Tag: Iran

  A senior Iranian commander says the country’s air defense forces have warned off an American U2 spy plane trying to fly over Iran’s borders. Brigadier...

Jim W. Dean - Mr. Engdahl brings us a top-to-bottom review of the energy wars behind much of the Mideast turmoil. VT has editorialized extensively that we see international crime as the main engine behind the current terror proxy wars and the New Cold War.

Jim W. Dean - The Iran sanctions triggered its "Manhattan program" to build up its own domestic weapons program using its skilled talent and industrial base, and Iran is much stronger militarily now than before the sanctions.

Jim W. Dean - It was a long time coming, but Iran is getting its S-300 defensive missiles finally in place, strangely guarding a facility that is no longer producing enriched uranium.

Jim W. Dean - The Saudi Arabia-Iran religious and geopolitical battle has heated up to being red hot. The current fireworks center around not only the negligence in the 2016 Hajji disaster, but the shabby way that Iran was treated over its inquiries.

Jim W. Dean - The Saudis are scrambling to sail their ship of state through stormy waters. They have come a long way since their thinking they had Iran on the mats, by keeping its oil off the market to run prices higher and maybe watch Israel or the US bomb its facilities.

An Italian military delegation has traveled to Iran to discuss the enhancement of bilateral military ties, and has invited Iranian naval groups to visit Italy’s territorial waters.

Iranian military officials did not mince words when a US drone tried to enter their airspace today.

Jim W. Dean - Iran pulls another major flanking move in the heart of the US/Asia Pivot, with its forging new major economic relations with the Muslim powerhouse of the region, Indonesia, while bridging the Shia-Sunni religious gap to do so.

Jim W. Dean -I am still waiting to see why no one is interested in finding out who helped themselves to the Shah's looted billions kept in foreign banks.

China’s recent announcement of an increase of its humanitarian support for the Syrian people and that it would provide additional training to the Syrian...

Jim W. Dean - The forward Iran basing of the Russian TU-23 bombers is a response to the US-NATO-Turkey's and Gulf State's reinforcement of both the jihadis and rebels during the ceasefire to put more pressure on Syria's allies to agree to remove Assad.

Russia decided to use the Hamadan airfield in Iran to prevent terrorists from spying on its strategic aircraft taking part in the Moscow-led counterterrorism...

Jim W. Dean - The tea leaves had indicated this move was coming, and it might be bigger yet. Things peaked today with articles about the Russian-Turkey-Iran "triangle" coalition against Daesh.

According to Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict, Mr. Adel al-Jubeir infamous for his timid and feminine personality reached Dakar International Airport and was received by Senegal's Defense and Deputy Foreign Minister Monsieur Augustin Tine.

Grand Ayatollah Khamenei's senior international adviser Dr. Ali Akbar Velayati said in an interview with Arabic-speaking news channel Al Mayadeen TV proclaimed that Islamic Republic of Iran has a whole gamut of options to safeguard its nuclear achievements and shall spare no effort to preserve its vital interests.

Switzerland’s highest court has rejected an appeal by an Israeli company against a verdict to pay Iran money owed over a joint venture set...

Finally, the Élysée Palace was persuaded by Adel al-Jubeir, the Saudi minister of foreign affairs , to buy low-priced crude oil that have tantalized Paris so much.

Iran FM Zarif - “They [US officials] are making a mistake because what they have lost so far as a result of the escalation of the Iranian nation’s distrust due to the US lack of commitment...”

Russia and Iran have agreed to hold joint military exercises, the newspaper Izvestia wrote, citing Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu who had earlier met with General Vali Madani, who leads the Iranian delegation at the International War Games 2016 now underway in Russia and Kazakhstan.

A cargo plane with $400 million in foreign currencies was secretly sent to Iran on the same day four Americans were released from Tehran, according to a WSJ report citing EU and US officials. Washington insists the timing of the two events is coincidence.

Angela Merkel has been cooperating with the Powers That Be since the beginning of time

Jim W. Dean - Iran lays out the obvious ploy, one ignored by Western media, to establish a rogue, but Western and Gulf State semi- caliphate permanent proxy terrorist entity in the rear of Damascus, Lebanon and Iraq.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Pakistani Parliament Speaker Sardar Ayaz Sadiq called on Tehran and Islamabad to increase their cooperation in fighting terrorism. "We need to fight issues...

This is the a post by the woman who is challenging John McCain in the Republican Primary for the US Senate.

In western-Arabic media, Iran is always known as the center of Shiism. They claim country has Inappropriate behavior toward its Sunni minority and in most cases has neglected their basic rights.

- Iran has a lot to offer the international ITER project to build the world's largest tokamak, a magnetic fusion device, Iranian experts told Sputnik. - Iran...

On Tuesday afternoon, 19 July Dr. Velayati met Dr. Mohamed Mulaiki Othman, Singapore's Foreign Minister exchanged views on regional issues and relations between the two countries.

Things in Iran have been mysteriously catching fire and exploding but no evidence of a culprit can be found, local authorities were most perplexed....

According to the documents obtained after the liberation of Fallujah, al-Hashemi have granted 50 thousand dollars as Zakat to those who called them Fallujah Mojahedin .

Iran has moved from number 12 out of 14 of Mid East countries in Foreign Direct investment (FDI). That is an amazing recovery from the regional perspective, with Iran now just behind the Saudis and the UAE, and we are only halfway through 2016.

  Iran has joined many in Syria, demanding Russia respond more aggressively to not just Israel but Turkey as well. Sources close to the Assad government...

Over the past week, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi met Prince Turki bin Abdullah, the son of Saudi Arabia's deceased king Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz, in a closed-door meeting in the Egyptian presidency, no statement has been issued in this regard, press briefing as is the case in most presidential meetings.

Al-Malah is a very important area that Syrian Arab Army will never overlook its strategic importance. SAA was determined to get terrorist militants out aiming at closing terrorist only road of military supply from Turkey.

TEHRAN (FNA)- A senior Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) official said the vulnerability and weak points of Israel's air defense shield called 'Iron Dome'...

The Chairman of Iran-Mauritania Parliamentary Friendship Group said: Iran and Mauritania are both standing in front of Takfiri thought.

The Representative of the Islamic Jihad movement said: the victory of Fallujah is a big and positive step in order to confront and destroy ISIS.

The Atomic Energy spokesman, Behrouz Kamalonda announced that Iran's ability in the nuclear field, and in the field of uranium enrichment in particular is very high.

Jim W. Dean - The US setting a precedent of holding any terror event on trial in a national court, and then seizing sovereign funds in a judgment case is going to have quite a ripple effect, as it gives the right, theoretically, for other countries to do the same.

“The word terrorism ... is now being used by the world’s biggest terrorists in Washington DC and Tel Aviv to demonize the people who are fighting terrorism..."