Category: Iran

Iran Denies Involvement, Blames Salman Rushdie Himself for Stabbing Attack

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates—An Iranian official Monday denied Tehran was involved in the stabbing of author Salman Rushdie, though he sought to justify the attack in the Islamic Republic’s first public comments on the bloodshed. The remarks by Nasser Kanaani, the spokesman for Iran’s Foreign Ministry, came three days after Rushdie was wounded in New…


After Rushdie Attack, Anyone Who Wants to Continue Iran Nuclear Deal Should Have Their Head Examined

Commentary Who could take seriously the endless negotiations and renegotiations of the Iran Deal, aka the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JPCOA)?   They were always a masquerade that played into the hands of the mullahs, allowing them more time for covert research in their campaign for nuclear weapons. All nations, starting with the United States’…


Author Salman Rushdie Attacked at NY Event, Has ‘Apparent Stab Wound’ in Neck: Police

Author Salman Rushdie, whose 1988 book led to death threats from the Iranian regime, was attacked during a lecture series in western New York, according to officials and witnesses. The New York State Police confirmed Rushdie, 75, may have been stabbed. Rushdie was taken via helicopter to a nearby hospital, and information about his condition was…


Russia Successfully Launches Iranian Satellite

MOSCOW—A Russian rocket on Tuesday successfully launched an Iranian satellite into orbit. The Soyuz rocket lifted off as scheduled at 8:52 a.m. Moscow time (05:52 GMT) Tuesday from the Russia-leased Baikonur launch facility in Kazakhstan. About nine minutes after the launch, it placed the Iranian satellite called Khayyam into orbit. It’s named after Omar Khayyam,…


Commerce Department Accuses Chinese Company of Illegally Shipping Equipment to Iran

The Department of Commerce accused China’s largest wire and cable manufacturer, Far East Cable, of violating export controls aimed at preventing the shipment of equipment to Iran. In a charging letter (file) issued July 29, the department said that Far East Cable committed 18 violations of U.S. export controls between 2014 and 2016. During that time,…


US Targets Chinese, UAE Firms in New Iran Oil Sanctions

WASHINGTON—The United States on Monday imposed sanctions on Chinese and other firms it said helped to sell tens of millions of dollars in Iranian oil and petrochemical products to East Asia as it seeks to raise pressure on Tehran to curb its nuclear program. The U.S. Treasury and the U.S. State Departments imposed sanctions on…


GOPers’ Bill Tells US National Labs to Polygraph Green Card-less Chinese, Russian Applicants

Two Republican senators introduced legislation on July 29 requiring the Department of Energy’s (DOE) National Laboratories to administer intelligence-grade polygraph tests to all applicants from nations on the State Department’s “Countries of Particular Concern” list and who lack green cards. The as-yet untitled legislative proposal, S. 4634, is co-sponsored by Sen. John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) and…


Iran Warns It ‘Has Technical Means to Produce Nuclear Bomb’ but It’s ‘Not on Agenda’

Iran’s nuclear chief warned on Aug. 1 that the country has the “technical ability” to produce an atomic bomb but reiterated previous remarks by Iranian officials that the country has no intention of doing so, despite social media accounts linked to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) threatening to produce nuclear warheads for missiles. Mohammad Eslami,…


Rescuers Search for Landslide and Flood Victims After Heavy Rain in Iran

Rescuers searched overflowing rivers and through piles of debris on Friday to try to find people missing after landslides and floods triggered by heavy rains in Iran, officials said. Mehdi Valipour, head of emergency operations at Iran’s Red Crescent Society, told state TV that 100 towns and 300 villages in 18 of Iran’s 31 provinces…


Iran, Washington, and the Magical Theater of Nuclear Weapons

Iran already has nuclear weapons capability, and possibly operational nuclear warheads and delivery systems and protocols. So why do successive U.S. administrations keep insisting that the United States will not permit Iran to acquire “a nuclear weapon?” Part of the reason lies in the belief that until the presence of nuclear weapons (in Iran or…