After the test launch of missiles, it's almost as if there wasn't a National Intelligence Estimate issued just last December that said that Iran's nuclear weapons program was stopped four years ago.
Graham Allison | Posted 02.22.2008 | Politics
The December 2007 National Intelligence Estimate raised new questions about Iran's nuclear program. Will the upcoming IAEA report address these questions?
NY Times | DAVID E. SANGER and WILLIAM J. BROAD | Posted 02.08.2008 | Politics
Iran has reportedly begun to deploy a new generation of machinery to produce nuclear fuel, a development bound to intensify a debate in Washington abo...
Omid Memarian | Posted 01.25.2008 | Media
There have been lots of outlets criticizing the fake story of speedboats. But mainstream media outlets did not cover the reality behind the story properly.
Newsweek | Michael Hirsh | Posted 01.14.2008 | Politics
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...
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...
Omid Memarian | Posted 12.20.2007 | Politics
The state of "no peace-no war" between the United States and Iran is not sustainable. It is either going to translate into some kind of a peace, or some sort of a war.
Marjorie Cohn | Posted 12.19.2007 | Politics
Just as "Operation Iraqi Freedom" was about corporate control over Iraq's oil, Bush's strategy on Iran is about making Iran safe for global investment.
Richard Holbrooke | Posted 12.18.2007 | Politics
A quote I gave a journalist almost two years ago has been recycled, out of context, to suggest that Sen. Clinton and I would contemplate going to war with Iran or other nations.
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.
Think Progress | Posted 12.14.2007 | Politics
Since the Iran NIE was released, conservatives have desperately tried to discredit it. Former Vice President Cheney aide David Wurmser questioned "how...
Robert Dreyfuss | Posted 12.14.2007 | Politics
My suspicion is that Europeans know exactly what is going on: that the more dovish elements in the American national security community brilliantly outflanked the hawks, and it's game over.
Charlie Rose | Posted 12.11.2007 | Politics
Mohammad Khazaee took over the job in July and this was his first U.S. television interview.
Gary Hart | Posted 12.07.2007 | Politics
By collecting new intelligence and placing it under more intense scrutiny, our intelligence experts suddenly become incompetents and "nincompoops" pursuing, according to Prof. Dershowitz, some nefarious agenda of their own.
John Seery | Posted 12.07.2007 | Politics
What exactly are we condemning when we denounce President Bush for his mendacity? It can't just be a nagging character flaw that bugs us. Nor are we political infants or innocents.
Gareth Porter | Posted 12.06.2007 | Politics
As we should expect, Bolton's attack is full of dishonest arguments, and it reveals the desperation of the war party.
Alan Dershowitz | Posted 12.06.2007 | Politics
The authors of the perverse NIE report, which is influencing policy so negatively, will have much to answer for if their assessment results in a reduction of pressure on Iran.
Think Progress | Posted 12.06.2007 | Politics
According to Haaretz, Israel has known about the Iran NIE "for more than a month. The first information on it was passed on to Defense Minister Ehud B...
Robert Scheer | Posted 12.06.2007 | Politics
It's depressing to see that the fanatical leader of a theocracy seems to have a higher regard for truth than does the president of the world's greatest experiment in representative democracy.
Joe Biden | Posted 12.06.2007 | Politics
If the President takes us to war with Iran without Congressional approval, I will call for his impeachment. I do not say this lightly or to be provocative. The Constitution is clear. And so am I.
Huff TV | Posted 12.05.2007 | Politics
Arianna discusses right-wing attacks on the latest NIE Iran report with Cliff May and Lawrence O'Donnell on Live with Dan Abrams.
CNN | Posted 12.05.2007 | Politics
President Bush was told in August that Iran's nuclear weapons program "may be suspended," the White House said Wednesday, which seemingly contradicts ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Thomas B. Edsall and Max Follmer | Posted 12.05.2007 | Politics
Four former CIA officials who provided intelligence information to past presidents described as preposterous President Bush's claim that he was unawar...
Jay Dyckman | Posted 12.05.2007 | Politics
Nothing gets him down. Iran? Whatever. Iraq? Sh*t happens. Katrina? Don't know her.
Hotline | Posted 12.05.2007 | Politics
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Harry Shearer | Posted 07.10.2008 | Media