Iran’s FM arrived in Ankara on Thursday and attend the inauguration ceremony of Turkish president-elect Erdogan. Mohammad Javad Zarif was received by Turkish officials at the airport. Erdogan won the country’s first direct ballot on Aug 10. BBC reported that Mr Erdogan, who served three terms as PM, has vowed to give more power to the previously ceremonial post. Critics ... Read More »
Iran’s leaders seem to have internalized a key lesson: They have nothing to fear from this U.S. president. If they did you wouldn’t see actions like this: Iran has conducted “mechanical” tests on a new, advanced machine to refine uranium, a senior official was quoted as saying on Wednesday, a disclosure that may annoy Western states pushing Tehran to scale ... Read More »
It was just reported that a 26 year old American woman that was kidnapped around a year ago in Syria is being held by ISIS. She was said to have been there doing humanitarian relief work when she got abducted. The terror group has asked for either $6.6 million in ransom or the release of Aafia Siddiqui, an MIT-trained neuroscientist ... Read More »
On Tuesday, Pentagon officials claimed that the Coast Guard patrol vessel Monomoy fired the warning shot after a machine gun on the Iranian fishing boat was aimed at the US forces. Apparently one warning shot was fired and that did the trick, the small boat sped away. U.S. military officials said the trouble started when the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter ... Read More »
One day after the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps announced that it had downed an Israeli drone, the IRGC reported that the operation range of the drone indicates that it did not come from Israel but rather was launched from one of the countries in the region. Brigadier General Amir Ali Hajizadeh told reporters that investigations into the downed drone were ... Read More »
Fars News reported that Senior Generals in Tehran said on Tuesday that Iran will not give a diplomatic response to the violation of its airspace by an Israeli spy drone which was shot downed near Natanz nuclear site a few days ago, and warned that Tel Aviv should wait for Iran’s retaliatory moves in battlefield. “Our response to this aggression ... Read More »
An ISIS attack against the West is a question of timing — “not of inevitably, not of intent,” according to the former head of the CIA, retired Gen. Michael Hayden Speaking to CNN’s Jim Sciutto on “Fareed Zakaria GPS,” Hayden said he expects ISIS to attempt an attack on targets in the United States or Europe. “ISIS is a very ... Read More »
American freelance journalist Peter Theo Curtis held hostage by al-Qaeda militants in Syria for some two years has been handed over to UN peacekeeping forces. US Secretary of State John Kerry has confirmed the release of Curtis, adding the White House is using “every diplomatic, intelligence and military tool” to free other Americans in militant captivity in Syria. The US ... Read More »
By Tony Capaccio – While Iran’s military has toned down its rhetoric about military capabilities and exercises, it continues a low-profile buildup of weapons in and near the Strait of Hormuz, according to a classified Pentagon assessment. “Iran’s military strategy is defensive” and designed to “deter an attack, survive an initial strike, retaliate against an aggressor and force a diplomatic ... Read More »
Women’s rights for Iranian women and their legal status has changed during different political and historical eras. This includes Marriage law, divorce law, education rights, clothing and Hijab, health rights. Khomeini severely curtailed rights that women had become accustomed to under the shah. Within months of the founding of the Islamic Republic of Iran. The Daily Beast news site tries to ... Read More »