Departing United Nations Nuke Watchdog, IAEA director Dr. Mohammed El-Baradei is just a hack for the Iranian Nuke program: Last year the Wall Street Journal described him this way: The IAEA director seems intent on undercutting Security Council diplomacy. Just weeks after President George Bush toured the Middle East to build Arab support for pressure on Tehran, Mr. ElBaradei appeared on ...

Double Standards for Iran’s Nuclear Program by Muhammad Sahimi "The issue between Iran and the West goes beyond Ahmadinejad or any other Iranian government – democratic or not, for that matter. It has to do with Iran’s national rights in the framework of the international agreements that it has signed, in particular the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). The issue also has to ...

Iranian petrochemicals industry is headed for contraction or stagnation in 2010 with prospects for significant project delays and lower rates of capacity utilization, according to Business Monitor Intternational (BMI). For more details on Iran’s petrochemicals industry could stagnate or contract in 2010 click here

Renata Giraldi Brazzilmag 8th December, 2009 Brazilian diplomats believe that the administration of president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva plans to expand Brazil government’s outward signs of support and solidarity to Iranian President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. According to them, last week’s visit of Brazil’s Foreign Minister, Celso Amorim, to the Iranian city of Isfahan to arrange ...

If your political mind has been entirely consumed by issues like Afghanistan and health care reform, you may have missed the reports about the continuing unrest inside Iran. Today’s NYT has an update. In the course of the opposition’s evolution since this summer’s stolen election, it appears the most widely recognized of the losing presidential candidates, Mir Hussein ...

HURRIYET: Iran rejects Turkish role in nuclear talks ...Foreign Ministry Spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast implicitly rejected Turkey's desire to mediate between it and world powers, a possibility raised by U.S. President Barack Obama on Monday during talks with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. “The Iranian stance in the nuclear dispute is quite clear and there is no need for a ...

It was said that Russia had returned Irans supply of uranium, now refined, to them. Iran soon announced that they would begin the process of building a nuclear power plant. The media here in America is ... shut down her nuclear power plant. By the time he decided to set a date to bomb the location of Irans under-construction nuclear power plant, it was early to mid 2008 (really no time to organize a ...

... has provided a potential opening for navigating these varied issues and interests. Yet not only has it so far been rebuffed by Irans supreme leader, Ayatollah Khamenei, it has even caused transatlantic tensions, as differences have appeared over how to respond to the repression of political protests, and to the most recent discoveries about Irans nuclear program. Date: Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:00:00 - ...

Three American hikers who have been detained in Iran since they crossed into the country from Iraq in July have been accused of espionage, the first signal that Tehran intends to send the matter to trial. Shane Bauer, 27, Sarah Shourd, 31, and Josh Fattal, 27, entered the Islamic Republic while hiking along the unmarked border in the scenic mountains of Iraqi Kurdistan, a peaceful region that is ...

My latest Capital Journal column looks at the rifts opening up within Iran’s regime: One month after the U.S. launched a great diplomatic experiment by talking directly with Iran, the pressure of the effort is opening up some stress fractures. Some small fractures are showing up in the wall of solidarity the U.S. and its partners have tried to show in confronting Iran over its nuclear ...

On November 4, 2009 the Israeli Navy intercepted an Iranian ship near Cyprus, which is 100 miles west of the Israeli coast. The Iranian ship was sailing under an Antiguan flag. The ship was transporting 500 tons of weapons from Iran and intended for the Shi'ite Hezbollah terrorist group in Lebanon. It is well-known that Iran provides Hezbollah and Hamas with weapons. The Israeli military has ...

Iran tested advanced nuclear warhead design – secret report Exclusive: Watchdog fears Tehran has key component to put bombs in missiles The UN's nuclear watchdog has asked Iran to explain evidence suggesting that Iranian scientists have experimented with an advanced nuclear warhead design, the Guardian has learned. The very existence of the technology, known as a "two-point implosion& ...

From Reuters: Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Tuesday the Islamic state would not be deceived into reconciliation with its arch foe and the United States was a "really arrogant power," state radio reported...."The American government is a really arrogant power and the Iranian nation will not be deceived with its apparent reconciliatory behavior until ...

This reads like a comedy skit. Or like a really bad dream come true. (IsraelNN.com) U.S. Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs William Burns told the Middle East Institute in Washington on Tuesday that the U.S. recognizes the Iranian regime’s “right” to nuclear power, does not seek regime change and is ready for more talks with Iran. "We seek a relationship with the Islamic ...

One month after the U.S. launched a great diplomatic experiment by talking directly with Iran, the pressure of the effort is opening up some stress fractures. Some small fractures are showing up in the wall of solidarity the U.S. and its partners have tried to show in confronting Iran over its nuclear program -- specifically over how long to give diplomacy a chance before turning to new ...