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Top Things you Think You Know about Iran that are not True
Thursday is a fateful day for the world, as the US, other members of the United Nations Security Council, and Germany meet in Geneva with […]
Obama Meets Advisers on Afghanistan; Ismail Khan Warns against US Troop Surge
President Barack Obama met Wednesday afternoon for 3 hours with his advisers on the Afghanistan war, including VP Joe Biden and, by teleconference, Gen. Stanley […]
Cole on KCRW and Iran and an Israeli Attack
I was on the KCRW in Los Angeles’s “To the Point” on Wednesday discussing the Iranian nuclear program and the prospects of an Israeli attack […]
So Long Iraq
Daniel Graeber covers the debate about Iraq on university campuses and finds that attention has largely turned elsewhere. And, indeed, even Gen. Ray Odierno, who […]
Bombings at Qandahar kill over 30, wound 40; NATO convoy Attacked; ISI Backs Karzai
A suicide bomber rammed his vehicle into a NATO convoy in eastern Afghanistan on Wednesday morning. There are reportedly casualties but early reports did not […]
IRGC Air Force Commander: Missile Tests Defensive; Pledges Iran to ‘No First Strike"
Ali Akbar Salehi, the head of Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization, reaffirmed Monday that a date would soon be set for the International Atomic Energy Agency […]
Ram: "Israel and the Iranian Threat"
Haggai Ram writes in a guest editorial for IC: Before, during and after the recent UN General Assembly meeting, the Israeli government, much like Sisyphus, […]
The Most Dangerous Nuclear Facility in the Middle East
There is no good evidence that Iran has a nuclear weapons program. It has offered to allow regular International Atomic Energy Agency inspections of the […]
Ismail Khan Survives Taliban attack; Withdraws from Cabinet; US Military’s fate in Afghanistan will be Worse than than of the Soviets
On Sunday morning, a Taliban suicide bombing attack struck at the entourage of Ismail Khan, the Afghan Minister of Energy and Water, in Herat, according […]