Persian Gulf

LOOK: Arab Spring's Evolution

AP | The Associated Press | Posted 05.21.2012

Read More: Arab Spring Progress, Libya, Yemen, Video, Persian Gulf, Arab Spring, Arab Spring 2012, Tunisia, Arab Spring Countries, Egypt, Bahrain, Slideexpand, Syria, World News

-- Starting Wednesday, Egypt is holding its first free presidential election since it came under dictatorship 60 years ago. The winner will succeed H...

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Needs Over MEADS

Mark Pfeifle | Posted 04.24.2012

Read More: Persian Gulf, John McCain, Department of Defense, Missile Defense, Government Waste, Iran, Defense Spending, Leon Panetta, Defense Budget, North Korea, Meads, Politics News
Mark Pfeifle

For reasons that defy all logic, the administration wishes to spend yet another $400 million on MEADS, the Medium Extended Air Defense System, while simultaneously acknowledging that the missile system will never get off the ground.

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UAE Cancels Soccer Match Amid Mounting Tension With Iran

James Dorsey | Posted 04.17.2012

Read More: Sports, Persian Gulf, Iran, Islamic Republic of Iran, Iran Nuclear Program, Soccer, Iran Nuclear Weapons, Uae, World News
James Dorsey

It is not immediately clear why Mr. Ahmadinejad chose to provoke the UAE at a moment about its nuclear program in a bid to weaken international sanctions and reduce the risk of an Israeli and/or U.S. military strike.

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For Army Troops, Prescription Drugs May Add To Fog Of War

Los Angeles Times | Posted 04.08.2012

Read More: Iraq War, Mental Illness, Military Drugs, Persian Gulf, Military, Army, Robert Bales, Afghan War, US Troops, US Army Surgeon General, Drugs, World News

While there was some early, ad hoc use of psychotropic drugs in the Vietnam War, the modern Army psychiatrist's deployment kit is likely to include ni...

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A Dire Strait

Dan Rather | Posted 05.29.2012

Read More: Oil, Persian Gulf, Iran, Strait of Hormuz, US Navy, Strait of Hormuz Blockade, Iran Attack, Video, World News
Dan Rather

Two weeks ago, I made the transit through the Strait of Hormuz to the Arabian Sea. Surrounded by a destroyer, a missile cruiser and several Seahawk helicopters, we were hardly inconspicuous as we transited the Strait. And that is the point.

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Iran Tries Brotherly Love in the Persian Gulf Oil Game

Daniel J. Graeber | Posted 05.22.2012

Read More: Islamabad, Persian Gulf, Oil Fields, Saudi Arabia, Iranian Government, Oil, Iran, Tehran, Kuwait, Natural Gas Pipeline, World News
Daniel J. Graeber

With Kuwait allied with the United States and working more closely with Iran's long-time rivals in Riyadh, it's unlikely there will be any brotherly love in the Persian Gulf anytime soon.

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PHOTOS: Preservation And Poetry Of The Arabian Sea

Posted 03.07.2012

Read More: Photos, Arabian-Sea-Conservation, Video, Persian Gulf, Arabian Sea, National Geographic, Arabian Sea Photos, Nature Photos, Arabian Sea Preservation, Arabian Sea Images, Conservation, Slidewide, Oceans, Green News

From National Geographic Magazine: Today human hands are reaching deep into Arabia's seas and taking more treasure than the seas can possibly reple...

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David Wood

Cheap and Deadly: Iran's Sea Mines May Pose Challenge To U.S. Navy

HuffingtonPost.com | David Wood | Posted 02.28.2012

Read More: US Iran Negotiations, Fifth Fleet, Persian Gulf, Mine Warfare, USS Gladiator, Foreign Affairs, Persian Gulf War, Iran War, Iran, US Iran Talks, US-Iran, US Navy, World News

If the tense confrontation with Iran ignites into war, strategists say they expect Iran will strike with thousands of deadly sea mines to try to halt ...

