Is this good or bad news?

It's far from clear whether this is good or bad news, but the outgoing US General in charge of the USA's military Middle East affair...

Peter Beinart on Chuck Hagel: deterrence and involvement

The article by Peter Beinart on the brand new secretary of defense only confirmed for me the two things I already knew: that I admire Peter...

Good or bad news?

The title to this piece isn't meant to be funny or ironic: it's a genuine question. According to the Times of Israel, Ahmanedinejad...

Correction: it was the Israelis wot done - killed that Iranian Revolutionary Guard General

"Iran was quick last week to blame “mercenaries and supporters” of Israel for Shateri’s death, although it made no indication that he h...

Significant reduction in the ranks of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard. Israel blamed. So what's new?

Reuters reports (brought to us via the Foreign Policy online journal) that Syrian rebels have killed a senior Iranian revolutionary Guard o...

The globalization math exercise

Here is the input data for the calculation: A 59-year-old Iranian got busted by Duesseldorf (that's in Germany) airport customs for ca...

The mysterious Iranian jet and two mysterious monkeys

Jerusalem Post have decided to go into thrillers business, showering its readers with two exciting items in the same day. First, of course, ...

No further comment needed.

If the report is true (massive explosion at Iranian nuclear facility), no further comment is needed. Beyond saying that it couldn't ha...

Is Iran’s Fordow nuclear facility sabotaged?

So far the only source is Reza Kahlili , and the only venue is WND, which doesn't make the news very reliable, but as far as wishful thi...

The "in-your-dreams-department" of wishful thinking

I mean, we already know this, but it's nice to get confirmation of the facts. The Times of Israel is reporting that "Recently, the...

Iran competes for a place in Ripley's "Believe It Or Not" Compendium

The article starts with an interesting quote, to whit "An Iranian official is saying the country may open a controversial military sit...

Speaking (or pressing 'send') too soon

I should have know that I spoke too soon. No sooner had I pressed "send" on the previous item (that and this one via The Elder of ...

Couldnt happen to a nicer clerico-fascist regime

The Times of Israel has stumbled across a new virus apparently targeting Iranian computer systems. That's the reason for the heading to...

And here's another "It says here..."

I don't know where they get their information from (but then, I'm not a journalist with a contacts book), but The Times of Israel sa...

Now, if you really want to worry...

This , also from The Commentator, is scary, even if the comments below the article imply that it's not to be taken seriously. Me? I take...

The New Republic thinks the American people don't like the Iranian bomb any more than the US politicians

The New Republic was, back in the day, a distinctly liberal (and in the USA, that means pinko) journal. It may be a little less "left...

Speculating on Iran-Israel nuclear conflict: this way insanity waits

Boys usually indulge in fantasies of a "military" type, probably from the moment they are able to construct sentences of the ...

I'll believe it when it happens

It says, in the report via The Tablet that "European Union governments agreed further sanctions against Iran's banking, shipping a...

Why We Recoil at Unpleasant Sounds, or FARS against Mahmoud the Mad

Usually loyal to the hilt, this time FARS dared to put up an article with a well hidden, almost subliminal, but still detectable, criticism...

Great Prophet World Prize - the Islamic answer to Nobel

No kidding : Iran announced on Saturday that it plans to award Nobel-like science and technology prizes to selected Muslim scientists. And t...