Russia, one of the few remaining friends of Bashar al-Assad's regime, just sent the Syrian government some advanced antiship missiles.
The state of New York is accusing U.K.-based Standard Chartered Bank of secretly doing business with Iran, fraudulently racking up hundreds of millions of dollars in fees, all the while dismissing an executive's pleas to straighten out with a dismissal of "you f---ing Americans."
In today's tour of state-sponsored propaganda, an Iranian truck driver gets her close up, a stamp dealer explains how he became an accidental propagandist for North Korea and Russia Today panders to a key Kremlin ally.
If toothless federal regulations is your pet cause, look to Iran for inspiration: It just sentenced four bankers involved in a billion-dollar financial scandal to death.
Iran does not appear to be backing down from an increased U.S. Naval presence in their backyard, as The Washington Post reports a buildup in their "capabilities" that can threaten American vessels.
In today's tour of state-sponsored propaganda: Iran spots a spooky trend in America, China cleans up its flood coverage and a propaganda legend dies.
Some Iranians are facing the wrath of the country's "morality police" for dressing in ways they deem aren't Islamic enough, usually because they're pairing their traditional hijabs with stylish jeans or a fancy jacket.
As more details surface about the suicide bomber who killed six people in an attack on Israeli tourists Wednesday, the Obama administration's refusal to blame Iran remains a mystery.
A summary of the best reads found behind the paywall of The New York Times.
In today's tour of state-sponsored propaganda: North Koreans dance for their Supreme Commander, the war on women comes to Zimbabwe and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad issues his vaguest threat yet. We begin in Pyongyang.
Little is know about the terrorist who carried out an apparent suicide bombing on a bus full of Israeli tourists in Bulgaria, but one detail to emerge is that he was carrying a fake Michigan drivers license listing a Louisiana address.
The shadow war between Iran and Israel may have reached a tipping point Wednesday following the bombing of a bus carrying Israeli tourists in the Bulgarian vacation city of Bourgas.
In today's tour of state-sponsored propaganda: Iran gets whimsical about its navy, China disses Hillary, and Russia slashes its propaganda outlets.
In today's tour of state-sponsored propaganda: China pooh-poohs democracy, the BBC gets in the hacking business and Syria flexes its muscles.
A summary of the best reads found behind the paywall of The New York Times.
A summary of the best reads found behind the paywall of The New York Times.
On the same day The New York Times reports about a major U.S. naval build up in the Persian Gulf, the Iranian military is bragging about missile tests that can threaten Israel.
Late last month, syndicated columnist Clarence Page appeared at a rally in Paris in support of the Mujahadin-e Khalq (MEK), an Iranian group that has been lobbying Washington to be removed from the U.S. government’s list of designated foreign terrorist organizations.
A summary of the best reads found behind the paywall of The New York Times.
An Iranian government-sponsored organization is developing a videogame called The Stressful Life of Salman Rushdie and Implementation of his Verdict, a game that if played right, presumably doesn't end well for the Satanic Verses author.
As Turkey, NATO, and the United Nations all struggle with an appropriate response to Syria's continued flouting of international norms, Iran is now offering its services as a peacemaker.
In today's tour of state-sponsored propaganda: Iran cheers the end of a computer virus, paywalls give an unexpected boost to state-run newspapers and America's propaganda arms faces a setback in Iraq.
Today in Ad Watch: Mitt Romney makes his first negative TV ad about Obama's "doing fine" comment, Obama says Romney grew the debt in Massachusetts, and a Republican group urges action on Iran.
The conflict in Syria isn't officially labeled a civil war but the denomination gained new validity in the last 24 hours following a series of developments on the ground including land grabs and weapons buildups.
In today's tour of state-sponsored propaganda: Egyptian TV goes xenophobic, multinational corporations get in bed with North Korea and Cuba shares its reading list. We begin in Egypt.