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David Wood

Top Army General Cautions Against War With Iran

HuffingtonPost.com | David Wood | Posted 02.21.2012

Read More: Army Troop Cuts, Odierno, Persian Gulf, Ray Odierno, Joint-Chiefs-Iran, Iran Obama, Iran Sanctions, Iran, US Army, US-Army, US Army Troop Cuts, Obama and Iran, Syria, World News

WASHINGTON -- Anticipating continued trouble in the Middle East and a possible conflict with Iran, the Army got permission from the Obama administrat...

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"Doha Is a Colosseum"

Todd Reisz | Posted 03.24.2012

Read More: Architecture, Slidepollajax, Persian Gulf, Doha, Qatar, Olympics, Al Manakh, Cities, Slidefreestyle, World News
Todd Reisz

There is no city that has generated such a complex and multifaceted public campaign for itself. Real-time Doha, however, cannot compete with the city's media frenzy. That's a reality one confronts as soon as the sliding doors open at the airport (the gigantic new one is not yet open).

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U.S. Warns Top Iran Leader Not To Shut Strait Of Hormuz

The New York Times | Posted 01.13.2012

Read More: Gulf of Oman, Persian Gulf, Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Martin E. Dempsey, Jonathan W. Greenert, Strait of Hormuz, World News

The Obama administration is relying on a secret channel of communication to warn Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, that closing the Str...

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Danger Waters

Michael T. Klare | Posted 03.11.2012

Read More: Energy, Gas Prices, Persian Gulf, Bp, Strait of Hormuz, Oil, Iran, Cost of Oil, World News
Michael T. Klare

Welcome to an edgy world where a single incident at an energy "chokepoint" could set a region aflame, provoking bloody encounters, boosting oil prices, and putting the global economy at risk.

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Gunboat Diplomacy: A Maritime Field Guide to the Straits of Hormuz Crisis

Amb. Marc Ginsberg | Posted 03.07.2012

Read More: Straits of Hormuz, Ayatollah Khamenei, Iran, Persian Gulf, Arabian Sea, Bank Merkazi, 5th Fleet, Iran Revolutionary Guard Corps, European Union, Tehran, Oil, Brent Crude, Bahrain, World News
Amb. Marc Ginsberg

In the game of high stakes international chicken with Tehran, the better diplomacy is to turn the chairs and force the ayatollahs to blink first.

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Fool Me, I Don't Know, Six or Seven Times. Shall We Try for a Dozen?

Carl Pope | Posted 03.07.2012

Read More: Oil, Strait of Hormuz, Persian Gulf, Iran Oil, Middle East Oil, Persian Gulf Oil, Green News
Carl Pope

It's pathetic that we find ourselves here, almost fifty years after the first oil embargo, still utterly dependent on a single hydrocarbon molecule from a tiny, unstable, and largely hostile corner of the world, to conduct the very basics of our civilization.

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David Wood

Perfect Storm Of Threatened Crisis Roils Middle East

HuffingtonPost.com | David Wood | Posted 01.04.2012

Read More: Persian Gulf, Video, Austere Challenge, Foreign Affairs, US Iran, Iran Sanctions, Leon Panetta, Iran Nuclear Weapons, US Israel, Syria Conflict, World News

WASHINGTON -- Storm clouds darkening over the Middle East suggest a growing peril for the United States and the possibility of a new war that could em...

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Iran Delays Testing Long-Range Missiles, Ready For Nuclear Talks

Reuters | Posted 02.29.2012

Read More: Persian Gulf, Video, Tehran-Iran, Iran Nuclear, Fars-News, Strait of Hormuz, Iran Oil, Reuters, Iran, Tehran, Iran Nuclear Program, Israel, World News

TEHRAN, Dec 31 (Reuters) - Iran test-fired long range missiles on Saturday during a naval exercise in the Gulf, the semi-official Fars news agency rep...

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Iran Claims Footage Of U.S. Aircraft Carrier In Navy Drill Zone

AP | By NASSER KARIMI | Posted 02.28.2012

Read More: Video, Persian Gulf, United States Aircraft Carrier Iran, Iranian Navy, Iran, Iran US Aircraft Carrier, United States Iran, Iran Navy, World News

TEHRAN, Iran -- An Iranian surveillance plane has recorded video and photographed a U.S. aircraft carrier during Iran's ongoing navy drill near a stra...

