Tag: Iran

Iran proudly paraded its military hardware in Tehran on Friday under the gaze of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who used the event to again defiantly lash out at the West and Israel. The display, involving thousands of military personnel, tanks and

(Reuters) – British author Salman Rushdie, who lived in hiding for nine years under a death sentence from Iran’s supreme leader, said in an interview published on Thursday that something had gone wrong at the heart of Islam. Rushdie told

A new report by the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) claims Israel acting alone will not be sufficient to stop Iran’s nuclear program. There will have to be U.S. strikes if it’s to be successful. According to the

The Obama Doctrine of pulling our troops out of Iraq has been a disaster; any hope the United States had that Iraq would become our ally is gone. Now Iraq is actually cooperating with our enemy Iran to fly military

The most prestigious group of Sunni Islamic scholars and jurists in the world called on American Muslims to “immediately start legal action to prosecute those who offend Islam” and called on the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) to wage lawfare

Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu demands Obama set a “red line,” as Iran is just months away from having a nuclear bomb. Appearing on NBC’s Meet the Press on Sunday, Netanyahu said Obama has to “place a red line before [Iran]

JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israel’s military launched a surprise large-scale exercise on Wednesday on the occupied Golan Heights, testing its battle readiness amid tensions over Iran’s nuclear drive and civil war in Syria.

Mitt Romney said Palestinians have “no interest whatsoever” in achieving peace in the Middle East, questioning the feasibility of the proposed two-state solution in Israel at a May fundraiser in Florida.  In a video of the fundraiser, Romney is heard

The violent Islamist-led protests currently seen around the world cannot long endure, for they do not represent a beginning but a destructive end marking “the last gasp of Islamic hate.” So writes Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a former Muslim and member of the

Fifty years ago, the Soviet Union put nuclear missiles in Cuba. History may be repeating itself in the Caribbean. Russian military officials have confirmed they are “considering” basing nuclear bombers in Cuba or Venezuela. They have been offered basing and

Republican VP candidate Paul Ryan considers Israel “our best ally” in the Middle East and asserts that the Obama administration’s treatment of the nation has signaled the opposite. Speaking at the Values Voter Summit on Friday, Ryan said the Obama admin

Iranian oil minister Rostam Qasemi said that crude oil should be $150 a barrel on Sunday.  “During the winter, oil prices always climb,”Qasemi said. “So it’s natural that this year as well we will have a risein oil prices in

It seems as if the Obama Administration’s animus toward Israel and its plans for Israel’s destruction are moving swiftly toward completion. Step One: Since Obama took office, the number of Iranian centrifuges spinning to make enriched uranium has nearly tripled. 

It is looking more and more that Israel is going to attack Iran very soon. Battleships, aircraft carriers, minesweepers and submarines from around the globe are converging on the Strait of Hormuz to conduct war exercises for 12 days because

(AP) Iran commander warns Israel, US against attackBy ALI AKBAR DAREINIAssociated PressTEHRANThe top commander in Iran’s powerful Revolutionary Guard warned Sunday that his country’s missiles will ensure “nothing will remain” of Israel if it takes military action against Tehran over

It is looking more and more that Israel is going to attack Iran very soon. Battleships, aircraft carriers, minesweepers and submarines from around the globe are converging on the Strait of Hormuz to conduct war exercises for 12 days because

Barely more than three years ago, President Obama traveled to Cairo, speaking to students and offering a “new beginning between the United States and Muslims around the world.” Now, in the wake of the storming of the US Embassy in Cairo on Tuesday,

They say a picture is worth a thousand words.  If that’s the case, then the picture painted by the continuously updated Google Map assembled by Atlantic Wire speaks volumes more than the Obama Administration would like voters to hear:  

President Mohamed Morsi is set to seek increased aid and investment from Europe for Egypt’s beleaguered economy when he visits Brussels on Thursday on his first trip to Europe since his election in June. The Islamist president “wishes to talk

There are sure to be people asking why Barack Obama turned down a meeting with Benjamin Netanyahu, given the critical nature of Iran’s race toward nuclear weaponry. Obama’s animus toward Israel is an open secret, but there may be an