Wall Street Journal | Will Nuclear Deal Boost Iran Moderates or Hard-Liners? Wall Street Journal ISTANBUL—Reformers and hard-liners in the Iranian regime have been jockeying for influence for decades. As the Islamic Republic now nears a landmark nuclear agreement with the U.S. and other world powers, the Middle East's future depends on which ... Saudi Arabia faces many threats, and Iran isn't at the top of the list North Korean nuclear, missile experts visit Iran-dissidents The Obama administration is losing all of its point people on Iran |
The National Interest Online (blog) | Israeli Military: Iran Is Not Most Dangerous Threat The National Interest Online (blog) Israel's military doesn't consider Iran to be the greatest threat to the Jewish state, according to a new report. Earlier this week, the Jewish weekly, Forward, reported that the “Israel's military General Staff and intelligence services are in the ... Netanyahu: Israel, US discussing new security aid package unrelated to Iran deal US defence aid to Israel to rise over Iran deal fears - sources US defense aid to Israel to rise over Iran deal fears: sources |
New York Times | As Jason Rezaian Stands Trial in Iran, Former Prisoners Share Their Experiences New York Times Few facts are known about the espionage case against Jason Rezaian, the Washington Post correspondent in Iran who went on trial Tuesday in a closed Tehran courtroom, in front of a Revolutionary Court judge known for harsh sentences. Shane M. Bauer ... France: no Iran nuclear deal if military site inspections are blocked Iran: Pirate of the Persian Gulf Iran nuclear deal unlikely by June 30-French envoy |
Washington Post (blog) | Iran Group Stages Cartoon Contest to Ridicule ISIS NBCNews.com Militias backed by majority Shiite Muslim Iran are battling extremist Sunni ISIS, which has overrun swathes of Iraq and Syria. While tensions between Shiite and Sunni Muslims have existed for centuries, they have worsened in recent years with largely ... Anti-Islamic State Cartoon Contest Launched in Iran Iran holds an anti-Islamic State cartoon contest Iran launches anti-IS cartoon competition |
New York Post | Obama's nuke deal will leave Iran funding even more terror New York Post Meanwhile, on another Israeli border, Iran's Lebanese proxy, Hezbollah, is learning from Hamas as well. The group's nearly 100,000 rockets are increasingly stashed in civilians' homes, ensuring innocent casualties will star in the coverage of the next war. Iran said to pull Islamic Jihad's funding over group's neutrality on Yemen |
U.S. News & World Report | Washington Post hits back against Iran court claims U.S. News & World Report Jason Rezaian, an Iranian-American correspondent for the Washington Post, smiles as he attends a presidential campaign event of President Hassan Rouhani, in Tehran, Iran, in 2013. The closed trial of Rezaian detained in Iran for more than 10 months has ... Iran's latest lie puts Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaian on trial |
CNN | What we get wrong about Iran CNN Last month, I traveled to Iran with a group of U.S. businesspeople who were interested in the country's culture and commerce. As part of the self-funded trip, we traveled to the major cities -- Tehran, Isfahan, Shiraz and Qom -- and had broad access to ... Opinion: The choice Iran faces in the region Opinion: What we get wrong about Iran |
BBC News | Iran hardliners crack down on freedom of speech BBC News When Iranian pop star Mehdi Ahmadvand announced he would be playing two nights in the small south-western town of Mahshahr in May there was palpable excitement. Tickets for the 1,000-seat concert venue were snapped up fast. Happy fans posted ... |
Democracy Now! | WikiLeaks Releases 500K U.S. Cables from 1978 on Iran, Sandinistas ... Democracy Now! On Wednesday, WikiLeaks added more than half a million U.S. diplomatic cables from 1978 to its Public Library of US Diplomacy database. The documents include diplomatic cables and other diplomatic communications from and to U.S. embassies and ... |
The central fallacy of Obama's Iran policy Washington Post (blog) The trial and Iran's support for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, aggressive use of proxies throughout the Middle East and persistent genocidal rhetoric directed toward Israel belie the notion, upon which the president's negotiating hope rests, that ... Iran: Liberals' nightmare |