War With Iran

Impeach Bush if He Attacks Iran

John W. Whitehead | Posted 05.27.2008 | Politics


John W. Whitehead

Bush's so-called "preemptive military action" suggests that whatever foreign nation does not stand with the US must, by default, stand against us.

Israel's 60th: On the Fast Track to the Apocalypse

Jayne Lyn Stahl | Posted 05.27.2008 | Politics


Jayne Lyn Stahl

Those who confuse preemptive with pro-active are those who deliberately blur the boundaries between civilization and chaos.

Russert Watch 5-18-08: In Which Tim Stays on the Surface About "Appeasement"

Todd Gitlin | Posted 06.02.2008 | Politics


Todd Gitlin

Russert turned to his usual routine, and tried unsuccessfully to nudge Webb into saying that he was at odds with Democrat orthodoxy about veterans and Iraq.

Bush's Sermon on Mount Masada

MJ Rosenberg | Posted 05.24.2008 | Politics


MJ Rosenberg

When Bush tells Israelis that he is ready for war on Israel's behalf, he is giving currency to an idea that harms Israel. And Jews.

On Obliterating Iran

Bob Ostertag | Posted 05.01.2008 | Politics


Bob Ostertag

Hillary's comment lobbed a time bomb into the Middle East tinderbox. It will have an impact on the view of America globally, and even possibly on the course of world events.

Iran Top Threat To Iraq, U.S. Says

Washington Post | Karen DeYoung | Posted 04.20.2008 | Politics


Last week's violence in Basra and Baghdad has convinced the Bush administration that actions by Iran, and not al-Qaeda, are the primary threat inside ...

Dick Cheney: Ahmadinejad Won't Respond To Nuclear Deterrence

Washington Post | Dan Froomkin | Posted 04.19.2008 | Politics


Vice President Cheney went on right-wing talk radio yesterday with a dramatic new argument for preventing Iran from getting nuclear weapons, casting t...

Petraeus: Iran "Behind Green Zone Attack"

BBC | Posted 04.01.2008 | Politics


The most senior US general in Iraq has said he has evidence that Iran was behind Sunday's bombardment of Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone. Gen ...

Babylon & Beyond: Fallon's Resignation Prompts Iran War Talk

LA Times | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


Just days after a controversial article in Esquire magazine described Adm. William J. Fallon as the man standing in the way of a Bush administration w...

Dems Try to Pre-Empt State of the Union

AP | LAURIE KELLMAN | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


WASHINGTON — Congressional Democrats, trying to have the first word on President Bush's State of the Union speech, challenged him Friday to reno...

Israel Launches Advanced Spy Satellite

AP | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


JERUSALEM — Israel launched an advanced spy satellite Monday that will be able to track events in Iran, the country it considers its top foe, ev...

Iran Leader Under Fire for Gas Shortages

AP | ALI AKBAR DAREINI | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


TEHRAN, Iran — Iran's supreme leader Monday reversed a decision by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and ordered him to implement a law supplying na...

Threatening Voice On Iran Boat Tape May Be "Filipino Monkey"

Associated Press | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


A threatening radio message at the end of a video showing Iranian patrol boats swarming near U.S. warships in the Persian Gulf may have come from a pr...

Bush Tells Israelis He Doesn't Believe Iran NIE Report

Newsweek | Michael Hirsh | Posted 03.28.2008 | 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...

UN Nuclear Chief Arrives In Iran

Associated Press | Nasser Karimi | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


The head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog began a two-day visit early Friday to discuss Iranian compliance with international demands over the country's n...

Pentagon Says Threat May Not Have Come From Iranian Boats

Think Progress | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


Earlier this week, the Pentagon said that three of its Navy ships in the Strait of Hormuz had been harassed and provoked by Iranian speedboats. The Na...

Iranian TV Airs Video Of US-Iran Naval Encounter In Persian Gulf

AP | LAUREN FRAYER | Posted 03.28.2008 | 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...

Video Recordings Show Iran-US Clash In Persian Gulf

AP | LOLITA C. BALDOR and SEBASTIAN ABBOT | Posted 03.28.2008 | 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...

U.S. Describes Confrontation With Iranian Boats

NY Times | THOM SHANKER and BRIAN KNOWLTON | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


Five armed Iranian speedboats approached three United States Navy warships in international waters in the strategic Strait of Hormuz on Sunday, then m...

U.S.: Iranians 'Were a Heartbeat From Being Blown Up'

ABC's The Blotter | Jonathan Karl | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


The standoff between three U.S. Navy ships and five Iranian speedboats in the Strait of Hormuz Sunday was one step away from turning violent. "They w...

Pentagon Says Iran Harassed US Ships

Associated Press | Pauline Jelinek | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


In what is being called a serious provocation, Iranian Revolutionary Guard boats harassed and provoked three U.S. Navy ships in the strategic Strait o...

Iran No Longer Aids Iraq Militants

Washinton Times | Sara Carter | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


Iran's leaders are no longer supplying weapons or training to Islamic militants in Iraq, the spokesman for the top U.S. commander in Iraq told The Was...

U.S. Wants Iran To "Confess" To Past Nuke Program

Associated Press | George Jahn | Posted 03.28.2008 | 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...

Giuliani: Iraq War Led Iran To Abandon Weapons Program

Political Radar | Jan Simmonds | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


Speaking to thousands of supporters through an internet webcast Thursday evening, Rudy Giuliani, R-N.Y., warned that Iran remained a "substantial thre...

Democrats Hit Bush's Credibility With New Iran Report

The Hill | Roxana Tiron | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


Congressional Democrats are capitalizing on the latest intelligence estimate on Iran's nuclear weapons development to question President Bush's credib...