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Just In Time -- Iran Threatens To Close Strait Of Hormuz To Oil Transit

Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 02.27.2012

Read More: u.s. Foreign Policy, Politics, Persian Gulf, World, Atomic Weaponry, Strait of Hormuz, Iran Oil Embargo, Iran Sanctions, Oil, Iran, Economic Destabilization, u.s. Navy 5th Fleet, Business News
Raymond J. Learsy

This time around the Iranians may well back off in the face of superior and more sophisticated firepower. But would they back off if their nuclear arsenal were in place, and would we be so sanguinely confident that they would desist or be ready to engage them in combat?

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Standoff: U.S. Warns Iran Not To Block Oil Route

AP | ALI AKBAR DAREINI and TAREK EL-TABLAWY | Posted 02.27.2012

Read More: US Iran, Persian Gulf, Iran, United States, United States Iran, Iran Oil, Strait of Hormuz, World News

TEHRAN, Iran — The U.S. strongly warned Iran on Wednesday against closing a vital Persian Gulf waterway that carries one-sixth of the world's oi...

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Doing the Right Thing in Bahrain

Sarah Trister | Posted 02.13.2012

Read More: US Arms Sales, Bahrain, Persian Gulf, Bahrain Protests, Middle East, World News
Sarah Trister

The international community and the United States, one of Bahrain's closest allies, must show the Bahraini government that empty-gestures and half-measures will not be acceptable.

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Exploring Iran's Dead Sea

Adam Valen Levinson | Posted 02.11.2012

Read More: Salt, Iran, Adventure, Dead Sea, Island, Dermatology, Slidepollajax, Persian Gulf, Qeshm, Video, Travel News
Adam Valen Levinson

The ceiling tapers back into the depths and looks like the inside of an icebox, dripping with pure white salt stalactites.

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A European Embargo on Iranian Oil and Our Strategic Petroleum Reserve

Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 01.30.2012

Read More: France, Iran, Politics, Persian Gulf, World, Strategic Petroleum Reserve, Saudi Arabia, Usnavy, Oil, President Sarkozy, Obama Administration, European Union, European Foreign Ministers Meeting, Business News
Raymond J. Learsy

Much has been written about commercial sanctions, but rarely about the truly overarching policy initiative that could take down the Iranian renegade regime, removing the risk of the world confronting nuclear armed fanatics. This, without firing a shot.

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Iran's Nuclear Ambitions And America's Misguidedly Dismissed Countervailing Option

Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 01.06.2012

Read More: Persian Gulf, Iran Nuclear, Saudi Arabia, Iran Oil Embargo, Oil, Iran, Iran Nuclear Program, American Oil Independence, Iran Nuclear Weapons, Business, Obama Administration, World News
Raymond J. Learsy

If we do not get the Persian Gulf states to support placing an effective oil embargo on Iran, perhaps we should contemplate letting these "allies" deal with Iran on their own.

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The News of Empire

Robert Koehler | Posted 01.03.2012

Read More: Iraq War, U.S. Troops, Persian Gulf, American Empire, Gulf Cooperation Council, Saudi Arabia, Occupy Wall Street, Bahrain, New York Times, Hillary Clinton, Kuwait, Barack Obama, Media News
Robert Koehler

Is there a democracy at either end of the missiles, warships or troop deployments? Suddenly I'm back on the sidewalk with the Occupy movement, which has arisen to confront the corporatocracy and its subservient media.

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As U.S. Departs Iraq, Obama Administration Shifts Focus Elsewhere

nytimes.com | Posted 12.30.2011

Read More: Iraq War, Persian Gulf, Foreign Affairs, Terrorism, War, Obama, US, Iraq, Persian Gulf Troops, World News

The Obama administration plans to bolster the American military presence in the Persian Gulf after it withdraws the remaining troops from Iraq this ye...

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