by anderson
A rather interesting development: insurgents have been hacking and jacking video feeds from US military Predator drones. Naturally, the Iranians get a mention, well, just because.
Militants in Iraq have used $26 off-the-shelf software to intercept live video feeds from U.S. Predator drones, potentially providing them with information they need to [...]
THE DEPROLIFERATOR -- Last week Secretary of Defense Robert Gates accused Tehran of "stiffing the international community" by failing to hold up its end of the October United Nations agreement. Iran, of course, had agreed to send low-enriched uranium to Russia and then France. In return, it [...]
By Steve Hynd
You may have noticed mainstream media reports echoing a new story from the London Times which alleges to have gotten its hands on a "smoking gun" document that "proves" Iran is working on nuclear weapons. As usual, however, the hype isn't sustainable. The document the London Times' [...]
By Steve Hynd
It's the accepted Beltway wisdom that Obama's diplomatic outreach to Iran over its nuclear program is already over, failed. He was always going to be given one chance which was expected to not succeed and now that it has failed it's time to move on to further punitive' [...]
By John Ballard
As a student I hated history. It is filled with stories and dates that no longer make any difference. Or so I thought. But as I got older I came into contact with people for whom history was more important than the present. In fact, it was history [...]
By Gregg Carlstrom
Spencer Ackerman talked yesterday with Jeremy Ben-Ami, the director of J Street, to find out why his group supports Rep. Howard Berman's Iran Refined Petroleum Sanctions Act.
Critics (including Spencer) think J Street caved to pressure from the right wing of the American Jewish community. But [...]
by anderson
On a somewhat personal note, I'd like to congratulate NIAC president Dr. Trita Parsi for winning the Grawemeyer Award for "Ideas Improving World Order."
His treatise on Iran, Israeli, and US trilateral relations is a barn
burner -- barns, anyway, honed from the hardwood of geopolitical rivalry:
By Dave Anderson:
Matt Yglesias makes a simple point about Russia's incentives concerning Iran --- mild instability and uncertainty is great for the Russian budget:
wouldn’t Russia be the primary beneficiary of the strategic and economic instability on Israeli attack on Iran would bring...
The fact of the matter is that Russia, a [...]
By Steve Hynd
With any Iranian nuclear fuel swap deal seemingly DOA, the board of the International Atomic Energy Agency has swiftly passed a vote condemning Iran for not being forthcoming enough in answering charges derived from the dodgy Laptop of Death and has called upon Iraq to [...]
By Steve Hynd
Last December I wrote: "it is already an accepted fact among the Very Serious Person set that Obama's idea of negotiation without preconditions will get exactly one shot, will fail, and then the bombs will begin to fall." Well, that looks to be the way events [...]
