Russia, one of the few remaining friends of Bashar al-Assad's regime, just sent the Syrian government some advanced antiship missiles.
President Obama approved a new round of sanctions on Iranian oil Friday in what must have been a complicated judgement call that weighed diplomatic strategy against Iran and gas price-related election year politics.
Iran has revoked the press credentials for Reuters reporters in Tehran, the news organization announced Thursday, after Iranian state television said a group of Iranian female ninjas was suing the outlet.
Neighbor-on-neighbor violence between Sunnis and Shiites is breaking out across Syria, according to reports, and some fear sectarian strife could spread beyond the country's borders.
In today's tour of state-run propaganda, Mali goes off air, Iranian media betrays its favorite U.S. presidential candidate, North Korea's Andy Warhol is profiled by CNN and propaganda gets out of control in the Middle East.
The Atlantic Wire has confused Michele Bachmann about Iran's nuclear program and we feel terrible about it.
Government scientists find it "disappointing" that “current political conditions will not allow use" of a nuclear-powered drone that can fly around the Earth for months.
The Obama administration has repeatedly vowed that there is "no daylight" between the U.S. and Israel when it comes to Iran, but a pair of new reports show how false the claim actually is.
Despite reports that the American military is not bullish about an attack on Iran, it seems some Israelis are more optimistic about their ability to shut down Iran without a full-blown war erupting.
U.S. troops recently finished up a two week-long war game designed to measure what would happen should we get involved in an Israeli attack on Iran. Unsurprisingly, the outcome was not positive.
As Israel and Iran continue to up the ante in their nuclear standoff, a campaign for peace between the two countries springs up on Facebook.
A research group in Washington has pinpointed on satellite imagery what it says is the Iranian military testing facility that has long eluded U.N. inspectors.
A cease-fire along the Israeli border with Gaza appears to be holding, mostly, and now that things have calmed down an Israeli official put the fighting into perspective for the rest of us: The whole thing was basically practice for a war with Iran.
The casualty count in the missile exchange between Israelis and Palestinians over the weekend has climbed to 21 Gazans but only two seriously wounded Israelis, bringing new focus to Israel's "Iron Dome" anti-missile system, which has worked so well in the lastest skirmish Israel wants to triple its size in a year.
The Pentagon is preparing an array of military options for striking Iran if hard-hitting diplomatic and economic sanctions fail to persuade Tehran to drop its nuclear ambitions, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta told National Journal in an interview Thursday.
One Israeli newspaper thinks it knows what was discussed between Obama and Netanyahu behind closed doors Monday: bunker-busters and planes for a possible strike on Iran.
Several anonymous diplomats told the Associated Press about satellite images of Iran cleaning up a military site after the country announced that they'll allow nuclear inspectors in, which seems, well, suspicious.
It's been a big week of news for Russia, Iran, and Syria, which means their propaganda mills have been working overtime.
Cartoonist Nick Anderson thinks it's a matter of putting your money where your mouth is.
Nuclear inspectors investigating Iran have been particularly focused on a site in Parchin, especially since they've been specifically denied access there.
All the Republican candidates have gone after Barack Obama for his handling of the Iranian problem, but if one of them gets elected president, would they really handle things any differently?
President Obama's pledge that the United States "will always have Israel's back" and will attack Iran if it develops a nuclear weapon reverberated across the world Monday.
The race to prove who's more pro-Israel received a steroid injection this week with President Obama's speech before the American Israel Public Affairs Committee Sunday and today's visit to the White House by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
The former U.S. marine on death row in Iran got a reprieve on Monday when the supreme court there dismissed his death sentence and ordered a new hearing as U.S. President Barack Obama planned to meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Speaking to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee policy conference in Washington today, the president -- whose allegiance to Israel has been called repeatedly into question by members of the GOP -- made his support forcefully clear.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is touting his ability to use military power against Iran in the near future, telling Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, "Like any sovereign country, we reserve the right to defend ourselves against a country that calls and works for our destruction."
