Bush Tells Israelis He Doesn't Believe Iran NIE Report
In public, President Bush has been careful to reassure Israel and other allies that he still sees Iran as a threat, while not disavowing his administr...
In public, President Bush has been careful to reassure Israel and other allies that he still sees Iran as a threat, while not disavowing his administr...
AP | LAUREN FRAYER | Posted 01.10.2008 | Politics
Iran aired video Thursday of its boats and U.S. naval ships in the Persian Gulf in an apparent attempt to show that there was no confrontation between...
AP | LOLITA C. BALDOR and SEBASTIAN ABBOT | Posted 01.08.2008 | Politics
Small Iranian fast boats swarmed around massive U.S. warships in the Persian Gulf, and a man speaking heavily accented English threatened, "I am comin...
NY Times | THOM SHANKER and BRIAN KNOWLTON | Posted 01.08.2008 | Politics
Five armed Iranian speedboats approached three United States Navy warships in international waters in the strategic Strait of Hormuz on Sunday, then m...
Associated Press | George Jahn | Posted 12.21.2007 | Politics
Iran must "confess" to running a past nuclear weapons program or its claims of cooperating with a U.N. investigation will not be credible, the chief U...
Nathan Gonzalez | Posted 12.16.2007 | Politics
What the findings of the NIE won't tell us is that U.S.-Iranian relations and stability in the Middle East need not be tied to Iran's nuclear program.
AP | LAURIE COPANS | Posted 12.15.2007 | Politics
Israel's public security minister warned Saturday that a U.S. intelligence report that said Iran is no longer developing nuclear arms could lead to a ...
AP | PAMELA HESS | Posted 12.12.2007 | Politics
Some Republicans in Congress are second-guessing a government intelligence report that Iran has abandoned its nuclear weapons program. They want a sec...
Robert J. Elisberg | Posted 12.11.2007 | Politics
If you're going to be a true vice president, after all, you ought to have some vice to show for it.
Philip Giraldi | Posted 12.10.2007 | Politics
The neocons who have been calling for an assault on Tehran have lashed out, indicating that agenda driven ideology trumps reality every time. The pundits who wanted a war last week still want one this week, NIE be damned.
Political Radar | Jan Simmonds | Posted 12.07.2007 | Politics
Speaking to thousands of supporters through an internet webcast Thursday evening, Rudy Giuliani, R-N.Y., warned that Iran remained a "substantial thre...
Variety | Brian Lowry | Posted 12.06.2007 | Media
The latest National Intelligence Estimate concluding that Iran discontinued its nuclear weapons program four years ago has claimed one casualty: CNN h...
Benjamin R. Barber | Posted 12.05.2007 | Politics
There is a problem with intelligence itself. It's always incomplete and biased; not just by those who use it for devious political purposes, but by those who collect, analyze and interpret it.
Bob Franken | Posted 12.05.2007 | Politics
There is only one conclusion to draw: Iran is probably just days away from testing its own fully developed nuke.
Robert Naiman | Posted 12.05.2007 | Politics
If there was ever a time when sustained public and Congressional pressure could force a fundamental change in U.S. policy towards Iran, this is it.
AP | BEN FELLER | Posted 12.05.2007 | Home
President Bush, trying to keep pressure on Iran, called on Tehran Wednesday to "come clean" about the scope of its nuclear activities or else face di...
Bob Cesca | Posted 12.05.2007 | Politics
The foreign policy of the U.S. is now to threaten war against any nation that has the knowledge to build a nuclear bomb regardless of intent, materials or an actual, you know, nuclear weapons program.
Rand Beers | Posted 12.04.2007 | Politics
The findings of the NIE on Iran create a tremendous opportunity. Yet after the president's press conference today this is an opening the Bush administration will likely miss.
Editor and Publisher | Greg Mitchell | Posted 12.04.2007 | Media
Press reports so far have suggested that the belated release of the National Intelligence Estimate yesterday throwing cold water on oft-repeated claim...
Huffington Post | Danny Shea | Posted 12.04.2007 | Media
At this morning's press conference on Iran, serious talk eventually dwindled and the President made small talk with reporters. When conversation turn...
Associated Press | Posted 12.04.2007 | Politics
President Bush, entrenched in disputes with Congress over spending and the war in Iraq, wants to intensify pressure on lawmakers when he addresses the...
Huffington Post | Nicholas Graham | Posted 12.03.2007 | Politics
An explosive new U.S. intelligence report has concluded that Iran halted its nuclear weapons program in 2003. Read below for statements on the report ...
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Newsweek | Michael Hirsh | Posted 01.14.2008 | Politics