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In-Depth Issues: Iranian Officials Observed North Korean Rocket Launch - Danielle Demetriou (Telegraph-UK)    The high-profile rocket launch in North Korea was reportedly attended by 12 officials from the Iranian Shahid Hemmat Industrial Group (SHID).  ...

Russia and China: Who is more worthy of respect?

 In 1985, the Communist Party of the Soviet Union elected a noble-minded leader named Mikhail Gorbachev. Gorbachev promised to make the Soviet Union more humane and democratic. His reforms - glasnost (political openness) and perestroika (economic reconstruction) - became...

Can Iran’s current government ever be trusted?

The answer is no, so why bother? “Negotiating,” being at the table with Iran, provides them a forum for blather. They typically make fools of themselves while throwing out just enough hope that the weakest...

Armed with “intelligence” U.S. approaches Iran negotiation

According to this Washington Post report, the U.S. will be at the “negotiation” table with Iran on Friday with Russia, China, Britain, France and Germany. The U.S. will be in a position to share intelligence...

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In-Depth Issues: Joint Greek-Israeli-U.S. Military Drill to Defend Gas Platforms at Sea - A. Papapostolou (Greek Reporter)    Greece, Israel, and the U.S. are conducting joint air and naval exercises from March 26 until April 5, in part to simulate defending ...

Why President Obama took control of oil by executive order

Why President Obama took control of oil by executive order: It is a squeeze play against Iran. He needed the latitude to regulate the flow of oil into the market to ease pressure to offset sanctions against Iran. ...

Exposing the Truth about Global March on Jerusalem

All Information made possible by CIF Watch. As previously reported, the SE Asia delegation of the Global March to Jerusalem (which has picked up some Iranian fellow travellers along the way) is currently in Turkey.   One of the Iranian delegates has provided photographs...

Iranians speak to Israeli newspaper, reveal grim state of affairs

So many pundits and so many stories about hatred between Iran and Israel. Yet the people of both countries reach out to each other and in the end the suffering and oppression in Iran appears to be unbearable. While in Israel we are preoccupied with threats and preparations...

Assessing Iran with a bomb

Walter Pincus at the Washington Post reports an assessment. Conclusion: Israel outclasses Iran with its own nuclear capability that would smother Iran. Iranian leaders aren’t inclined to become martyrs. Everyone...

Iran Part 3

By Yoram Getzler. As an up-date and continuation to my recent posting about Iran, I would like to add a pikanti story from the Israeli press on the kind of individual peace initiative that people so love to hear about, contemplate and participate in.   To begin with it...

Sobering contemplation: another American-led war

When you listen to Iran’s leadership they sound very much like Hitler and the Nazis before WWII. They feel a need to pick an external enemy to rally people around their extreme views. They interweave theocracy...

Buying time for Iran, Israel, and Obama

What the world needs now is peace, not war Given the character of the Iranian government, it is unacceptable to permit them to have nuclear weapons. In effect, with sanctions against them, Iran is already at war...

Will Iran sink itself before anyone acts?

Recklessness If Iran is as reckless as it seems, maybe their own actions under the weight of sanctions will slowly sink their ship. I think that is the hope. Actions against Iran will scale in magnitude and rate...

Libya's Oil Rich East Declares Autonomy. Civil war is next.

One great way for industrialized nations to get their economies on the move is the switch to a War Economy. Great for unemployment, great for politicians and fantastic for the Military Industrial Complex.With the...

President Obama is poised against Iran and so are Republicans

President Obama is poised against Iran and Republican leaders agree. Representative Adam Smith sounds the most prudent chord. “’We should allow enough time to see if the sanctions and international isolation...

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