Bluffing, the dangers of letting Iran play the victim, and the lack of buddy-buddy time with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu--it's all in The Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg's interview with President Obama.
Voters across Iran are heading to the polls for the first parliamentary election since the 2009 presidential vote that to a bloody crackdown on opposition activists.
Need a sign that the U.S. and European Union embargoes on Iranian oil are working? The sanction-slapped country's central bank governor announced on Tuesday that it will now implement a barter system, accepting gold from its dwindling number of trading partners.
Israeli officials have let it be known that they won't give their United States counterparts a heads up if the country decides to launch an airstrike against Iran.
Painting a scary picture of a world with a nuclear-armed Iran, The Economist nevertheless argues emphatically against mounting an airstrike against the Islamic state.
The natural assumption is that the end game for Iran's nuclear energy efforts is an atomic bomb sitting on top of a long-range ballistic missile, but intelligence agencies secretly think that may not be the case.
Iran can banish U.N. inspectors from its military sites but it can't obstruct the prying eyes of commercial satellites.
It's official: The United Nations nuclear inspections many thought Iran wouldn't let happen, didn't happen.
Thanks to a host of military analysts, cartographers, and TV graphics departments, we have plenty of ideas about how an Israeli airstrike on Iran's nuclear facilities would be carried out.
The Associated Press reports that a foiled plot to assassinate Israeli targets in Azerbaijan might make the central European country the latest front in a proxy war between Israel and Iran.
Iran's been dominating the news and it shows -- a Gallup poll found that 32 percent of Americans believe that Iran is the greatest threat to the U.S., followed by China, North Korea, Afghanistan, and Iraq.
The prospect of a nuclear-armed Tehran has loomed over discussions about a military intervention in Iran for years, but only recently have the country's ties to Al Qaeda crept into the mainstream.
Thai police have confirmed that the three Iranian "Bangkok Bombers" were targeting Israeli diplomats, supporting Israel's claim that Iran was behind the attacks.
It probably wasn't the reaction Tehran was hoping for following the much hyped announcement that it had developed "advanced nuclear centrifuges," but the televised display of achievement is garnering shrugs in some of the places that matter most.
As Israel's ambassador to Thailand connected the explosions there to recent attacks in India and Georgia, escalating the war-like rhetoric as Malaysian police arrested a third Iranian suspect in the Bangkok blasts on Wednesday.
Iran is making two bold moves today in its ongoing showdown with the West, by announcing that it will load home-made nuclear fuel rods into a research reactor, and at the same time, that it will cut oil exports to six European countries.
Some call it a proxy war, others call it a "shadow war," but whatever you want to call it, a tit-for-tat assassination campaign between Iran and Israel seems to be playing out across state capitals around the world.
With U.S.-Iran tensions looming and Iran's various threats to close the Strait of Hormuz, the USS Abraham Lincoln sailed through the strait for the second time in recent weeks on Tuesday.
A man Thai authorities said was Iranian maimed himself with a grenade trying to escape from police after a cache of explosives he allegedly kept blew up his house.
Today marks the 33rd anniversary of the Islamic Revolution in Iran, a day marked by internet censorship and disturbing promises from President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad that the country is poised to reveal "big new" nuclear achievements
Saturday marks the 33rd anniversary of the Islamic Revolution in Iran, and with a new wave of anti-government protests expected to mark the occasion, the government there has reportedly gotten nervous enough to turn off the Internet, or at least restrict it considerably.
U.S. officials are confirming what Iran (and lots of other observers) had always suspected: Israel is supporting those terrorists who have been taking out nuclear scientists in Iran.
The latest in posturing from Iran involves reminding the world (and the U.S. in particular) that it has long-range missile that could hit the U.S. anywhere -- which is hardly surprising, since Israel was making that claim last week.
Reuters is out with a report that China is buying up oil from Saudi Arabia and other sources to reduce the amount it depends on Iran as it negotiates prices with Tehran
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