us-iran relations

The US has assassinated a major Iranian leader overnight as a "target of opportunity" in an action that, according to CNN, was planned with only Republican members of Congress. Representatives of the Senate and the Minority Leader in the House (McCarthy) were seen leaving the secured area of...

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On the news; https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-48245204 Saudi complaining that oil tankers have been 'sabotaged'. Including one due to deliver oil to the US. Co-incidently (or not) the US has just moved military resources into the Gulf literally to threaten Iran. I suspect very...

How many 'revenge attacks', if you will, do you know of that can be potentially linked to the USS Vincennes downing of the Iranian Airbus in 1988? I thought this was really fascinating but I cannot find much info on it. If you know more information about this I'd like to hear it. Apparently...

The Wall Street Journal is reporting (paysite) that wiretap leaks reveal that the Obama Administration caught Netanyahu offering bribes to certain "on the fence" congressional Republicans to get their support against the Iran nuclear deal. Perhaps the most surprising aspect of the story is...

The clip was on Chris Matthews tonight but it would appear it is nothing new. He claims Iran will put a nuke on a ship and shoot it up into the atmosphere to send an EMP over the Eastern Seaboard and wipe out the electrical grid. Ted Cruz Says the Iran Nuclear Deal Could Lead to “˜Tens of...

Iranian revolutionary guard navy has siezed M/V Maersk Tigris from international waters, for violating it's terrirotial waters. Correct me if I'm wrong, but that qualifies as piracy on the high seas, no...

President Hassan Rouhani. “We will keep our promises within the framework of our national interest” * *Please note, the above is a quotation, not a synopsis. So, how does this equate with Iran's desperate need to develop a deployable nuclear weapon, and Kerry's attempts to keep the talks...

Here is a link to it: http://thehill.com/video/in-the-news/234429-live-netanyahu-speaks-to-congress I thought it was a good speech. I'll have to comment more when I have time, but I liked what he had to say overall. I'm interested in what fellow ISFers thought of it.

In response to the US Navy presence in the gulf Iran has decided to send their ships to approach the US maritime borders. http://news.msn.com/world/iran-sending-warships-close-to-us-borders?ocid=ansnews11+ Try as I might I can't take this seriously. It's like a mouse slapping a cat and saying...

Says it all:

This is the kind of endorsement that nobody wants. Apparently, Ayatollah Khameinei liked some of Obama's speech at AIPAC and praised him for promoting diplomacy over war. Now, none of us want diplomacy if we can have war instead so is Obama now toast...

I'm on the fence, and it's starting to give me haemorrhoids, so I wanted one of you to convincingly push me off onto one side. The question I've been asking myself is thus: If Iran gains a nuclear weapon, is it at all likely that they would 'wipe Israel off the map', ensuring their own...

Breach of rule 4 removed. Do not copy and paste articles from elsewhere. http://news.yahoo.com/war-iran-inevitable-184700566.html

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The Strait of Hormuz is one of the most important chokepoints in the world, something like 20% of the world's oil passes through it. Iran threatens to close it if export of their oil is blocked. Now, I doubt they are crazy enough to do this but if they can't export oil, their economy will be...

www.Debka.com I wonder if the Iranian students at the Sharif Technological University are considering a career shift?

Story: What, expecting something different? :D

I am losing patience with the triumvirate in our National Security Council. Fer the love of all that is cheeseburgers, Pakistan, a loser nation, a failed state, a basket case nation filled with fail, has nukes. Pakistan is a shabbily manufactured "nation state" that is at best the fecal...

This was sent to me by an advisory service: Which needless to say is rather scary. There also seems to have been an escalation of rhetoric in the news - accusations of murder plots, etc etc. So what do you think, will the US/Britain et al be at war with Iran this time next year?

Iran says it has shot down a US drone that invaded its airspace. The US says that it may have been one that went missing in Afghanistan a while back. Who's telling the truth? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-16024605 9T7Dx8ilyFw

Prepare for the next war, because, face it folks, it's only a matter of time before Iran develops a nuclear weapon. We couldn't stop the Russians, the CHinese, Or any one else, what makes them think that Iran will voluntarily stop? We can (maybe) slow the process down, but it's foolish to...

Didn't see a thread on it yet. http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2011/10/11/official-fbi-dea-disrupt-terror-plot-in-u-s-involving-iran/?hpt=hp_t1 Interesting stuff. Apparently there was a planned attack against the Saudi Ambassador in America (which is why I posted here, and not in the other forum )...

Not even being arrested and detained on trumped up charges by an Islamic fascist regime made them see the light. Putting the "idiot" back in useful idiot: God, what a bunch of prats. http://frontpagemag.com/2011/09/27/useful-idiots%E2%80%99-stockholm-syndrome/

http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/meast/08/20/iran.us.hikers/index.html?hpt=hp_t1 Do we have any Iranian spies we could trade for them? Assuming we want them back, that is.

That was back in 2007. http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/IL08Ak01.html We are nearly 2011. Are the Iranians any closer?

http://www.zcommunications.org/the-iranian-threat-by-noam-chomsky

'...US President Barack Obama has ordered the imposition of sanctions on eight senior Iranian officials for "sustained and severe violations of human rights". The treasury department said they would face a travel ban and asset freeze. ...' From...

Before anyone goes on a rant about failed American foreign policy in Iraq or Afghanistan, I'd like to know what the sane people here feel about a tactical preemptive strike by either Israel or the US on Iran's nuclear infrastructure. Considering the fact that Iran funds much of the global...

Charles Norrie has just published the full text of his Lockerbie theory on the internet, at http://www.adifferentviewonlockerbie.blogspot.com/ This is something he's hinted at for some time on Robert Black's blog, and occasionally revealed isolated snippets. Previously he had insisted that he...