At the nation’s top spy agency, the ghosts of Iraq are never far away....
Michael T. Klare | Posted 04.01.2012
Oil, the prestige of global dominance, Iran's urge to be a regional power, and domestic political factors are all converging in a combustible mix to make the Strait of Hormuz the most dangerous place on the planet.
Majid Rafizadeh | Posted 01.09.2012
Ideologically speaking, by proclaiming itself the safe-guarder of Islamic values Iran has been challenging Saudi Arabia's position in the Middle East for decades.
Shai Baitel | Posted 05.25.2011
The last day of Obama in Iraq is approaching and one has to hope that it will not spell Ahmadinejad's first day there.
Michael Brenner | Posted 05.25.2011
The unpalatable truth for the promoters of the 'New Dawn' over the Tigris are that Iranian influence has eclipsed that of the United States, a fact of life regardless of whether we have 130,000 troops on the ground or 13.
AP | GEORGE JAHN | Posted 05.25.2011
VIENNA, Austria — Iran, whose nuclear facilities are under threat of possible Israeli military strikes, proposed Wednesday that a 150-nation con...
AP | KIM GAMEL | Posted 05.25.2011
BAGHDAD — Iraqi forces clashed with an Iranian opposition group for a second day Wednesday after storming a camp north of Baghdad despite U.S. a...
CNN | Posted 05.25.2011
Iran continues to "interfere" in Iraq, including training insurgents and paying surrogates, the U.S. commander in Iraq told CNN on Sunday. But Arm...
AP | ANNE GEARAN | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON — The Pentagon says U.S. soldiers are still finding large numbers of Iranian-made weapons in Iraq, despite's Iran's denials. Pentago...
Reuters | Posted 05.25.2011
Iran's case against U.S.-born journalist Roxana Saberi was based on her acquiring a confidential government report on the U.S. invasion of Iraq, one o...
Wired | Posted 05.25.2011
Iranian aircraft attacked three villages inside Iraq over the weekend. The airstrikes -- Iran's first on Iraqi soil since the U.S. invasion -- could c...
AP | HAMID AHMED | Posted 05.25.2011
BAGHDAD — One of Iran's most powerful political and religious figures _ former President Hashemi Rafsanjani _ promised Monday to assist in Iraq'...
BBC | Posted 05.25.2011
Iran offered to stop attacking British troops in Iraq to try to get the West to drop objections to Tehran's uranium enrichment project, a UK official ...
Reuters | Wisam Mohammed | Posted 05.25.2011
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has accepted an invitation to visit Baghdad, Iraq's Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday, a landmark trip that would make ...
McClatchy Newspapers | Steve Lannen | Posted 05.25.2011
A top U.S. military spokesman in Iraq said Sunday that the use of a lethal roadside bomb thought to come from Iran declined last week after a sharp i...
AFP | Posted 05.25.2011
The US ambassador in Baghdad, Ryan Crocker, expressed caution on Sunday on whether Iran was trying to curb bloodshed in Iraq, but acknowledged Tehran ...
Think Progress | Posted 05.25.2011
In light of the administration's increasingly threatening rhetoric on Iran, CQ reports that members of Congress are worried by Bush's recent budget pr...
New York Times | Posted 04.01.2012