Last month saw the popular election to the presidential office of a bearded and bespectacled cleric. Perhaps an image of the former Iranian president Mohammad

    Abbreviations    AIOC – Anglo-Iranian Oil Company     CIA – Central Intelligence Agency    NIOC – National Iranian Oil Company     SIS – British Secret Intelligence

This documentary is a must watch; exposing the truth about the 2002 CIA-backed coup against the Chavez government in Venezuela. Students of history and Iran’s

A little random. But I felt like posting Chavez’s ‘infamous’ or ‘inspired’ speech, depending on your political allegiances, at the UN ‘way back’ in 2006.

The London Independent’s Patrick Cockburn is simply the most important and well-informed journalist working in Iraq today. His new book Muqtada al-Sadr and the Fall

In this brief interview Ramin Jahanbegloo speaks of his time in solitary confinement, his interrogation and strategies to remain sane during a dark and highly

Mad Podhoretz: The Ideologue Behind the Campaign to Bomb Iran Norman Podhoretz is Editor-at-Large of Commentary, author most recently of World IV: The Struggle Against

Last month saw a series of protests and violent confrontations between Tibetans and Chinese security forces as sporadic clashes and violence spread across Tibet and

Barack Obama conceded to Hillary Rodham Clinton in the Pennsylvanian Democratic Primary last week. Though hardly a surprise to those eagerly following the campaign trail,

We know torture exists, we know it happens, but since it rarely intrudes into our daily lives we’re wont to think along the lines of

Joe Lauria’s article in The Huffington Post () is trenchant yet simple; what can I say other than it pinpoints the real motivations driving Bush-Cheney

“Ten people have been killed and 160 wounded in an explosion at a mosque in southern Iran, local media reports say. Authorities in the city

Make sure you check out this important report by Professor Roger Stern of Johns Hopkins University regarding Iran’s oil reserves. In a nutshell the paper

Here’s an interesting article by Elizabeth O’Donnell in Le Monde Diplomatique regarding the growth and development of fertility treatments in Iran.  I’ve pasted some paragraphs that were of particular

Will an Israeli Cabinet Minister’s threat of the ‘destruction of the Iranian nation’ receive as much attention as Ahmadi-Nejad’s mistranslated threat against Israel?  Check out

A new film entitled Fitna, the Arabic word for ‘dissension’, by Geert Wilders, a rightwing Dutch parliamentarian, shouldn’t be suppressed and should be made widely

Bravado, posturing and gnashing of teeth have long characterized US-Iranian relations. For almost thirty years, and in the aftermath of the 1979 Islamic Revolution which

I’m not embittered, haven’t been jilted at the altar, nor am I replete with devastating psychological scars from many a lonely February 14th sipping noodle