond to a UN plan aiming [...]
Slate Magazine:
When it comes to any issue that involves Islam, President Obama starts with an advantage and a disadvantage. The advantage is that he’s seen as sympathetic to Muslims. The disadvantage is also that he’s seen as sympathetic to Muslims.
With a Muslim name, African Muslim ancestry on his father’s side, and the experience of growing [...]
BRUSSELS – An Iranian opposition leader said Thursday that the country is making sweeping changes to its security apparatus in an effort to consolidate the power of the elite Revolutionary Guard.
Maryam Rajavi, head of the National Council of Resistance of Iran — a Paris-based umbrella opposition group — said the alleged changes and accompanying purges [...]
Jerusalem Post:
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called on the US to choose between Israel and Iran on Tuesday night, according to Iranian state media.
Ahmadinejad said that for a real change in relations to take place, a choice must be made.
Speaking in Istanbul at the 25th Session of the Standing Committee for Economic and Commercial Cooperation [...]
TEHRAN, Iran — Iranian security forces using batons and tear gas stormed anti-government marches in Tehran on Wednesday during state-sanctioned rallies marking the 30th anniversary of the takeover of the U.S. Embassy, witnesses and state media reported.
Witnesses told The Associated Press that security forces — mainly paramilitary units from the Revolutionary Guard — swept [...]
JERUSALEM — Israeli naval commandos seized an arms ship Wednesday near Cyprus that was carrying missiles and anti-tank weapons from Iran to Hezbollah guerrillas in Lebanon, defense officials said.
The pre-dawn seizure highlighted Israel’s accusations that Iran is arming its enemies. Israel offered no evidence to back up its claim that the weapons were [...]
Once again, we all have the opportunity to be just absolutely blown away by the amazing successes of this new era of Obama foreign policy, all the change, all the hope, all the huge difference his “genius” new approach has made…
Jerusalem Post:
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Thursday his country would not give up “one [...]
By NASSER KARIMI
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Iran will seek “important changes” in a U.N.-drafted plan to ship enriched uranium out of the country for processing, state TV reported on Tuesday, raising alarm bells among Western leaders who are pushing the deal in hopes of easing concerns over Iran’s nuclear program.
The TV report said Iran would [...]
Jerusalem Post:
Defense Minister Ehud Barak broke Israel’s official silence on a draft plan to ship one load of Iranian uranium abroad for enrichment, saying Thursday night there was a need to halt all uranium enrichment on Iranian soil.
“This agreement, if it is signed, will set Iran’s accumulation of enriched material back by about a [...]
Fox News:
The chief of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard on Monday accused the United States, Britain and Pakistan of having links with the Sunni militants responsible for a homicide bombing that killed five senior Guard commanders and 37 others.
“Behind this scene are the American and British intelligence apparatus and there will have to be retaliatory measures [...]
Enter ACTIVISTS
Press TV:
The British army has been relocating Taliban insurgents from southern Afghanistan to the north by providing transportation means, diplomats say.
The diplomats, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said insurgents are being airlifted from the southern province of Helmand to the north amid increasing violence in the northern parts of the country.
The aircraft used for [...]
Finally, some good news…
Agencie France Presse:
A suicide bomber blew himself up at a meeting of the elite Revolutionary Guards in southeastern Iran Sunday, killing at least 30 people including top commanders and tribal leaders, a senior official said.
The attack took place in the city of Pisheen near the border with Pakistan in restive Sistan-Baluchestan province, [...]
NRO:
I try to keep up to speed on Islamic law, but it’s more complicated than I’d thought. For example, women are supposed to be “modest” in public. But that’s no reason not to make them disrobe in the street and shake their breasts:
A hardline Islamist group in Somalia has begun publicly [...]
SYDNEY (AP) - Five men were convicted Friday of plotting a terrorist attack by stockpiling bomb-making instructions and purchasing explosive chemicals in Australia’s largest terrorist conspiracy.
A jury deliberated for a month before finding the men guilty of conspiring to commit acts in preparation for a terrorist attack. Each face a maximum sentence of life in [...]
