Iran Nuclear Weapons

Iran's Supreme Leader: U.S. Nuke Accusations Wrong

AP | NASSER KARIMI | Posted 11.20.2009 | Politics


TEHRAN, Iran — Iran's supreme leader said Sunday that U.S. officials know they are wrongly accusing Iran of seeking to develop nuclear weapons. ...

Iran Can Make Nuclear Bomb: Atomic Watchdog

AP | GEORGE JAHN | Posted 11.17.2009 | World


VIENNA — Iran experts at the U.N.'s nuclear monitoring agency believe that Tehran has the ability to make a nuclear bomb and worked on developin...

Israeli Government: Iran Not A Threat

MJ Rosenberg | Posted 11.17.2009 | World


MJ Rosenberg

The AIPAC crowd is going to have a hard time with this. Israel's uber-hawk Defense Minister, Ehud Barak, says that an Iranian nuclear weapon would not pose an existential threat to Israel.

Iran, World Powers To Meet Over Nuclear Program For First Time In A Year

AP | GEORGE JAHN | Posted 11.14.2009 | World


VIENNA — Iran warned the U.S. and Israel on Monday it will repel any attack – while also tamping down tensions by agreeing to meet with Wa...

The Road to Tehran Does Not Run Through Moscow

Jeffrey Mankoff | Posted 11.12.2009 | World


Jeffrey Mankoff

Washington's long quest for Russian aid has failed, and the Obama Administration needs to shift its focus elsewhere while it still has time to prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons.

Iran: Nuclear Talks With U.S., Partner Nations Are Possible

AP | JIM KUHNHENN | Posted 11.12.2009 | World


MINNEAPOLIS — The White House said Saturday that international talks with Iran should focus on the country's nuclear program, a topic Tehran had...

Iranian Nuke Proposal Falls Short Of Western Demands

AP | GEORGE JAHN | Posted 11.11.2009 | World


VIENNA — Iran's new offer for talks with six world powers ignores their key demand of a freeze of Tehran's uranium enrichment program, according...

Iran Could Expedite Nuclear Bomb, U.S. Says

The New York Times | DAVID E. SANGER | Posted 11.10.2009 | World


WASHINGTON--American intelligence agencies have concluded in recent months that Iran has created enough nuclear fuel to make a rapid, if risky, sprint...

IAEA Session: US Says It Has "Serious Concern" That Iran Can Create A Bomb

AP | Posted 11.09.2009 | World


VIENNA — The United States says it has "serious concerns" that Iran is deliberately trying – at a minimum – to preserve a nuclear we...

Iran Says US Nuke Documents 'Forged'

AP | WILLIAM J. KOLE | Posted 10.20.2009 | World


VIENNA — Iran accused the U.S. on Friday of using "forged documents" and relying on subterfuge to make its case that Tehran is trying to build a...

Iran Approves First Female Minister

AP | ALI AKBAR DAREINI and SEBASTIAN ABBOT | Posted 10.19.2009 | World


TEHRAN, Iran — President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad received a broad mandate Thursday as parliament backed his main Cabinet choices – naming the ...

Iran's Nuclear Threat Hyped: UN Watchdog

AP | WILLIAM J. KOLE | Posted 10.18.2009 | World


VIENNA — The global threat posed by Iran's suspect nuclear program is "hyped" because there's no hard proof that Tehran has an ongoing effort to...

Iran Is Ready For Nuclear Talks, Official Says

AP | ALI AKBAR DAREINI | Posted 10.17.2009 | World


TEHRAN, Iran — Iran's top nuclear negotiator offered an opening Tuesday for possible compromise with the West, saying the Islamic regime is read...

Iran Has A New Nuclear Program

AP | ALI AKBAR DAREINI | Posted 10.17.2009 | World


TEHRAN, Iran — Iran's top nuclear negotiator offered an opening Tuesday for possible compromise with the West, saying the Islamic regime is read...

Nuclear Disarmament: Let's Support President Obama

Jonathan Granoff | Posted 09.27.2009 | Home


Jonathan Granoff

As the Berlin Wall came down, as the wall of apartheid came down, it is time to take down the wall of nuclear weapons.

Iran Gas Ban: Step Toward War With Iran?

Michael T. Klare | Posted 09.25.2009 | World


Michael T. Klare

A U.S. oil embargo on Iran appears risky, both because it would strengthen the hand of conservative clerics in Tehran and could entail a naval blockade, setting off a chain reaction.

Iran Inside Out Shocks and Provokes at the Chelsea Art Museum

Marissa Bronfman | Posted 09.13.2009 | New York


Marissa Bronfman

Iran Inside Out offers a veritable platter of provocative work that begs for discussion, debate and perhaps most importantly, an open mind.

Iran Calls For Ban On Striking Nuke Facilities

AP | GEORGE JAHN | Posted 09.12.2009 | World


VIENNA, Austria — Iran, whose nuclear facilities are under threat of possible Israeli military strikes, proposed Wednesday that a 150-nation con...

With Iran, a Tactical Pause Is Needed

Trita Parsi | Posted 09.10.2009 | World


Trita Parsi

The best way to enhance prospects for diplomacy with Iran might actually be not to pursue diplomacy for now. Better instead to make a tactical pause and be ready to engage at the right time.

Obama's Big Mideast Push

Eric Margolis | Posted 09.07.2009 | World


Eric Margolis

Some of the administration's biggest guns have been sent to the Mideast in an all-out effort to get America's squabbling allies and clients to accept a comprehensive regional peace deal.

When All You Have is a Hammer, Every Iran Problem Looks Like a Nail

Patrick Disney | Posted 09.07.2009 | World


Patrick Disney

While Ahmadinejad is at the podium in the UN, Congress is expected to impose what it calls "crippling sanctions" on Iran's economy. But this plan has number of obvious flaws.

Biden "Jesus Christ" Called "Hate Speech" By Conservative

The Huffington Post | Susan Crile | Posted 09.03.2009 | Politics


Mark Tapscott, the editorial page editor of the conservative Washington Examiner, has nothing but fire and brimstone for Joe Biden. In an op-ed last ...

Obama Administration Forms Iran Policy To 'Inject A Degree Of Rationality Into The Relationship'

New York Times | Posted 08.31.2009 | World


The silent protest began in Imam Khomeini Square in front of the forbidding Ministry of Telecommunications, which was busy cutting off cellphones but ...

Western Hubris Won't Reform Iran

Kevin Sullivan | Posted 08.29.2009 | World


Kevin Sullivan

A genuine reform movement in Iran will likely take years, if not decades, to foment and prosper. The courageous youth in green may yet win the day, whenever that day comes.

Israel: Brazil Can Help Stop Iran's Nuclear Program

AP | MARCO SIBAJA | Posted 08.22.2009 | World


BRASILIA, Brazil — Israel's foreign minister met with Brazil's president Wednesday and asked Latin America's biggest nation to use its influence...