John Kerry and the New York Times are having a debate about journalism. It all started when Kerry was asked by CNN's Ted Barrett if he thought The Times should have held their story on President Obama's ordering cyberattacks against Iran's nuclear program "for national security reasons."
The cat is out of the bag: The United States is the first known country to carry out a sustained cyber attack with the intent of destroying another country's infrastructure.
According to a new book, excerpted in The New York Times today, the United States has been quietly waging a secret cyber war designed to take down the Iranian nuclear program.
In today's tour of state-sponsored propaganda: the 99 percent conspire to overthrow the U.S., Cuba's Hollywood hero Benicio del Toro slams America, and PBS stars in an Al Qaeda propaganda film.
The West has been hoping to convince Iran to reduce their nuclear development, but announcements the country made on state television Saturday show they have no sign of slowing down.
A new report says that Iran has enough uranium on hand that it could build up to five nuclear missiles, if it really wanted to.
The stakes loom large as six world powers meet in Baghdad today to agree on curbing Iran's nuclear program
President Obama invited world leaders from France, Germany, the UK, Canada, Italy, Japan and Russia, aka the G8, to a retreat in Camp David for the weekend, and they're coming to agreements on all kinds of big issues.
Last week, the Department of Homeland Security revealed a rash of cyber attacks on natural gas pipeline companies. Just as with previous cyber attacks on infrastructure, there was no known physical damage. But security experts worry it may only be a matter of time.
The Obama administration is moving to delist an Iranian dissident group from the State Department terrorism list, which, as recently as January, placed a magnetic bomb under the car of Iranian scientist, according to U.S. officials.
In today's tour of state-sponsored propaganda: China addresses the Dalai Lama's "murky psychology," Iran cracks down a rapper and Venezuela tries to define propaganda.
There's a perfectly rational explanation for why a U.N. nuclear inspector was killed in Iran today but it's much less intriguing than the conspiracy theories spreading online.
There's news coming out of Iran today that's tailor-made for conspiracy theories: According to The Associated Press, officials have confirmed that an IAEA inspector has died and another was severely injured in a car accident in central Iran.
Remember back in 2008, when Iran Photoshopped an extra missile into a photograph of its missile test? Turns out, bad habits die hard.
When she isn't the subject of an odd "kiss" story with blind Chinese dissidents, Hillary Clinton actually has a real job to do and it means laying down the law for Chinese officials about North Korea, Iran and Syria--which is what she did today in Beijing.
For the last year or so, the world has been on high alert that a war between Iran and Israel could start at any moment.
Iran's reverse-engineering of a U.S. Sentinel drone was either a complete hoax or an unprecedented intelligence coup.
Today, President Obama announced new sanctions for technology used in human rights abuses in Iran and Syria. What he didn't mention is that a lot of that technology comes from U.S. companies.
Even after a virus wiped data from the Iranian oil ministry's servers and forced the ministry to disconnect from the Internet late on Sunday, Iranian oil authorities are already acting like the breach is no big deal.
Iran is claiming they've finally cracked the computer system and accessed information stored on the U.S. drone they captured in December of last year, and now they're building their own.
In today's tour of state-run propaganda, Iran's propaganda outlet suddenly cares about propaganda, Egyptian state media enters the presidential race and China's People's Daily files for an IPO.
With one day left until the United Nations' special envoy Kofi Annan's cease-fire plan comes into effect, Syrian security forces are waging an unyielding campaign of violence against rebel forces across the country.
The White House wants us to know something important about Iran—but what is it?
M.E.K. might be the most infuriating thing you will read about the global war on terrror today: The New Yorker's Sy Hersh reports that during the Bush years, the U.S. military trained the Iranian opposition group even though it is and was on the State Department's list of foreign terrorist organizations.
After weeks of bluster, North Korea is finally going to fire a satellite into polar orbit next week, which raises several questions.
U.S. officials are calling it "humanitarian support," but a new push to directly intervene in the fighting in Syria sounds a lot like the opening of a proxy war.
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