Topic: Iran

House votes sanctions on Iran, North Korea, Syria

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. House of Representatives passed legislation on Wednesday that would expand sanctions on Iran, cracking down on a wider range of energy issues and closing some loopholes in existing energy and financial sanctions.Some senators in both parties are ...

House passes bill to expand sanctions on Iran

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. House of Representatives passed legislation on Wednesday that would expand sanctions on Iran, cracking down on a wider range of energy issues and closing some loopholes in existing energy and financial sanctions.Some senators in both parties are ...

Iran daily closed over Ahmadinejad aide interview

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iranian authorities shut down a reformist newspaper on Sunday after it published a scathing attack by an aide to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on the president's rival conservatives, the latest sign of a split in the highest echelons of the Islamic ...

Syrian opposition 'more cohesive,' US says

The Syrian opposition is becoming "more cohesive" and "more broadly representative" of the country as a whole, a US official said Friday.Mark Toner, the State Department's deputy spokesman, told CNN that a real opposition to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad was beginning to ...

Obama at AIPAC

On June 4 , 2008 , Barack Obama spoke to the pro-Israeli lobbying group AIPAC . Obama also expressed concern over Iran , saying that he would, "Do everything in my power to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon . All ...
The Middle East is considered volatile, yet there is reason to suspect that the region will become even more dangerous as people discover genuine nationalism. By that time, American authorities should complete transition from special relationship with Israel, to special relationship with ...
What with all the Washington pundits swashbuckling before Tuesday's election about why President Obama should and shouldn't rush back to the battlefront, you'd think national security might have been a bigger campaign issue. Besides the operational costs of the surge in Afghanistan ...
Of late there has been no shortage of news Items upon which has been for lack of a better term sensational. But by far and away the biggest news Item of the week was an airplane flown into a building that housed ...

War Of The Conservatives

"over one hundred thousand soldiers from all over the World Chasing the Enemy whose strength might not be more than ten thousand" The US and its friends are fighting a faceless enemy in the Middle East. His face became that of a ...
Liberals sit and watch while Iran arms, threatening the existence of Israel. Liberals face at least one perplexing and indomitable evil in 2010: Liberals are convinced that Sarah Palin and her stupidity are one of the great threats to America today. Palin ...
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