Read detail news By Qasim Nauman and Rebecca Conway ISLAMABAD | Fri Feb 24, 2012 9:47am GMT ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Iran has asked to import a million tonnes of wheat from Pakistan in a barter deal, a senior official in Islamabad said on Friday, as Tehran faces disruption to its food imports because of U.S. and European Union sanctions. Iran would export [...]

Read detail news TEHRAN, Iran—Iran’s defense minister warned that an Israeli attack on the Islamic Republic will lead to the collapse of the Jewish state, state television reported Saturday, in one of the strongest statements from Iran indicating it would retaliate should Israel attack its nuclear facilities. Israel has recently stepped up its verbal threats that it could attack Iran’s [...]

Read detail news WASHINGTON—An Israeli pre-emptive attack on Iran’s nuclear sites could draw the U.S. into a new Mideast conflict, a prospect dreaded by a war-weary Pentagon wary of new entanglements. That could mean pressing into service the top tier of American firepower—warplanes, warships, special operations forces and possibly airborne infantry—with unpredictable outcomes [...]

Read detail news JERUSALEM—Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered his ministers not to speak publicly about Iran, officials said Friday, in an apparent attempt at damage control before his upcoming trip to the White House. Netanyahu is set to visit Washington in early March, where he is expected to discuss the floundering peace process with the Palestinians, as well as Iran’s [...]

Read detail news A retired British businessman accused of plotting to ship missile parts to Iran says his extradition to the United States is “a disgrace.” Before Christopher Tappin left London Friday for an expected court appearance in El Paso, Texas, later in the day, he criticized the British government for not voiding an extradition agreement with the U.S. The 65-year-old Tappin said, [...]

Read detail news The US-Israel-Iran tournament is on. The curtain-raisers are stunning — sanctions, oil and banking embargoes, assassins attacking nuclear scientists in Iran and Israelis in Delhi. They couldn’t possibly cancel after this build-up, so I’ve quit speculating about the possibility of yet another war in Asia. Now, I wonder what they’ll [...]

Read detail news “Troubled” “Country” Created to Explain Fluctuation in Gas Prices to American Public “Thank God we also own CNN – ‘Middle East in Crisis’ is pretty much their default headline.” UNITED STATES DEPT. OF RECORDS, SAN DIEGO BRANCH – “It began as research into a story about international video piracy,” explains [...]

Read detail news VIENNA (AP) — Iran has rapidly ramped up production of higher-grade enriched uranium over the last few months, the U.N. nuclear agency said Friday, in a confidential report that feeds concerns about how quickly the Islamic republic could produce an atomic bomb. The report by the International Atomic Energy Agency also said Iran had failed to give a convincing explanation [...]

Read detail news The People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) has denied any involvement in the Bangkok bombing. Earlier, Syedsulaiman Husaini, a Shia leader in Thailand, claimed that the four Iranians suspected of involvement in a botched bomb plot in Bangkok were members of the exiled Iranian opposition group.Shahin Gobadi, the PMOI/MEK’s spokesman, stated [...]

Read detail news The United States is condemning reports that an Iranian court has upheld the death sentence for an Iranian Christian pastor convicted of apostasy, or abandoning the Muslim faith. The White House said Thursday Iran’s action against Pastor Youcef Nadarkhani is another “shocking breach” of its international obligations, its own constitution and stated religious values. [...]