One of the country’s oldest cities and host to a uranium enrichment facility, Isfahan, Iran, was rocked by an explosion yesterday and reports have indicated that the explosion occurred at military facilities in the city. Speculation has arisen that the attack was carried out as part of international actions against Iran’s nuclear program. Mehr News […]
Read MoreThe cabinet and the prime minister Sheikh Nasser al-Mohammad al-Sabah have submitted their resignations to the emir Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah after revelations of corruption surfaced within the government once again. Six previous governments have collapsed due to similar reasons but this time the crowds are imitating the regional phenomenon of the Arab Spring and using […]
Read MoreThe Iranian Defense Minister Brigadier General Ahmad Vahidi warned Israel that 150,000 missiles awaited its arrival should it dare to attack the Islamic republic. He also warned Israel that they would not survive war with Iran, reiterating the Ayatollah’s rhetoric from a few weeks ago. Vahidi also exhorted the United States to realize how mighty […]
Read MoreThe Islamic Republic of Iran’s parliament voted to remove the British ambassador to Iran as well as downgrade the republic’s economic ties to the U.K. The legislation needs approval from the Guardian Council before it can become law but this is not expected to be a hindrance to its final passage. These actions come after […]
Read MoreForeign Policy’s article “The Axis of No,” by Dmitri Trenin, argues that the events of the Arab Spring and the toppling of authoritarian regimes in the Middle East has contributed to a tightening of relations between the Chinese and Russians who have positioned themselves in opposition to United Nations’ backed maneuvers to aid the collapse […]
Read MoreThe Iranian regime has claimed to have arrested 12 undercover CIA agents within the Islamic republic. Iran’s state news agency Irna reported Parviz Sorouri, a member of Iran’s parliamentary committee on national security and foreign policy, as saying that the undercover agents were gathering information on Iran’s security, military and nuclear activities. Former U.S. officials […]
Read MoreThirty three years of dictatorship have come to an end today in Yemen. As reported earlier, President Ali Abdullah Saleh will step down from his seat immediately making him the fourth authoritarian ruler to have been ousted in the Arab Spring. Saleh signed an agreement in the Saudi Arabian capital of Riyadh, transferring power to […]
Read MoreThe nation of Yemen has been locked in a political crisis since January 2011. Negotiations between President Saleh’s regime and the opposition has reportedly led to an agreement for Ali Abdullah Saleh to transfer power to his deputy minister Abdrabuh Mansur Hadi in an act that will bring 33 years of uninterrupted rule over the […]
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