Iran

Starbucks bans Press TV website but allows porn: Analyst

While giving online access to unrestricted pornography, Starbucks coffeehouse has blocked customers access to Press TV

Was Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad arrested by the Revolutionary Guard?

Not beyond the bounds of possibility given that Ahmadinejad is nearing the end of presidency and is not eligible for another term

Pentagon Bulks Up ‘Bunker Buster’ Bomb to Combat Iran

Pentagon upgrades its 30,000lbs bunker buster specifically to destroy Iran’s most heavily fortified subterranean sites

‘Iran strike only viable when sword is to throat’

Regarding the use of military force in answer to the perceived Iranian threat, former IDF chief of staff Lt.- Gen. Gabi Ashkenazi told CNN “Unless the sword is literally on your throat, you don’t use it”

Iran says use of chemical arms by anyone in Syria is “red line”

Echoing U.S. descriptions of the use of chemical weapons as a “red line”, Tehran says foreign backed opposition forces would be more likely to use them

Iran to unveil indigenous S-300 missiles: Army cmdr.

Iran says that it will unveil the Bavar 373 during the next Iranian calendar year. Once in service Iran will be able to fend off any air strikes. However, whether the U.S. and its allies strike before then is another matter

Analysis Israeli credibility on line over Iran nuclear challenge

Analysts say it now may be beyond Israel’s ability to seriously damage Iran’s widely scattered and heavily fortified nuclear installations

Analysis: Iran’s unlikely al Qaeda ties: fluid, murky and deteriorating

Making alleged Iranian links to an al Qaeda train plot in Canada all the more unlikely

UK bars Shell from paying Iran debt

Making sure that sanctions on Iran hit home

No Bunker-Buster Bomb in Israel’s U.S. Arms Deal

Although Defense Secretary Hagel says Israel has every right to defend itself, the latest U.S. arms deal with Israel notably omits to include the one weapon that could take out Iran’s deepest underground nuclear facilities

‘Israel seeks Turkish airbase to enable Iran strike’

Netanyahu’s national security adviser travels to Ankara offering advanced weapons technology in exchange for the use of an airbase from which to launch strikes on Iran

Report Urges White House to Rethink Iran Penalties

A study by former senior US officials, including several who recently left the Obama administration, plus outside experts, has concluded that sanctions “may be sowing the seeds of long-term alienation between the Iranian people and the United States.”

Senate c’tee: US will aid Israel if it strikes Iran

Effectively giving Israel the green light to attack Iran

US Promised to Prevent War in Syria If Damascus Broke Ties with Iran

This corroborates what we were told by a good psychic friend. Namely that the ultimate objective behind America’s ongoing manoeuvres in the Middle East is the overthrow of the current regime in Tehran

Sanctions on Iran may not be enough: Israeli PM Netanyahu

Meanwhile the steady Zionist drumbeat for war with Iran continues …

Iran says it test-fires new land-to-sea missile in Gulf

If claims about its operational capability are true, Iran has just taken a major step forward with its missile technology

Israel capable of attacking Iran on own: army chief

Yes, but will it be able to sustain the casualties when and if it does. Or is Gantz indirectly pressing America to attack Iran?

Deputy Minister: No ‘Time Machine’ Invention Registered in Iran

Deputy Minister: No ‘Time Machine’ Invention Registered in Iran

The Western press has recently made great play about claims of an Iranian pioneered a “time machine”, as if this was another absurd Iranian government boast. Yet Iranian officials have also dismissed the claims

Israel, US arm al-Qaeda to break Syria into pieces: Dr. Kevin Barrett

Press TV talks to Dr. Kevin Barrett about the situation in Syria. Includes video

Kerry in Mideast to form anti-Iran war coalition: Report

Kerry in Mideast to form anti-Iran war coalition: Report

An unnamed security official said on Wednesday that U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry was visiting the Middle East to form a regional coalition against Iran