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U.S. Engaged in Covert War Against Iran?
December 7, 2011I’ve been intrigued by the question how involved the U.S. is in the black ops campaign against Iran that is being conducted largely by Israel. I hadn’t noticed this article published two months ago by AP reporter, Douglas Birch. In it, he delves into the question and comes up with more support for the thesis [...]
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Iran Calls Nuclear Sanctions “Vain”
December 1, 2011The US and Canada have announced that new measures will be taken to target Iran’s nuclear program. A senior Iranian political official has said that the sanctions imposed on the Iranian nuclear program would be “in vain” despite Western authority … Israel’s News & Views Blog
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Who’s Right About Iran Attack: Doomsayers or Naysayers?
November 3, 2011There are a considerable number of Middle East analysts and bloggers who dismiss the idea that Israel will attack Iran. My good friend Max Blumenthal doesn’t believe it for a minute. He says there’d be too much “blowback.” Others point out that operationally Israel doesn’t have the means to carry out such a complex military [...]
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Ahmadinejad: No Homosexuals in Iran
September 10, 2011In 2005, Human Rights Watch reported that two Iranian teenagers were executed for homosexual conduct. In 2007, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad claimed there were no gay people in his country. In 2011 he secured this as a fact once again. … Israel’s News & Views Blog
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Idea of an Israeli attack on Iran losing popularity?
May 13, 2011Mossad head dismisses thoughts of a military strike on Tehran’s nuclear facility as “the most stupid idea I ever heard” and even Defense Minister Barak sounds less confrontational than ever Last summer, American journalist Jeffrey Goldberg published a cover piece in the Atlantic which claimed that Israel all but made up its mind to [...] [...]
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Khomeini Believes That Iran Should Become a Parliamentary Democracy
February 15, 2011Via Cliff May, this gem of analysis from Time Magazine in 1979. I only post this to make the point that we don’t really know much about what will happen in the future, because it hasn’t happened yet. This is Time discussing Ayatollah Khomeini’s plans, shortly after he arrived back in Iran:Those who know the [...]
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Report: Irans Nuclear Program Going Full Speed Ahead
January 23, 2011Well, this isn’t good news: WASHINGTON DC — While U.S. and Israeli officials claim Iran has slowed down its nuclear drive, new analysis by the Federation of American Scientists demonstrates that Iran’s enrichment capacity grew during 2010 and warns against complacency as five world powers resume talks with Iran this week. The study indicates that [...]
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What to Think About Irans Nuclear Program Right Now
January 22, 2011The announcement by the now-former head of the Mossad, Meir Dagan, that sanctions and subterfuge (including and especially the Stuxnet worm) have delayed Iran’s nuclear program has caused many people, yours truly included, to breathe a little bit easier about this crisis (though Dagan, apparently under pressure, partially retracted his sunny intelligence estimate). Iran’s intentions [...]
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Has the Ex-Mossad Chief Made an Iran Attack More Likely?
January 21, 2011Ari Shavit excoriates Meir Dagan, the recently-retired Mossad chief, for subverting the international coalition aligned against Iran by speaking so loudly against a military option:Dagan probably thinks Netanyahu and Defense Minister Ehud Barak are dangerous people. He is afraid they might make some foolhardy move in Iran. But the things he said around the end [...]
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A Major Victory for President Obama on Iran
January 11, 2011With Iran, you never really know what’s what (remember the National Intelligence Estimate a few years ago telling us that Tehran had stopped developing nuclear weapons?) but I think it is fair to say that the combination of sanctions and subterfuge has definitively set back Iran’s nuclear program by at least one and perhaps as [...]
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Wikileaks: U.S. Provided 100 Bunker-Buster Bombs for Use Against Iran
January 3, 2011Aftenposten is reporting that a Wikileaks cable describes a November, 2009 meeting between a high-level delegation of Israeli and American political, military and intelligence operatives. On the agenda was the U.S. delivery of 100 bunker-buster bombs to Israel meant to be used to assault Iran’s fortified nuclear facilities. Those attending the meeting urged: …That deliveries [...]
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Sakineh Ashtiani, German Journalists Possibly Free Tonight
December 10, 2010Just received notice from the International Committee Against Stoning (ICAS), a human rights organization that has spearheaded the international campaign to free a 43-year-old mother of two sentenced to death in Iran for adultery, that she has been released. The Huffington Post has this report as well. However, other reports suggest that [...]
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How Far Could Iran Go to Meet the U.S.?
December 7, 2010An interview with the very smart Karim Sadjadpour: I think the individuals who are currently running Iran believe enmity toward the United States to be an inextricable part of the Islamic Republic’s identity and ideological narrative. This doesn’t mean that we shun dialogue with Iran, but we should have realistic expectations of what it will [...]
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Arabs vs. Iran
December 4, 2010In a post the other day (entitled, “The Arabs vs. Iran? Please.”) Andrew argues that Arab-Iranian tension is limited to a few autocrats, and that most Arabs favor a nuclearized Iran. As a slight corrective, I suggest you read John Limbert’s Foreign Policy piece, “Why Can’t Arabs and Iranians Just Get Along? 14 Centuries of [...]
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Andrew Sullivan on What I Apparently Believe
November 30, 2010Andrew writes: One of the relieving aspects of the Wikileaks docu-dump is that Jeffrey Goldberg no longer has to muddy his newly-discovered support for war against Iran.This is a flat-out misrepresentation of my position. I am opposed to a military strike on Iran for the foreseeable future. Last week, I wrote, of the Stuxnet virus [...]