We were heartened by your earlier comments suggesting that an Obama administration would act on the understanding that genuine security requires a willingness to talk without preconditions (something Iran has offered several times to no avail), and that threats and military action are counterproductive. We hope you will follow through on these commitments once in office, but also that you will speak out now against any acts of war by the Bush administration. ››read more

In an interview with NPR on his latest New Yorker Article, the renowned investigative journalist, Seymour Hersh reveals further details of his findings. He explains that the aim of the US covert operations in Iran is to create a pretext for attacking Iran with the goal of regime change. He warns that the US military is ready to attack within 10 to 12 hours of the go ahead order by President Bush. He also reiterates that the US has been giving funds and arms to the terrorist MEK for years, reveals that the US has trained MEK teams in the state of Nevada and that MEK leaders have cashed the funds received from the US in their personal accounts in London. ››read more

Congressman Ron Paul has warned millions of radio listeners that the US is heading into a deadly confrontation with Iran, revealing his disbelief at members of Congress who have openly voiced support for a pre-emptive nuclear strike on the country. ››read more

What gives him the right to attempt to destabilize the government of another country covertly with our tax payers money because they refuse to be his vassal state. ››read more

Shami ChakrabartiIranian Deputy Foreign Minister Alireza Sheikh-Attar has urged the British government to release former Iranian envoy Nosratollah Tajik. ››read more

Markets have been watching every move of President Bush and the Israeli government to decipher whether war with Iran is in the making. Few expected, however, that the equivalent of a green light for war would come from our Democratic-controlled Congress. That is what Congress is preparing to do through a resolution calling for a de facto naval blockade in the Persian Gulf to prohibit Iran from importing refined petroleum products. ››read more

Washington has no interest in the imposition of a privatization program on Iran, as an "alternative" to an all out war. In fact quite the opposite. There are indications that the Bush adminstration's main objective is to stall the privatization program. ››read more

Iran delivered a "constructive" preliminary response Friday to a package of incentives meant to convince it to curtail parts of its nuclear program, European and Iranian officials said. ››read more

Large crowds of Shiites on Friday denounced the security pact Baghdad is negotiating with Washington for a long-term US military presence in violence-wracked Iraq. ››read more

United States is the most flagrant violator of NPT commitments, frequently intervening to prevent other NPT signatories from exercising their "inalienable rights" affirmed under the NPT to access nuclear energy for peaceful purposes, "without discrimination." ››read more

Iraq will be plunged into a new war if Israel or the US launches an attack on Iran, Iraqi leaders have warned. Iranian retaliation would take place in Iraq, said Dr Mahmoud Othman, the influential Iraqi MP. ››read more

Iran formally responded Friday to the 5+1 proposal of incentives aimed at resolving the impasse over the country’s nuclear program. The reeponse said “The time for negotiating from the condescending position of inequality has come to an end,” Earlier on Friday, Mr. Jalili told Mr. Solana by telephone that Iran’s government had prepared its reply “with a focus on common ground and a constructive view” ››read more

July 3rd marked the 20th anniversary of the shooting of an Iranian airliner by the US guided missile cruiser USS Vincennes killing all its 290 passengers. Given the significance of this event and the graphic memory it has left in the Iranian psyche, an apology by US officials now, may well be an important step in inducing the Iranian government into announcing its readiness for rapprochement with the US. ››read more

Paul RogersThe architects of the "war on terror" in the George W Bush administration will soon be leaving office. But the four months until the United States presidential election on 4 November 2008 could be momentous. In Iraq and Iran, what happens in the next four months - or does not happen - will shape events in the next four years and even beyond. ››read more

Pioneer of predictive real-world markets, Max Keiser, in Paris talks to Afshin Rattansi in Tehran about oil, the U.S. economy and changing financial probability markets on the chance of an airstrike on Iran ››read more

With respect to the nuclear negotiations, Mottaki indicated that the recent Tehran trip of European Union's foreign policy chief, Javier Solana, was "serious and somewhat different from the past" and emphasized the "common points" between Iran's package and the "Iran Six" package of incentives and added that he was happy that the latter nations had viewed Iran's package "positively". ››read more

In a moving statement, a group of academics from Iranian universities have expressed their strong opposition to the intensifying economic sanctions against Iran and the harmful suspense of “neither war, nor peace”, demanding unequivocal and long-lasting peace. ››read more

Rostam PourzalPhil WilaytoResponding to a call by a new network named the National Assembly to End the Iraq War and Occupation, some 300 anti-war leaders from a broad array of U.S.-based organizations gathered in Cleveland, Ohio, June 28 and 29. The main goal of the conference was to mobilize the antiwar movement for a mass protest next spring with the demand of immediate withdrawal of all U.S. forces from Iraq. But the conference also adopted a resolution Preventing an attack on Iran, after campaigners raised the issue. ››read more

Iran warned Wednesday of a fierce response and radically higher oil prices if the country were attacked, but also signaled possible progress in its five-year nuclear standoff with the West. ››read more

Larijani and SolanaIran says it is ready to publish documents which would prove the West has broken the promises it made during nuclear talks with Iran. ››read more