Tag: Iran

Iranian Northern Naval Fleet Commander Admiral Afshin Rezayee Haddad said Iranian warships are headed toward U.S. maritime borders to send “a message.” The move “is part of a longstanding protest against U.S. vessels in the Persian Gulf.” According to RT.com, Iranian

On February 7th, Iranian TV aired a video of a computer simulated attack “on Tel Aviv, Haifa, Ben Gurion Airport and the Dimona nuclear reactor.”  The video also showed “simulated strikes on the American aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln.”  According

(Reuters) – Iran’s Supreme Leader said on Saturday the United States would overthrow the Iranian government if it could, adding Washington had a “controlling and meddlesome” attitude towards the Islamic Republic, Iranian media reported. In a speech to mark the

This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com Central African Republic: Christians aim to get rid of all Muslims Reader complaints about Central African Republic and Syria Central African Republic: Christians aim to get rid of all Muslims Thousands of Muslims are

The push for new sanctions on Iran in the event that the interim nuclear deal fails to stop the regime’s nuclear program has been abandoned.  The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), the country’s leading pro-Israel lobby, had pushed for

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry told CNN’s Jake Tapper that France had been placed “on notice” for its violations of sanctions against Iran, according to an interview to be broadcast Wednesday on The Lead with Jake Tapper. Kerry said:

Under Secretary of State Wendy Sherman distanced herself Wednesday from the White House’s claim that support for new Iran sanctions means opposition to diplomacy, or support for war. “I don’t believe…any member of the Senate, any member of the House

Iran is set to receive its first batch of oil money from a $4.2 billion pot this week, according to its chief nuclear negotiator Abbas Araqchi.  The funds, thought to be around $550 million, are due to be deposited in

The Obama administration may believe that Iranian president Hassan Rouhani is a “moderate,” but he has presided over a wave of executions, the latest being of Iranian-Arab poet and activist Hashem Shaabani, according to the Jerusalem Post. The 31-year-old was

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is once again the target of criticism, direct and indirect, by Israeli leaders after he suggested that Israel could face “delegitimization” and “boycott” campaigns without a peace deal with the Palestinians.  That remark, made

Unnamed sources told AFP that Democrats who were signed up for more sanctions against Iran have now “privately recoiled from a damaging vote against their own president.” According to AFP, “several Democrat Senators who previously backed a bi-partisan sanctions bill

Israeli Minister of Defense Moshe “Bogey” Ya’alon took aim at the peace process being pushed by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry–albeit in far more diplomatic terms–this week at the Institute for National Security Studies in Tel Aviv. Earlier in

Martin Indyk, who serves as the State Department’s special envoy for Israeli-Palestinian peace, presented the outline of Secretary of State John Kerry’s framework for a peace deal on a conference call with American Jewish leaders, the Times of Israel reports.

The Palestinian Authority is seeking help from Iran in dealing with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, hoping to pressure Israel–and to send a signal of defiance to the Obama administration. Jibril Rajoub, a senior official of the “moderate” Fatah faction, declared Thursday

Director of National Intelligence James Clapper told the Senate Intelligence Committee on Wednesday that Iran now possesses the capacity to build nuclear weapons. In a report submitted to the committee, Clapper noted: Tehran has made technical progress in a number

President Barack Obama has been aware for at least two years that Russia had been testing missiles in violation of the terms of the 1987 Immediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty for several years. In May 2013, according to a report in

Israel is entering an “Era of Fire” in which it is threatened by 170,000 rockets and missiles and in which the Syrian civil war has placed “30,000 global jihad terrorists” at its doorstep, Israel’s defense intelligence chief said in a speech Wednesday.

“I know this chamber agrees that few Americans give more to their country than our diplomats and the men and women of the United States Armed Forces.” President Barack Obama spoke these words in his State of the Union on