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The Nuclear Fuel Deal with Iran: Losing Sight of the Broader Picture?

Even if Iran ultimately agrees to the deal, this by no means "proves" that its intentions are peaceful. The international community cannot afford to allow this deal to distract it from the broader goal that it has set for itself,...

Iranian Negotiations: Ploy of the Week or Deal of the Century?

Iranian leaders, knowing that they have some way to go before being technologically ready to build weapons, are happy to accept a seeming delay in providing the uranium which will allow them to catch up with the technological and...

Send Iranian smuggling case to UN

After US Marines seized seven shipping containers filled with 7.62-mm. bullets on an Iranian-chartered German ship earlier this month, allegedly bound for either the Syrian army or Hizbullah, Israeli officials have asked the...

Time to act - International Iran Conference, Nov. 28-29 in Berlin

Translated article on Siemens losing contract due to Iran business

Amir Taheri: Why A'Jad can't show his face

His allegedly fraudulent re-election last June triggered a crisis that has shaken the Islamic Republic, forcing the authorities to cancel dozens of events that the opposition might have used as cover for mass protests. Now the...

Rename the Streets for Neda

Without waiting for national legislators to formulate grand strategies, local authorities could proceed to rename streets after Agha-Sultan to commemorate her sacrifice. Leaders of Europe's capital cities could specifically redub...

Five Scheduled Executions in Iran

Tehran’s Revolutionary Court has recently sentenced five political activists to death, and their execution has been scheduled. With all due respect, we all freedom-loving Iranians expect you, the people and authorities of the...

Cripple Iran to save it

Millions of the regime's political opponents would back sanctions that helped remove the ruling clique. The last thing on their minds is defending an indefensible regime in the face of tough international sanctions.

The 3-minute video that may prove Iran's nuclear intentions

By Yossi Melman. A highly secret video, produced by Iranian nuclear scientists, depicting a computerized simulation of the detonation of a warhead, most likely a nuclear one, was screened on February 26, 2008, in the headquarters...

German Ship Transporting Arms for Iran

US troops boarded a German-owned freighter in early October and found eight containers full of ammunition, allegedly headed to Syria from Iran. The shipment is in violation of a UN weapons embargo and has become a source of...

Amir Taheri: Watching the Genie Dance

Whether we like it or not, Obama has offered Ahmadinejad a major diplomatic victory, one that the Iranian leader could use against his domestic opponents by claiming that his radicalism has achieved results that the supposed...

The Rise of the Iranian Dictatorship

Khamenei's new appointments to the IRGC leadership give hard-liners unprecedented power. The appointees also include some of the most feared and brutal men in Iran -- implying the IRGC will become an even stronger anti-democratic...

Hardliner to head Iran’s feared militia

Iran’s supreme leader has replaced the head of the feared Basij militia with a highly controversial figure from the elite Revolutionary Guards, prompting fears that he intends to make the closely affiliated forces more effective...

Amir Taheri: Obama's Gifts to Ahmadinejad

By all accounts, Thursday's talks between Iran and the 5+1 group of major powers represent a diplomatic coup for President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as he faces continued political unrest at home.