Iran has reorganized its naval forces to give operational control of the strategic Persian Gulf and Strait of Hormuz to the naval component of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, the paramilitary organization that is playing an increasingly central role not only in Iran's military [...]
Two weeks before President Obama visited China, two senior White House officials traveled to Beijing on a "special mission" to try to persuade China to pressure Iran to give up its alleged nuclear weapons program.
If Beijing did not help the [...]
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the Iranian President, received a hero’s welcome yesterday as he visited his key Latin American ally on a regional tour designed to shore up support for Tehran in its confrontation with Western powers.
Shouting “Viva Ahmadinejad!” Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez pledged his [...]
From the White House weblog:
In an address recorded in Seoul, South Korea, the President discusses his trip to Asia. He talks about his push to stop nuclear proliferation in North Korea, Iran, and around the world. He talks about promoting America’s principles for an open society in China while making [...]
I really can't decide. It's been a bonanza week for boners. I like this one that Greg "Teh Resistance" caught:
“Iran has taken weeks now and has not shown its willingness to say yes to this proposal . . . and so as a consequence we have begun discussions with' [...]
The five main problems:
* Military commissions are the appropriate venue for trials of unlawful combatant. The US military seized these terrorists on foreign battlefields -- and so didn't read them Miranda rights. The evidence against them was collected by soldiers under' [...]
A couple of interesting articles worth taking note of. First, this one from Gary Sick, who gives us a much-needed dose of common-sense on Iran’s nuclear program. After noting that for seventeen years, Iran hawks have predicted that in five years Iran would have a nuclear weapon, he goes [...]
Preet Bharara, the U.S. attorney [...]
For almost a decade, Arab regimes have worried about alleged Iranian plans to create a "Shiite crescent" from the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean, encompassing Iraq, Syria, Lebanon and a yet-to-be liberated Palestine. Now fresh fears have grown that the "crescent" may take another shape [...]
This is a must see video for LST readers. Peter Robinson, Hoover Institute fellow and best known as the writer of Ronald Reagan’s Berlin Wall speech, has published a 5 part series on his interview of Victor Davis Hanson and former CIA agent and author, Robert Baer discussing Iran [...]
In a letter to the head of the prestigious university's Queen's' [...]
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" device, is officially secret in both the US and Britain, [...]
Alaeddin Boroujerdi, chief of Iran's Parliament National Security and Foreign [...]
Weeks of "mass mobilization" failed to produce "the largest crowds in history."
The official news agency, IRNA, which habitually reports "the marches of the millions," had to lower its rhetoric to "tens of thousands." More, its reports indicated that, in most cases, [...]
"Officials in Jerusalem had not dared even to dream of better timing for the capture of the vessel carrying so much" [...]
